A Call for African Unity! Stop the US/NATO Bombing of Libya!

Economic basis for invasion

Africa is facing a criminal imperialist invasion of Libya, led by the foremost neo colonialist in Africa, the United States, and organized under the US Africa Command (Africom) and a 28 European nation military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This invasion is a desperate attempt to slow down the inevitable and rapidly approaching collapse of the American economy with its increasingly frequent economic crisis, recessions, and uncontrollable debt of $14.3 trillion dollars; which they can never pay.

This eminent collapse can be seen when we contrast the 1950’s and the anti communist House Committee on Un-American Activities mandated under Public Law 601 during the McCarthy era and “Red Scare,” in which America arrested and destroyed its own settler colonial citizens for being labeled communist affiliated and attempted to militarily overthrow foreign governments like the US embargoe of China in 1950 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. These policies contrast sharply from today in 2011, with America’s largest creditor being the Communist Party of China, which America owes nearly two trillion dollars (US Department of Treasury, 2011) and seeks to borrow more money and go into further debt; with China dominating the balance of trade between the two countries leading with $182.965 billion to America’s $49.553 billion from January to June of 2011 (US Census Bureau, Foreign Trade) .

According to the World Fact Book, 28 NATO countries owe foreign debts of a massive $48.74 trillion dollars, while 53 African Union Countries owe merely $338 billion dollars (World Development Indicators, World Bank). From this we can discover the economic motive of NATO is to break through Libyan security and capture its massive oil resources to fuel its invasion of Africa in order to accelerate the robbery and exploitation of Africa by military means to alleviate their overwhelming debt, while crushing Libya’s major moves for African economic independence. America has calculated this as the only way to forestall China’s influence and economic domination over them, block Chinese competition in Africa for resources, and to inject wealth into their economy which is like murdering an innocent healthy person to take their blood and inject it into a dying corpse. This is the new phase of neo-colonialism.

Action with thought

Africans worldwide must now mobilize and organize to confront and defeat America’s invasion of Libya at this historic point in history to accelerate Africa’s liberation, economic independence, and unity. We are calling on all Africans in every country in Africa and throughout the African world to confront American imperialism with demonstrations and “positive action” at every U.S. embassy in the world as a demonstration of power and unity on the 102nd birthday of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, the greatest African of the 20th century; the day is 21st September 2011. Osagyefo spent time in England and discovered its weak economy following World War II, then planned a political strategy with an economic offensive of boycotts, strikes, and demonstrations, “positive action,” to cripple England and win independence for Ghana on 6th March 1957. Today America’s economy is weak and in the spirit of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, we are calling on Africans to demonstrate, strike, and boycott, on 21st September 2011, in solidarity with Libya’s armed resistance, to win total independence for Africa.

We are also calling on the African Union to break all military pacts with NATO countries. We are calling on all Africans to “confiscate all assets” of NATO countries. We appeal to all the governments of the world that are against US/NATO hegemony, murder and pillage, to heed to the demand of the masses and apply economic sanctions on America and NATO countries to put a stop their madness. This can be done by in blocks like the African Union, Non Aligned Movement, Group of 77, Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Latin America, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and other regional and international groupings. Power comes from the organized working masses of the people and their labor, not the capitalist class and their dependence on disorganizing and exploiting the working masses labor for profit to maintain power.

Africa at a crossroad

Today Africa is at a crossroads facing, on the one hand, America’s Africa Command and US/NATO military occupation to further entrench neo colonialism. If successful, this will result in increased theft of Africa’s resources by the European capitalist class, greater exploitation of the African working masses, and the re-enforcement and strengthening of white supremacy in Africa. On the other hand, Africa faces the very real prospect of a military victory in Libya, the acceleration of a United States of Africa, the seizure of control over Africa’s resources and economy by the working masses under socialism, and the emergence of the African personality on the world stage.

Defend liberated zones

Libya is a “liberated zone” based on Kwame Nkrumah’s criteria from the zonal analysis in his book, “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare.” Libya therefore represents Africa’s future as a free and liberated continent. Libya secured its independence in 1969 by mass, anti imperialist armed struggle to bring a revolutionary and socialist Jamahiriya ‘authority of the masses’ to power. The puppet neo colonial monarch, King Idriss, was overthrown by force. Economic development, education, health care, housing, infrastructure, and human development were accelerated, with Libya having the highest living standard in Africa. Libya is totally independent of foreign economic interest. It has an independent ideology, outlined in the Green Book, and therefore the Libyan masses and leadership think for themselves.

Libya is leading the movement to establish an African Continental Government, with continental institutions like the African Monetary Fund, African Central Bank to establish a common gold currency, African Investment Bank, and African High Command. These institutions are being established and fueled by Libyan oil revenues to take economic control over Africa by Africans and to defeat American neo colonialism; the last stage of imperialism, once and for all. The starting budget to create this wealth mechanism was $42 billion, from which Libya as Africa's richest state put in $32 billion and other African states $10 billion. The $32 billion along with another estimated $150 billion of Libyan money in banks outside Libya was stolen by the U.S. and E.U. on the pretense that it was "Qaddafi's money". The project to free Africa from the World Bank and IMF is now impeded. Therefore, it is the sacred responsibility of every African to defend Libya to ensure a future of freedom and dignity for the generations of Africa, yet to be born. Now is the time!

