Libya: A new war for oil - the history and truth, Part 4
Muammar Gaddafi is / was most recently president of the African Union (AU), another elite organization in the service operating in the West - or directed by a gang of robbers, at least, that any property that any another, and then nobody will ever challenge the way things are - while the people, the masses of Africa, around the world suffer.
The African Union (AU) have signed with Washington for the devastating neo-liberal trade and the agreement of the euphemistically known as the rate of growth in Africa and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Special Report of the AU on the genocide in Rwanda was a mantle full-service United States / United Kingdom and the interests of protecting the dictator Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni. The African Union has also been slammed by African leaders for inaction and silence in the various developments on the continent.
The former president of the African Union have included some of the bloodiest dictators in Africa, as Dennis Sassou-Nguesso, who ruled with absolute brutality of the army in the Republic of Congo for about 20 years (range from 1992 to 1997). Gabon current king Albert-Bernard Bongo, the son of Denis Sassou-Nguesso, and both were backed by millions of dollars of gasoline Elf (see, for example, Keith Harmon Snow: The Crimes of Bongo). Sassou-Nguesso's Cobra's elite militia has also been trained by French advisers and, as Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Sassou-Nguesso has relied on Israeli intelligence and security for protection.
The alliance of the AU with NATO started long ago and saw expanded joint military operations in Sudan, where the AU has been NATO's "Face of Africa" for U.S. / UK and Israeli military actions in the war for Darfur. For example, the forces fighting for the interests of NATO, in a banner AU checked and diverted from Paul Kagame of Rwanda Defense Forces (formerly the Rwanda Patriotic Front / Army), responsible for genocide, crimes war and crimes against humanity in Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire-Congo and Darfur. Rather than condemn Western military expansion and the various forms of AFRICOM or terrorism supported by the CIA, for example, the African Union supports the war of annihilation in western Somalia, the involvement of troops Ugandan trained by Special Forces S. U., and expansion of the Pentagon in Ethiopia, and support for the dictator Meles Zenawi it. Ethiopia is the site of a genocide against the Germans, and people Orono Annuak Omo - and nobody complained about atrocities in the basin of blood-soaked oil-rich Ogaden it. What is AU?
In AFRICA: Global NATO Seeks to Recruit 50 New Military Partners jurnalist Rozoff Rick reports: "A recent article in the journal Africa Kenya citing sources within the African Union (AU), revealing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO [] is prepared to sign a treaty of military cooperation with the AU 53 the nation. " Rozoff explains that this is probably a ploy to prevent the spread of Chinese interests in the continent.
According Black Agenda Report editor Glen Ford, who also traveled to Tripoli in 2008, Gaddafi is on the outs: the man who ruled this not-so-little North African dictatorship is about finished. Whatever the truth about Muammar Gaddafi, at least one thing is certain: he was not the big bad bogeyman now under attack by the West.
[5] SUDAN
(Darfur is the giant block 12 concession on the left side.)
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And Now, the Gaddafi Genocide
On February 22, 2011, the Libyan deputy ambassador to the United Nations called on Muammar Gaddafi to step down and face trial over " war crimes and genocide".
The charge has now been widely repeated in other news venues. "European diplomats are meeting around the clock to minimise risks for their nationals after a speech by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi yesterday (22 February) was interpreted as "code to start genocide".
"Gaddafi's Genocide!" declared one CNN news pundit. A Stop Gaddafi Genocide! page was created on Facebook.
Such claims made by Libyan 'opposition' and reported in the western press that Gaddafi is committing genocide or about to commence genocide against his own people represent the height of western arrogance and hypocrisy.
If there are acts of genocide being committed in Libya, they are not being committed by Gaddafi or those fighting for Gaddafi. Reports are emerging that indicate that black Africans are being targeted by ANTI-government forces -- these would be the western media's precious 'rebels' -- for their perceived support of Gaddafi. These include black Africans from Sudan, Chad, or Egypt, many of which are apparently laborers who have been working the service and lower menial jobs in Libya. However, this report seeks to remind people that there is a political economy of genocide, just as there is a political economy of human rights (and it is imperative that any sincere and comprehensive discussion or application of the term 'genocide' be informed by an agreement or understanding of what we do and don't mean by such terminology).
