Libya: It’s a TOTAL war, monsieur

Call it the Friends of Libya war; the R2P war (as in “responsibility to protect” Western plunder); the Air France war; the Total war; anyway, the “friends” had a blast spinning their win in Libya, which magically is not in Africa anymore. It has been relocated (upgraded?) to Arabia.

Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey, by John Pilger

When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt.” Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged.” The language of colonialism may have been modified; the spirit and the hypocrisy are unchanged.

Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US?

The mass movement remains alert in both Tunisia and Egypt but is short of political instruments that reflect the general will. The first phase is over. The second, that of rolling back the movements, has begun.

SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention”

There is evidence of gross media manipulation and falsification from the outset of the protest movement in southern Syria on March 17th.

The Western media has presented the events in Syria as part of the broader Arab pro-democracy protest movement, spreading spontaneously from Tunisia, to Egypt, and from Libya to Syria.

Media coverage has focussed on the Syrian police and armed forces, which are accused of indiscriminately shooting and killing unarmed “pro-democracy” demonstrators. While these police shootings did indeed occur, what the media failed to mention is that among the demonstrators there were armed gunmen as well as snipers who were shooting at both the security forces and the protesters.

Libyan oil for foreigners and a Central Bank from thin air

By Ellen Brown
I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences.

Libya not only has oil. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its central bank has nearly 144 tonnes of gold in its vaults. With that sort of asset base, who needs the BIS, the IMF and their rules?

As the United Nations works feverishly to condemn Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi for cracking down on protesters, the body’s Human Rights Council is poised to adopt a report chock-full of praise for Libya’s human rights record.

Libya after the NATO invasion

Given the haste with which the no-fly resolution was passed at the UN Security Council, one may ask: How much evidence, aside from Gaddafi’s blood-curdling hyper-rhetoric, was there of an unfolding genocide or a ‘crime against humanity’ in Libya?

There is no business like war business: The US-Saudi Libya deal

By Pepe Escobar You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya (http://atimes NULL.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD02Ak01 NULL.html#). This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama  administration (http://atimes NULL.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD02Ak01 NULL.html#) and the House of Saud. Two diplomatic

West should get out of Libya, says John Pilger

WESTERN forces should get out of Libya, Australian journalist and documentary-maker John Pilger says.

“What the West should do is absolutely nothing,” Pilger told a small group of protesters in Sydney today.

“Stay away from other countries of the world, stay away from their resources, stay away from their people, let countries develop in their own way, let the Libyan people deal with (Libyan leader Muammar) Gaddafi.”

The US and its allies are not involved to free Libya from dictatorship but to secure their strategic interests in the area, Pilger said.

“This isn’t really about Libya … it’s about the US,” he said.

Libya: Another War We Shouldn’t Believe In

U.S. forces fired 110 cruise missiles at Libya on the first day of the war. The U.S. and its allies are destroying Libya’s air force in order to tip the balance in the civil war in favor of anti-Qadafi forces. But who are these anti-Qadafi forces? Rival tribes? Royalists? Radical Islamists? If anyone in the media or the White House knows, they’re not telling.

10 reasons to say no to western intervention in Libya

As NATO missiles rain on Libya… “The hypocrisy gives the game away. When the people of Bahrain rose against their US-backed monarchy and were cut down in the streets, there was no talk of action, even though the US sixth fleet is based there and could doubtless have imposed a solution.”