Nkrumah-Toure-Qathafi

Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah succeeded in establishing a Pan Africanist and Socialist Republic of Ghana on 1st July 1960 with an 88% vote in a plebiscite and then with an unprecedented 99% vote in a referendum in 1964 (African Elections Database), this mass revolutionary policy was consolidated one year after declaring Ghana a Pan Africanist state with the declaration of the Union of African States on 1st July 1961, with Ghana, Guinea, and Mali creating a nucleus for the formation of a continental government for Africa. Today Qathafi is continuing the process by establishing socialism and taking control of the Libya’s resources, expelling the US, UK, and Italian military bases from Libya, supporting liberation movements in Africa and throughout the world, ceding total power to the masses of the people in 1977 by resigning as Libyan Head of State, and serving as the driving force to change the Organization of African Unity to the African Union as a step towards establishing an All African Union Government.
Imperialist/reactionary alliance is neo-colonialism

The United States CIA, NATO, and internal reactionaries who overthrew the “liberated zone” under Nkrumah’s government on 24 February 1966; “a day of national crime, sin, shame and anarchy,” invaded the “liberated zone” of Guinea in a failed attempt to overthrow Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah as co-Presidents in 1970, with NATO mercenaries. These are essentially the same forces invading Libya today. The difference is only tactical with the Libyan reactionaries mainly consisting of Al Qaeda religious terrorists, the Guinean invasion being spearheaded by Portuguese mercenary terrorists, while the anti Nkrumah reactionaries were National Liberation Movement and Mate Meho tribalist terrorists; all teleguided by US imperialism. This suggests any time an African country chooses Pan Africanism and socialism and works for Africa’s unity and control of its economy as a liberated zone, America will lead a subversive alliance, using violent and illegal means to overthrow the government to impose neo colonialism. They do this in order to maintain their criminal system of robbing Africa at the maximum rate of exploitation; normally applying the method of divide and conquer.

Lessons from the past

In the 1960’s America used the National Liberation Movement (NLM), Mate Meho tribalists (‘I’ve seperated myself’), and National Liberation Council (NLC) reactionary movements to violently overthrow the great Nkrumah after 15 years of resisting US backed subversion, assassination attempts on President Nkrumah, and killing of innocent women and children with bomb throwing at state events. Guinea learned from the lesson of Ghana, trained the population militarily, and fought off the NATO military invasion of 1970, plus many imperialist intrigues to hold power as a liberated zone for 26 years; until the counter revolution after Sekou Toure’s death in 1984. Today America uses the Sanussi monarchists, Al Qaeda terrorists (Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi), CIA agents (Abdoulgassim Khalifa Hafter), and corrupt government Officials (Mustafa Abdul Jalil) to launch a counter revolution in Libya after being a liberated zone for 42 years. Since African liberated zones are lasting longer and becoming stronger, these reactionary elements cannot succeed. Therefore, America had to bring a 28 European nation NATO armed invasion to back up the local reactionaries with constant aerial bombing.

We conclude from these facts that African liberated zones have advanced militarily to the point of being able to challenge American imperialism and that neo colonialism is at its weakest point and it is desperate to hold onto Africa’s resources to delay its inevitable collapse. This becomes crystal clear when we witness a liberated zone of 6 million people in Libya defeating the internal reactionaries and the US/NATO alliance of over 28 European nations and militaries at the same time even during the month of Muslim fasting.

US war is against Africa

When Africans confront the enemy worldwide we will definitely turn the invasion into a victory for Africa and a turning point for Africa’s total liberation and Unity. It’s time to make the move!

The African Union has taken a position for the Libyan governments right to repress the terrorist counter-revoluitonaries of the NTC and against the NATO invasion of Libya in the African Union Peace and Security Council, and as an entire AU continental body; which has maintained its refusal to recognize the National Transitional Council as the government of Libya (despite NATO pressure). The Chairman of the AU Peace and Security Council, Zimbabwe President Mugabe has boldly called NATO a terrorist organization, likened to Al Qaeda. Because of neo colonial influences on most of Africa’s leadership, the US and NATO are disregarding the AU’s position with contempt and utter disrespect. This is why the African masses must confront US neo colonialism without fear. We are calling for a “US/NATO Hands Off Libya” coalition to be formed throughout Africa to defeat the US/NATO invasion of Libya as a step toward uniting Africa with a continental government and a socialist economic system to win economic independence; taking full control over Africa’s resources! Revolutionary Pan Africanist Kwame Ture Stated,

“Africa is our Mother! And if you throw bombs at our Mother, as Africa is our Mother, we will throw bombs at you! ...When you bomb Libya you’re not getting a limited war! This war, like Africa’s children, whom you have scattered all over the world, knows no boundaries! Anywhere there is an African, there will be war for Africa!”

The time is now!