The disinformation frenzy and hysteria knows no bounds. A web site dedicated to English language reporting on human rights in Cuba had this headline: Human Rights in Cuba: Is Castro Supporting Gaddafi's Genocide?
"Are Cuban pilots flying Gaddafi's military jets, which are being deployed to attack peaceful Libyan protesters?" the article begins. Interestingly, Fidel Castro was the first international leader to publicly assert that Washington was about to invade Libya: Castro was right.
At this very moment the wars being prosecuted by the USA and its allies, including Japan, Europe, Israel, South Africa, Canada and Australia, far dwarf the 'atrocities' committed in Libya. While we have no credible reporting about who is killing, who is opposition, how many dead, etc., out of Libya, we have credible report after credible report establishing that the US and its allies have perpetrated massacres, tortures, and other atrocities, including genocide, in the millions of people, in Congo-Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan - for a short list.
The claims of genocide here, akin to the one-sided charges against former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, or against Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, offer further examples of the Politics of Genocide delineated in great detail by this writer and others. Reports in western media -- provided, again, by the FNSL and other western intelligence, covert operations or psychological operations flak organizations -- are filled with harsh language and characterizations not seen in reporting on or by western military campaigns. For example, in many western reports we can find, such as Gruesome Footage Proves Libya Using Heavy Arms makes claims that "newspapers obtained shocking footage of corpses with bodies blasted off and several torsos in Libyan hospitals."
So there are several torsos. That is not quite genocide. Where are the images? If such images of death and destruction do appear it will be in sharp contrast to the complete whiteout on dead bodies in the Pentagon's other theaters of war, in the eastern Congo-Zaire or Somalia, or in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, some videos purporting to be 'violence in Libya' have disappeared from the web.
Images of dead bodies can be produced and published but these are easily stripped of context. How do western audiences and propaganda consumers know that these are authentic and not recycled images of protests from Yemen or Bahrain dumped into the western press (with their willing acknowledgment) by Britain's MI-6, as has been alleged? Al-Jezeera shows its true western colors by not reporting much of anything, and that certainly not critical of western manipulation or involvement.
Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni greets the entourage of foreign mercenaries Tony Buckingham and others as part of the Heritage Oil & Gas / Sandline International meetings to secure oil concessions in the bloody Semliki basin bordering eastern Congo-Zaire & northern Uganda: both sites of actual genocides.
We saw the tactic of collecting dead bodies and skeletons used in Rwanda by the Pentagon's agents of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, and in Darfur and South Sudan, where journalist Nicholas Kristof produced some dead shriveled bodies from some desert somewhere and claimed these were from the New York Times' Secret Genocide Archives The atrocities were committed, we are told, by President Omar al-Bashir and the government of Sudan.
However, there is never any mention of US military involvement, mercenaries (Pacific Architects and Engineers, Dyncorp, others) on the ground in Sudan. Dead men tell no tales, or dead women: these dead bodies are as likely dead from US or Israeli backed 'rebels' -- the Justice and Equality Movement or Sudan Liberation Army backed by the US, NATO, Israel and our puppet dictator in Uganda.
Kristof & New York Times' "Secret genocide Archive" February 23, 2005
The double-standards and outright lies can be seen quickly, if one knows there are deeper truths, by examining propaganda produced by the International Crisis Group, or such propaganda tracts as Smith College English teacher Eric Reeves' A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide -- where there is not one reference to Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni and his backing of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in South Sudan -- a US military covert operation -- and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) in Darfur, in all of the 386 pages.
Western mercenaries that have been deeply involved, and remain so, in some of the world's bloodiest conflicts, in coup d'etats, in massacres and other atrocities, include British mercenary Tony Buckingham -- whose mercenary past is legendary -- founder of Heritage Oil & Gas, a petroleum company linked by Buckingham to mercenary firms Branch Energy and Sandline International. Buckingham was also a partner in the infamous Executive Outcomes, with former British Special Air Services (SAS) soldier-of-misfortune Tim Spicer -- the recipient of massive Pentagon contracts in Iraq. Heritage director General Sir Michael Wilkes retired from the British Army in 1995 and is a former Middle East adviser to the British government and a member of the Army Board. Wilkes commanded Britain's SAS regiment and was director of Special Forces. Heritage Oil has exploited opportunities in Mali, Uganda, Republic of Congo, Oman and Iraq.