We in the Pan African Improvement Organization are calling on all Africans in Africa to use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations. Africans in Europe use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations. Africans in Central, South America, and the Caribbean use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations. Africans in America use Positive Action and converge on government buildings inside America with demonstrations. All allies of Africa, we are asking you to use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations, not only against the US/NATO bombing of Libya, but also against the illegal US/EU sanctions on Zimbabwe, US illegal military invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and aggressions towards Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and countless other acts of military aggression and crimes against sovereign nations and people of the world. Let us together end US hegemony; BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!

Victory to Muammar Qathafi!

Victory to the Libyan Jamahiriya!

Forward to an African Union Government under Socialism!

Death to US/NATO hegemony!

Forward to the African Revolution!

By Akili Secka, Chairman of Education and Culture on the People's Committee of the Pan African Improvement Organization - email: panafrimprv@yahoo.com

LIBYA 25/08/2011 - LA GUERRA DE LIBIA RECIEN COMIENZA: MILLONES EN EL MUNDO Y EN AUXILIO DEL PUEBLO LIBIO

LA GUERRA DE LIBIA RECIEN COMIENZA:

...MILLONES EN EL MUNDO Y EN AUXILIO DEL PUEBLO LIBIO Y SUS PETICIONES Y SUS PRERROGATIVAS EN JUSTO DERECHO, HACEMOS UN LLAMADO DE RECOMPENSA PARA ADDEL JALIL, REPRESENTANTE DEL CNT Y A CADA UNO DE SU SEQUITO. EL PUEBLO LIBRE, DEMOCRATICO Y LEAL DE LIBIA SE COMPROMETE A PAGAR POR ESTA RATA TRAIDORA Y CUALQUIER OTRA, SEA VIVO O MUERTO. Y POR LAS SIGUIENTES ATENUANTES:

-1) الإبادة الجماعية!، 2) تدمير ونهب ليبيا!، 3)العرقية التطهير!، 4) دخول الارهابيين والمرتزقةللترهيب ، وسرقة واغتصاب! 5)دعوة مفتوحة للاغتيالات السياسية والاحتلال! 6) منحة مفتوحة منأصول ليبية والمواردمن الدول الأجنبية والشركات!، 7) الخيانة والتجسس ! قوى الشر الأجنبية، 8)مؤامرة أدت إلى التطورات في أزمة -- وكاذبة تقارير وسائل الاعلام من عمليات القتل على يدالقناصةحلف شمال الاطلسي لمواطنين ليبيين -- إلقاء اللوم على الحكومة وزعزعة الاستقراروجلبقرار كاذبة 9) الرعب والوحشية! قتل المدنيين والسجناء، 10) اغتصاب وحشيوقتل النساء --! بمنفيهم الأطفال، 11) للحصول على أي دولة أخرى معروفة وغير معروفة حتى جرائم المتمردينوالمرتزقة والارهابيين ومنظمة حلف شمال الأطلسي (أنهاتتحمل المسؤولية عن جميع أعضاءالمجلس من الفئران! -- الملك لا سيما -- الجرذ)!!! نفعل ذلك! أعلنت جوائز لهؤلاء الارهابيينوالخونة والعملاء! دعونا يشعرون بأنهم مهددون.... حتى المتمردين!!!!!!!!

Spanish Traslate:

Cargos -1) GENOCIDIO!, 2) la destrucción y saqueo de Libia!, 3) limpieza étnica!, 4) la entrada de terroristas y mercenarios para aterrorizar, robar y la violación! 5) Convocatoria de asesinatos políticos y la ocupación! 6) una donación libre de los bienes libios y los recursos de los países extranjeros y corporaciones!, 7) por traición y espionaje ! exterior las fuerzas del mal, 8) La asociación llevó todevelopments en la crisis - y los informes de los medios de comunicación falsa de los asesinatos cometidos por francotiradores de la OTAN a los ciudadanos libios - a culpar al gobierno y desestabilizar y traer falsa resolución 9) el terror y el asesinato brutal de civiles y prisioneros,! 10) Brutal violación y asesinato de mujeres - en particular los niños, 11) para cualquier otro conocido y notknown a los crímenes de los insurgentes, terroristas, mercenarios y de la OTAN (que tienen la responsabilidad de todos los miembros de la Junta de ratas -! especialmente el rey - Rata) ! ¡Hazlo! anuncia premios para estos traidores, andpuppets terroristas! Vamos a sentirse amenazados .... incluso los rebeldes !!!!!

Ingles Traslate:

1) GENOCIDE!, 2) the destruction and pillaging of Libya!, 3) ethnic cleansing!, 4) entry of terrorists and mercenaries to terrorize, rob and rape! 5) Open call for political assassinations and occupation! 6) an open donation of Libyan assets and resources of foreign countries and corporations!, 7) treason and spying foreign evil forces!, 8) Conspiracy led todevelopments in the crisis - and false media reports of killings by NATO snipers Libyan citizens to - to blame the government and destabilizing and bringing false resolution! 9) terror and brutal killings of civilians and prisoners!, 10) Brutal rape and murder of women - including children !!! , 11) for any other known and notknown unto crimes insurgents, terrorists, mercenaries and NATO (they bear responsibility for all members of the Board of rats)! Do it! Announced awards for these traitors, terrorists andpuppets! Let's feel threatened .... even the rebels!!!!!

Libia/Guerra: A união de África como base da estabilidade política, económica e militar

Líbia/Neo-colonialismo 2011: O continente africano necessita de uma liderança forte, que seja exemplo de democracia e de unidade (nacional e continental), que inspire os mais jovens a amarem e lutarem pela própria terra assim como pelos próprios direitos. Segundo a literatura política, e nisto Marx foi um pioneiro, cada povo tem o governo que merece, sobretudo ali aonde este (povo) pode escolher os próprios representantes. O Silêncio da classe política africana diante dos massacres em Líbia - por parte da OTAN - é tal e qual a posição de uma grande parte dos povos africanos. Muitos são contrários, mas pouco exprimem o própria contrariedade. Reflexos condicionados, desorientamento provocado pela desinformação, desinteresse por questão mais abrangentes, egoísmo agudo que é fruto de uma ocidentalização doentia.

O SILÊNCIO ELOQUENTE - Analisando o percurso da maior parte dos presidentes africanos se notam vários pontos em comum, mas um destes pontos é o mais saliente: o poder lhe foi conferido pela gente, mas oferecido pela ex-potência colonizadora num contexto de influência ocidental. Os países francófonos dependem em modo absurdo da política francesa em África, e aqueles anglófonos, da política inglesa e americana. Raramente um empregado discute com patrão. Neste contexto de colonização avançada, a palavra deve passar aos mais jovens, àqueles que crêem na possibilidade de uma África verdadeiramente independente, começando pela independência económica, o Cavalo de Troia da nova-colonização. Os jovens africanos (dentro e fora da política) devem guiar um novo processo de desenvolvimento nacional e continental, e para fazer-lo devem usar as próprias cabeças. Eu proponho: entrem em política. A política é o instrumento através do qual se gerem os vários interesses presentes em uma sociedade. Política, Política, Política.

O FUTURO É O PRESENTE - Considerando o actual nível de desenvolvimento cultural da maior parte dos países africanos, se pode concluir que um eventual (auto-isolamento) do continente, para fins de reorganização das políticas internas e externas, tendo em conta o actual reequilíbrio do poder mundial seria bem-vindo. Como as grandes caminhadas começam com um passo, a democratização dos Estados africanos deve constituir o primeiro passo desta grande mudança. Mas como sabemos, isto não acontece em dois dias, há que se programar, projectar e realizar, etc. É neste ponto aonde todos os jovens, JOVENS e adulto são chamados a colaborar, a juntos trabalharem pelo bem dos respectivos países. Eu proponho: entrem em política. A política é o instrumento através do qual se gerem os vários interesses presentes em uma sociedade. Política, Política, Política. Cada um seguindo o partido que mais o representa, mas tendo em consideração que própria presença e acção vigorosa pode mudar a estrada da organização na qual se faz parte.

A LEI DO AGORA - Há quem diz que os jovens são o futuro de um país, mas se esquece que são também a força de mudança do presente. As grandes revoluções foram feitas por jovens, até mesmo as lutas pelas independências africanas foram guiadas por jovens, gente fresca e com grandes ideais. Gente capaz de riscar, gente que chega a dar a própria vida por ideais superiores ao do consumismo egoístico que está matando Angola/África. Falando de luta, se espera que ninguém chegue a extremos, nas condições de decidir sobre viver o ou morrer, porque cada um nós vale mais vivo do que morto. Os mortos por ideias superiores têm um valor simbólico que chega a mover montanhas, mas falemos de vida, viver e trabalhar para melhorar vida dos irmãos de sangue e de pátria, seja esta nacional ou continental.

ÁFRICA NOSSA PÁTRIA - Segundo um ditado africano, "quando vês a lavra do vizinho queimar vás súbito ajudar-lo, porque o mesmo foto bem cedo vai lamber a tua colheita". Além do orgulho doentio dos africanos em querer diferenciar-se, temos significativas práticas e costumes iguais, para não citar o destino: ditaduras, subdesenvolvimentos, ingerências, neo-colonialismo, etc. Quem viaja pela África Sugsahariana veja sempre as mesmas coisas - estamos no mesmo barco. Assim sendo, é do nosso interesse que nos preocupemos pela unidade do continente, aprendamos mais línguas para poder entender os problemas dos outros países assim como partilhar as soluções que se encontram de povo em povo. O interesse depende de cada um de nós, temos que deixar de culpar a classe política, os meios de informação, é sempre culpa dos outros. BASTA! O futuro de África depende dos africanos, todos repetem estas palavras, mas poucos trabalham para a sua concretização.
Aos estudantes universitários, mais colaborações entre associações e faculdades. Às ONG's, mais colaborações e interesse entre as outras congéneres africanas. Ás igrejas, mais encontros regionais e continentais. AOS POLÍTICOS, sobretudo os jovens, mais interesse pelas questões regionais e continentais. União dos partidos e encontros regio-continentais. Tudo depende das nossas acções. África é a berço da humanidade, por isso creio que devemos ainda descobrir as nossas verdadeiras potencialidade. Comecemos trabalhando pelas democracias nas nossas casas, trabalhos, partidos, escolas. QUEM CONSEGUE GERIR O POUCO, é mais preparado a gerir as grandes quantidades. África hoje e sempre.