Heritage Oil & Gas map of operations in Iraq.
Similarly, there was no public outcry about the use of mercenaries to shore up a dictator when Central African Republic dictator Ange Felix Patasse called in Libyan troops and commanders to protect his private diamond republic. When Ethiopian troops joined the Pentagon's efforts to overthrow Col. Joseph Mobutu and reorganize capitalist interests in Congo-Zaire (1996) -- no one said a word. What are UN troops from Pakistan, Guatemala, India or Bangledesh -- paid to carry a gun and use it if necessary in support of protecting capitalist interests? Mercenaries.
"The conflict in Libya is not a revolution, but a counter-revolution," writes long-time Libya resident Gerald Perreira in Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective. "The struggle is fundamentally a battle between Pan-African forces on the one hand, who are dedicated to the realization of Qaddafi's vision of a united Africa, and reactionary racist Libyan Arab forces who reject Qaddafi's vision of Libya as part of a United Africa."
"For those of us who have lived and worked in Libya," Perreira points out, "there are many complexities to the current situation that have been completely overlooked by the Western media and 'Westoxicated' analysts. who have nothing other than a Eurocentric perspective to draw on. Let us be clear -- there is no possibility of understanding what is happening in Libya within a Eurocentric framework. Westerners are incapable of understanding a system unless the system emanates from or is attached in some way to the West. Libya's system and the battle now taking place on its soil, stands completely outside of the Western imagination."
However, the piece above has major problems. For starters, the author claims that Gaddafi supported the Sudan People's Liberation Army against an Arab regime in the North. However, he doesn't say when this was supposed to have occurred. Prior to 1990, the SPLA was a sort of liberation kind-of movement. John Garang, SPLA leader, eventually, sold out and became a U.S. client military and was even trained at the School of the Americas. Also, the author does not disclose the huge sums of money that Gaddafi has funded "pan-African" and African-American groups with, such as Louis Farrakan or many, many others. The article appears to be a one-sided apology for Gaddafi, who has served as brutal dictator throughout his reign. [The author did not respond to questions about the SPLA or others.]
In short, almost everything in the western press on the crises in Libya is slanted by some faction, or interest, or it is tainted by western arrogance, or by anti-imperialist ideology (of 'solidarity'), even in the case of what is perceived to be the 'alternative' media. There is very little accurate reporting of any kind (but some good work linked or cited herein).
Muammar Gaddafi is portrayed as champion for people of color -- providing funding, hope and solidarity where none existed, and this correspondent is aware that this [white] correspondent's writing herein is deficient in presenting all the positive aspects of his collaboration with people of color.
"The lies of the media cannot hide the fact that Gaddafi has supported the struggles of peoples for liberation in Nicaragua, Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa and many other countries, specifically concretely helping the people who fought for liberation," writes Antonio Cesar Oliviera, in Who Is Muammar Gaddafi?
"In practice, Gaddafi has always been a benefactor of mankind," Oliviera continues, "but for the mercenary [western] media, a benefactor is one who creates wars in search of profits for the arms industry or to dominate the world, as were the wars created by the U.S. in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Nicaragua and many other countries."
Gaddafi's alliance with Islam and his support for truly revolutionary movements must be understood for what the capitalist system sees them as: slaps in the face of power and threats to that power. This is one of the biggest reasons that Gaddafi, throughout his tenure as leader of the Libyan Revolution, has been considered the devil incarnate by Washington and London et al. Perhaps there is more truth to this than his supporters would like to believe.
This report [herein] is just another incomplete picture of an incomplete puzzle -- but it seeks to penetrate through and expose the ongoing western media campaign for what it is: a psychological operation against the masses of earth's people who have not and do not benefit from the nasty policies and actions implemented to serve a very small and elite group of people.