Caríssimos/as, entrem em política, porque a qualidade de vida de um país depende da qualidade da classe política que a governa. A política é o instrumento através do qual se gerem os vários interesses presentes em uma sociedade. Política, Política, Política. Cada um seguindo o partido que mais o representa, mas tendo em consideração que própria presença e acção vigorosa pode mudar a estrada da organização na qual se faz parte.

 

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Libya: A Children’s War

 

Khalid Hallil was inside his house three miles from the centre. His left thigh is torn from knee to crotch. His father Hamid speaks English: “Metal just came from everywhere. Believe me, there were no soldiers in the area. Only civilians. There was no reason for attacking us in our homes. No justification for this murderous act. Tell your countrymen what is happening.“

This is what your Democrat/Republican/Progressive state legislators support, Blood for Oil… via last May’s disgraceful JRH51: Joint resolution supporting the assignment of the F-35 aircraft to the Vermont Air National Guard… rushed through the legislature in a closed vote, at which no Vermonters were permitted to testify.

I don’t think we can stop Washington, DC from any war that it wishes to fight, nor do I believe that Welch, Sanders & Leahy can be compelled by their constituents to obey their oaths of office, and stop supporting these unconstitutional, brutal and unforgivable wars and occupations. But we CAN stop Vermont’s participation in, and funding of these wars: keep the F-35 out… bring the Vermont Guard home, bills to bring home ALL our kids placed in harms way… and the world will notice.

To do this we must vote out the incumbents, starting with the Vermont Senate. 30 seats. We can do it, will you run with us? I’m recruiting senators… the pay’s decent, we’ve got six so far.

Here’s the real story of the latest war. I apologise in advance for the disturbing imagery, but it’s the truth about what the US and its NATO allies do: constantly grabbing for more and more resources that belong to others… as the children suffer and die.

The most telling part is the Times quote at the end of the article:

Colonel Qaddafi proved to be a problematic partner for the international oil companies, frequently raising fees and taxes and making other demands. A new government with close ties to NATO may be an easier partner for Western nations to deal with. Some experts say that given a free hand, oil companies could find considerably more oil in Libya than they were able to locate under the restrictions placed by the Qaddafi government.

Fierce fighting continues in Tripoli
By Bill Van Auken
23 August 2011
Source: Military Industry Today on military.einnews.com

Fierce fighting raged into the night in Tripoli Monday, even as leaders of the major Western powers proclaimed the end of the 42-year-old regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and maneuvered for position in the scramble for Libya’s oil wealth.

After their surprisingly rapid advance into the Libyan capital, the armed groups backed by NATO have encountered stiff resistance from forces loyal to the Gaddafi regime. The crowds that initially greeted the so-called “rebels” melted away and streets remained largely deserted as the two sides exchanged automatic weapons fire as well as mortar and anti-aircraft rounds.

Heavy fighting continued around Gaddafi’s fortified Bab al-Aziziya presidential compound, while smoke billowed over sections of the city. A spokesman for the NATO-backed Transitional National Council (TNC) based in Benghazi predicted that the fortified compound would not fall easily and fighting there would be “fierce.” The huge Tripoli compound has been subjected to heavy bombardment by NATO warplanes.

While the TNC has claimed to control between 80 and 90 percent of the Libyan capital, reporters in the city have described the situation as “fluid,” and few checkpoints have been set up to secure the streets.

BBC correspondent Orla Guerin reported that east of Tripoli “the battle is not over,” and that the Benghazi-based militias had been blocked from entering the capital by loyalist forces holding the highway near the coastal town of Zlitan, about 80 miles east of the capital. While captured on Friday by the TNC forces, the town came under a counterattack from government troops on Monday.

 

Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told journalists late Sunday that 1,300 Libyans had died in the capital over the previous 24 hours as a result of the fighting and NATO air strikes. Another 5,000 were reported injured.

While launched under the pretense of protecting civilians from the repression of the Gaddafi regime, the US-NATO war has since claimed far more victims than were threatened by Gaddafi’s security forces and, in its final stages, has involved major war crimes, including the heavy bombardment and use of Apache attack helicopters in Tripoli, a city of 2 million.

The BBC quoted a Tripoli resident as reporting that the NATO-backed guerrillas were “breaking into people’s houses, stealing everything.” He predicted that the siege of the capital would be “a disaster for Libya and NATO.”

 

While the speed of the NATO-backed force’s entry into Tripoli was no doubt facilitated by the internal collapse of Gaddafi’s corrupt and dictatorial regime, reports published Monday in both the New York Times and the Washington Post made it clear that the advance of the “rebels” had been directed, both on the ground and in the air, by the Western powers intervening in the oil-rich North African country.

As the Washington Post reported, the success of the siege of Tripoli was the result of a strategy implemented by “British, French and Qatari special forces on the ground” as well as “an earlier decision by the Obama administration to share additional intelligence on the positions of Libyan government forces.”

Citing NATO as well as US military and intelligence sources, the Post said the operation was designed to “create a ‘pincer,’ driving forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi back from all directions to protect Tripoli. In the process, government troops would provide clear targets for NATO air strikes and the roads would be clear for the rebel advance.”

 

 

“The targeting shifted toward Tripoli over the last four or five days as the regime forces moved back…and the target set [in the capital] became larger,” a senior NATO official told the Post. In other words, the function of the “rebels” was largely to push the Gaddafi forces into a position where they could be slaughtered from the air.

The report also makes it clear that the US played a crucial role in this process by providing NATO warplanes as well as French and British special operations units on the ground with detailed satellite imagery as well as intelligence intercepts from the National Security Agency, allowing for far more accurate and rapid targeting of Libyan government troops.

Asked about charges that, in violation of the United Nations resolution, NATO was acting essentially as the air force of the “rebels,” the NATO official acknowledged that “the effect of what we were doing was not dissimilar.”

The New York Times also quoted US and NATO officials who cited “an intensification of American aerial surveillance in and around the capital city” as the “major factor in helping to tilt the balance after months of steady erosion of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s military.” The newspaper reported that “coordination between NATO and the rebels” had become “more sophisticated and lethal in recent weeks.” It also credited the fact that “Britain, France and other nations deployed special forces on the ground inside Libya.”

 

Meanwhile, the Pentagon released figures Monday showing that the US military had doubled its air strikes in Libya over the past 12 days. While between April 1 and August 10 US warplanes were carrying out on average 1.7 strikes a day, since August 10 they have risen to 3.1 air strikes, with close to half of them being carried out by pilotless Predator drones.

The cost to the US of the military intervention in the North African country is fast approaching $1 billion, CNN reported Monday.

According to the most recent poll by the television news network, only 35 percent of the American public supported the war, with 60 percent opposing the US intervention in Libya.

Interrupting his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, President Barack Obama proclaimed that the events in Tripoli made it clear that “Gaddafi’s rule is over” and called for an “inclusive transition that will lead to a democratic Libya.”

The president vowed that Washington would be Libya’s “friend and a partner.” He continued, “We will join with allies and partners to continue the work of safeguarding the people of Libya.” He said his administration was in discussion with NATO and the United Nations to “determine other steps that we can take.”

The Wall Street Journal quoted US military commanders Monday as saying that, while they believe an international “peacekeeping” force will be needed in Libya, “The Obama administration has made clear to its allies that they shouldn’t expect American troops to participate.”

The Journal cited government officials who said the Pentagon “would like to establish a security-assistance presence in a new Libya. This could include military-liaison officers, as well as American trainers who would work with Libyan security forces.”

Among those calling for the US to put “boots on the ground” in the aftermath of Gaddafi’s ouster is Richard Haass, the former State Department official and current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who was initially critical of the US intervention. In an opinion piece published by the Financial Times of London, Haass writes: “NATO’s airplanes helped bring about the rebel victory. The ‘humanitarian’ intervention introduced to save lives believed to be threatened was in fact a political intervention introduced to bring about regime change.

“Now NATO has to deal with its own success. Some sort of international assistance, and most likely an international force, is likely to be needed for some time to restore and maintain order… Most importantly, US President Barack Obama may need to reconsider his assertion that there would not be any American boots on the ground; leadership is hard to assert absent participation.”

Afghan men peer into a car carrying a dead Afghan child in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Villagers in southern Afghanistan claimed an overnight air strike by international forces killed several civilians, including children. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel also called for international action in Libya. “We must quickly create political structures which will enable a transition from the current situation into a peaceful, democratic and free society,” she said.

While Germany abstained on the United Nations Security Council vote authorizing the imposition of a “no-fly zone” in Libya and refused to provide warplanes for the air strikes, the country’s defense minister, Thomas de Maiziere, told the daily Rheinische Post that the Merkel government would consider sending troops for a “peacekeeping” operation after Gaddafi’s removal from power. “Should the Bundeswehr be asked to join in, we will review such a request constructively,” he said.

For his part, French President Nicolas Sarkozy invited the head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, to Paris for consultations, while Foreign Minister Alain Juppe announced that France would convene a meeting of the Libyan “contact group,” which also includes Britain, the US, Qatar and representatives of the UN and other international bodies.

In London, British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a statement outside of No. 10 Downing Street proclaiming that Britain would do all it could to “support the will of the Libyan people, which is for an effective transition to a free, democratic and inclusive Libya.” The first priority, he added, was “to establish security in Tripoli.”

After praising the role of the British pilots who relentlessly bombed Libya over the past five months, Cameron added a note of false modesty: “This has not been our revolution, but we can be proud that we have played our part.”

On the contrary, the so-called “revolution” has in fact been a coup sponsored by the major imperialist powers working with the big energy conglomerates and executed by US, British and French military and intelligence. Using the upheavals in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia as cover, and a “humanitarian” mission as pretext, these powers launched a colonial-style war with the aim of toppling the Gaddafi regime and installing a more pliant client regime in Tripoli.