My criticisms of Gadaffi are reserved for those involved in the unjust and illegitimate invasions and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Congo-Zaire, Somalia and now Libya. Gaddafi has opposed the unjust International Criminal Court, and so do I.
People wishing to support the legitimate grievances and actions for freedom and truth in Libya should challenge the western terrorist apparatus out of Washington, DC, Tel Aviv, Brussels, London and Toronto.
Prayers for the true innocent civilians in Libya, and across the region.
* keith harmon snow traveled to Tripoli, Libya in 2009 and stayed about 3 days while attending the "2009 International Conference of the Green Book Supporters" as a member of the US Delegation invited by former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney (D-GA).
** Maps are from a petroleum industry map of all Africa produced in 1996: much has changed since then, only for the worse, in terms of oil and gas expansions.
The African Union (AU) have signed with Washington for the devastating neo-liberal trade and the agreement of the euphemistically known as the rate of growth in Africa and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Special Report of the AU on the genocide in Rwanda was a mantle full-service United States / United Kingdom and the interests of protecting the dictator Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni. The African Union has also been slammed by African leaders for inaction and silence in the various developments on the continent.
The former president of the African Union have included some of the bloodiest dictators in Africa, as Dennis Sassou-Nguesso, who ruled with absolute brutality of the army in the Republic of Congo for about 20 years (range from 1992 to 1997). Gabon current king Albert-Bernard Bongo, the son of Denis Sassou-Nguesso, and both were backed by millions of dollars of gasoline Elf (see, for example, Keith Harmon Snow: The Crimes of Bongo). Sassou-Nguesso's Cobra's elite militia has also been trained by French advisers and, as Colonel Joseph Mobutu, Sassou-Nguesso has relied on Israeli intelligence and security for protection.
The alliance of the AU with NATO started long ago and saw expanded joint military operations in Sudan, where the AU has been NATO's "Face of Africa" for U.S. / UK and Israeli military actions in the war for Darfur. For example, the forces fighting for the interests of NATO, in a banner AU checked and diverted from Paul Kagame of Rwanda Defense Forces (formerly the Rwanda Patriotic Front / Army), responsible for genocide, crimes war and crimes against humanity in Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire-Congo and Darfur. Rather than condemn Western military expansion and the various forms of AFRICOM or terrorism supported by the CIA, for example, the African Union supports the war of annihilation in western Somalia, the involvement of troops Ugandan trained by Special Forces S. U., and expansion of the Pentagon in Ethiopia, and support for the dictator Meles Zenawi it. Ethiopia is the site of a genocide against the Germans, and people Orono Annuak Omo - and nobody complained about atrocities in the basin of blood-soaked oil-rich Ogaden it. What is AU?
In AFRICA: Global NATO Seeks to Recruit 50 New Military Partners jurnalist Rozoff Rick reports: "A recent article in the journal Africa Kenya citing sources within the African Union (AU), revealing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO [] is prepared to sign a treaty of military cooperation with the AU 53 the nation. " Rozoff explains that this is probably a ploy to prevent the spread of Chinese interests in the continent.
According Black Agenda Report editor Glen Ford, who also traveled to Tripoli in 2008, Gaddafi is on the outs: the man who ruled this not-so-little North African dictatorship is about finished. Whatever the truth about Muammar Gaddafi, at least one thing is certain: he was not the big bad bogeyman now under attack by the West.
[5] SUDAN
(Darfur is the giant block 12 concession on the left side.)
View full size pop-up image
And Now, the Gaddafi Genocide
On February 22, 2011, the Libyan deputy ambassador to the United Nations called on Muammar Gaddafi to step down and face trial over " war crimes and genocide".
The charge has now been widely repeated in other news venues. "European diplomats are meeting around the clock to minimise risks for their nationals after a speech by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi yesterday (22 February) was interpreted as "code to start genocide".
"Gaddafi's Genocide!" declared one CNN news pundit. A Stop Gaddafi Genocide! page was created on Facebook.
Such claims made by Libyan 'opposition' and reported in the western press that Gaddafi is committing genocide or about to commence genocide against his own people represent the height of western arrogance and hypocrisy.