Behind all of the talk about aiding “democracy” and providing assistance, these powers and the major oil companies whose interests they promote are now scrambling to get as big a share as possible in a new carve-up of Libya’s oil reserves, the largest on the African continent.

A spokesman for the ACOCO oil firm created by the “rebels” with NATO’s backing announced on Monday that a post-Gaddafi regime would reorder contracts to the benefit of the Western powers and at the expense of their rivals.

“We don’t have a problem with Western countries like Italians, French and UK companies,” said the spokesman, Abdeljalil Mayouf. “But we have some political issues with Russia, China and Brazil.” The three latter countries abstained on the UN Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force and voiced opposition to the US-NATO intervention.

All three countries have billions of dollars in investments in Libya. Prior to the US-NATO war, there were 75 Chinese companies operating in Libya, employing 36,000 workers on some 50 projects. Russian companies, including the oil firms Gazprom Neft and Tatneft, had operated in the country, and Brazil’s state-owned energy conglomerate Petrobras and construction firm Odebrecht were also involved in major deals there.

“We have lost Libya completely,” Aram Shegunts, director general of the Russia-Libya Business Council, told Reuters.

“Our companies won’t be given the green light to work there,” he added. “If anyone thinks otherwise, they are wrong. Our companies will lose everything because NATO will prevent them from doing their business in Libya.”

Meanwhile, major European oil companies saw their stock prices rise precipitously on expectations that they would reap bonanzas from renegotiated deals with a NATO-installed regime in Libya. ENI, Italy’s government-created oil multinational, led the way with a 7 percent rise.

Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, reported that ENI representatives had already arrived in Libya to survey prospects for renewed exploitation of the country’s oil resources. Before the war, ENI had the largest operations of any foreign oil corporation in Libya. Frattini predicted that after a new regime was installed there would be “great opportunities” for Italian corporations.

Italy exercised brutal colonial rule over Libya from 1911 to 1943, killing off half the country’s population in its suppression of resistance.

The Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp. announced on Monday that it has also been in talks with the “rebels” about resuming exploitation of the Waha oil fields, located in Libya’s Sirte basin.

The British daily Telegraph reported Monday that “Both David Cameron and President Sarkozy are anxious to reap the rewards for the NATO air offensive by ensuring that British or French companies are in the vanguard of the international effort to help the new regime restore law and order and rebuild the economy.” Both governments, the newspaper said, are conducting a “dialogue” with the TNC on infrastructure projects and “lining up construction and other infrastructure companies to be ready with bids.”

In an article titled “The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins,” the New York Times provided a frank justification for the US-NATO “humanitarian” war:

“Colonel Qaddafi proved to be a problematic partner for the international oil companies, frequently raising fees and taxes and making other demands. A new government with close ties to NATO may be an easier partner for Western nations to deal with. Some experts say that given a free hand, oil companies could find considerably more oil in Libya than they were able to locate under the restrictions placed by the Qaddafi government.”

Children are victims of US/NATO aggression. Where are your Vermont Legislators, besides closing schools to better support

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Fake Social Media Messages Led To War Against Libya on 22 Aug. 2011, by Marinella Correggia

The mother of all lies was sent to the world through a twitter message by Al Arabiya, February 23th. A message which makes Qadafi out to be a Hitler, and even more outrageous and cruel: "the repression in Libya has already claimed 10,000 dead and 50,000 injured."

It may be a ballon d'essai to check if the world was able to swallow it; it did: Even the progressive people in Europe said:

"We must stop the genocide."

"Bengazi is like Guernica."

But who is the source of this news? It was the terrorist rebels indeed (who kept repeating it): Al Arabyia says it received the news from "Sayed al Shanuka, Libyan member of the International Criminal Court, who was interviewed from Paris"

February 24th, just one day after the "genocide news," the International Criminal Court dismisses that man: "A clarification on media information regarding the ICC position on the Libyan situation is necessary. Various media sources have published information regarding the situation in Libya attributed to Mr Sayed Al Shanuka (or El-Hadi Shallouf), presented as a "member of the International Criminal Court" (ICC).

The ICC wishes to clarify that this person is neither a staff member nor counsel currently practicing before it, and by no means can he speak on behalf of the Court. Any declaration he made is given solely in his personal capacity.

The only official position to date is the ICC Prosecutor's statement, published on 23 February 2011. The decision to seek justice in Libya should be taken by the Libyan people. Currently, the Libyan State is not a Party to the Rome Statute. Therefore, intervention by the ICC on the alleged crimes committed in Libya can occur only if the Libyan authorities accept the jurisdiction of the Court, (through article 12(3) of the Rome Statute).

In the absence of such a step, the United Nations Security Council can decide to refer the situation to the Court. The Office of the Prosecutor will act only after either decision is taken."

But nobody seems to notice this official statement.

A few days later, March 3rd, it is Ali Zeidan's turn, a self-appinted spokesperson from the Libyan League for Human Rights which always, only from Paris, presents more terrifying data: 6,000 victims (3,000 in Tripoli, 2,000 in Benghazi, 1,000 elsewhere). But Zeidan's denunciation is not published in the LLHT website, and by the way Zeidan is not the president nor the director: another fake source. Zeidan is indeed a spokesperson of Benghazi terrorists. And he is the same Zeidan who, on March 23rd, stated: "In future oil agreements, we will remember those who helpd us" (by bombing more!).

It is indeed this data, 10,000 or 6,000 victims in a few days of protests, plus those allegedly "injured by Qadafi," which is taken as gold by the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

(But when in June the chief Prosecutor Ocampo issues a warrant for the three, the figure is no longer 6,000 but 208).

No matter, it is the huge figure which is used as the basis for the UN resolutions and for the war. The assumption is that if, in few days, "Qadafi killed so many people, what will happen if Libyan tanks enter Benghazi?" Indeed Dennis Ross, the White House political advisor, then stated: "Up to 100,000 people could be killed and everybody will blame us if we don't intervene."

This is what the UN resolutions and the war are based on... a tweet from a fake source.

(By the way, even in former wars in the past 20 years, there were fake smoking guns: incubators switched off in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers; weapons of mass destruction, mass graves and girls crying in front of a camera that they escaped death or rape).

About Marinella Correggia - Ecopeace activist since 1991, author, committed now against the awful NATO war against Libya

Facebook ao (Círculo Angolano Intelectual) – As manifestações em Angola e possíveis consequências.

Vamos falar de Angola, mas deixando de lado os rancores e ódios facilmente controláveis/manipuláveis por interesses externos. Para quem viveu em Angola durantes os últimos trinta anos sabe o que é uma guerra e sabe também que o sentimento do ódio/justiça pelas próprias mãos nos leva a comportar-se no modo mais animalesco que podemos conceber. Durante a guerra, quando perdes alguém, o sentimento de defesa cresce, e em pouco te tornas num defensor das batalhas, até daquelas que perderás "mal e porcamente". Com as guerras não se brincam. (Se depender de certas potências ocidentais, veremos uma guerra em Síria e quando tudo voltar a normalidade ninguém assumirá as responsabilidades do sangue derramado).

O Circulo Angolano Intelectual (CAI) não deve tornar-se num muro de lamentações e insultos inúteis, mas sim erguer-se como instrumentos de debates (sérios) sobre os métodos melhores para melhorar Angola. Falemos de Angola, falemos de nós mesmos, dos nossos problemas, das nossas feridas crónicas, mas com sugestões reais, praticáveis... Porque risco é aquele de tornar-se num lugar aonde a raiva se multiplica, o despreso cria ninhos, os projectos mortais se desenvolvem, etc. O conhecimento da agricultura de base nos ensina que a árvore que não cresce morre, a semente que não brota apodrece. O CAI tem tudo para germinar, crescer e tornar-se num actor importante, mas o tempo é este.

Tinha lido - aqui no CAI - propostas relativas ao melhoramento da educação em Angola, mas não vejo as conclusões. Vi várias iniciativas, mas não as conclusões. Tem que se concluir, tudo deve ter um ponto final, ou então nunca se farão propostas válidas. Uma vez concluídas, o que fazer? Alguém deve se responsabilizar de modos a fazer chegar em várias instituições. Temos a internet, o correios internacionais, etc.

Atenção, atenção, atenção com o complexo de superioridade cultural. Muitos compatriotas, "saccentes sábios das democracias parlamentares ocidentais" crêem tudo saber, uma atitude não côngrua com o espírito do CAI, visto que não contribui na melhoraria do nível dos debates. Não nos limitemos a falar dos buracos nas estradas do Cazenga, das cucas a venda a Avenida Brasil, das boates que fecharam por falta de energia... temos que ir além, temos que crescer, temos investigar e discutir sobre as origem (causas), assim como propor vias de resolução: cidadania activa.

Outra questão não menos importante é a diversificação dos debates: Angola não é Luanda. O CAI abraçando Angola deveria motivar tb os debates sobre questões das províncias, qual é o "Status Questionis" relativo ao desenvolvimento das províncias, dos municípios, das comunas, das aldeias e Vilas? Quais as informações ao nosso dispor? Os moderadores deveriam ajudar na focalização dos temas a serem debatidos, porque "quem o mundo abraça, nada aperta".

Para terminar, gostaria de repetir as palavras ilustres palavras do Clement Atlee, segundo o qual "A democracia é uma forma de governo que prevê a livre discussão, mas que só é atingida se as pessoas pararem de falar." Parar de falar, para passar a prática. A democracia começa em casa, nas igrejas, no trabalho, nas nossas relações. Que cada um se mata ao trabalho aonde se encontra: as escolhas que fazemos em cada momento contribui para a democracia, porque a vida é feita de pequenas escolhas, começando por escolher as cores que vestiremos nos próximos dias.

O que cada um de nós pode fazer por Angola? O que estamos fazendo? O que gostaríamos de fazer? O que faremos nos próximos dias, semanas, meses?
Tenho dito.

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