If there are acts of genocide being committed in Libya, they are not being committed by Gaddafi or those fighting for Gaddafi. Reports are emerging that indicate that black Africans are being targeted by ANTI-government forces -- these would be the western media's precious 'rebels' -- for their perceived support of Gaddafi. These include black Africans from Sudan, Chad, or Egypt, many of which are apparently laborers who have been working the service and lower menial jobs in Libya. However, this report seeks to remind people that there is a political economy of genocide, just as there is a political economy of human rights (and it is imperative that any sincere and comprehensive discussion or application of the term 'genocide' be informed by an agreement or understanding of what we do and don't mean by such terminology).
The disinformation frenzy and hysteria knows no bounds. A web site dedicated to English language reporting on human rights in Cuba had this headline: Human Rights in Cuba: Is Castro Supporting Gaddafi's Genocide?
"Are Cuban pilots flying Gaddafi's military jets, which are being deployed to attack peaceful Libyan protesters?" the article begins. Interestingly, Fidel Castro was the first international leader to publicly assert that Washington was about to invade Libya: Castro was right.
At this very moment the wars being prosecuted by the USA and its allies, including Japan, Europe, Israel, South Africa, Canada and Australia, far dwarf the 'atrocities' committed in Libya. While we have no credible reporting about who is killing, who is opposition, how many dead, etc., out of Libya, we have credible report after credible report establishing that the US and its allies have perpetrated massacres, tortures, and other atrocities, including genocide, in the millions of people, in Congo-Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan - for a short list.
The claims of genocide here, akin to the one-sided charges against former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, or against Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, offer further examples of the Politics of Genocide delineated in great detail by this writer and others. Reports in western media -- provided, again, by the FNSL and other western intelligence, covert operations or psychological operations flak organizations -- are filled with harsh language and characterizations not seen in reporting on or by western military campaigns. For example, in many western reports we can find, such as Gruesome Footage Proves Libya Using Heavy Arms makes claims that "newspapers obtained shocking footage of corpses with bodies blasted off and several torsos in Libyan hospitals."
So there are several torsos. That is not quite genocide. Where are the images? If such images of death and destruction do appear it will be in sharp contrast to the complete whiteout on dead bodies in the Pentagon's other theaters of war, in the eastern Congo-Zaire or Somalia, or in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, some videos purporting to be 'violence in Libya' have disappeared from the web.
Images of dead bodies can be produced and published but these are easily stripped of context. How do western audiences and propaganda consumers know that these are authentic and not recycled images of protests from Yemen or Bahrain dumped into the western press (with their willing acknowledgment) by Britain's MI-6, as has been alleged? Al-Jezeera shows its true western colors by not reporting much of anything, and that certainly not critical of western manipulation or involvement.
Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni greets the entourage of foreign mercenaries Tony Buckingham and others as part of the Heritage Oil & Gas / Sandline International meetings to secure oil concessions in the bloody Semliki basin bordering eastern Congo-Zaire & northern Uganda: both sites of actual genocides.
We saw the tactic of collecting dead bodies and skeletons used in Rwanda by the Pentagon's agents of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, and in Darfur and South Sudan, where journalist Nicholas Kristof produced some dead shriveled bodies from some desert somewhere and claimed these were from the New York Times' Secret Genocide Archives The atrocities were committed, we are told, by President Omar al-Bashir and the government of Sudan.
However, there is never any mention of US military involvement, mercenaries (Pacific Architects and Engineers, Dyncorp, others) on the ground in Sudan. Dead men tell no tales, or dead women: these dead bodies are as likely dead from US or Israeli backed 'rebels' -- the Justice and Equality Movement or Sudan Liberation Army backed by the US, NATO, Israel and our puppet dictator in Uganda.
Kristof & New York Times' "Secret genocide Archive" February 23, 2005
The double-standards and outright lies can be seen quickly, if one knows there are deeper truths, by examining propaganda produced by the International Crisis Group, or such propaganda tracts as Smith College English teacher Eric Reeves' A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide -- where there is not one reference to Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni and his backing of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in South Sudan -- a US military covert operation -- and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) in Darfur, in all of the 386 pages.
Western mercenaries that have been deeply involved, and remain so, in some of the world's bloodiest conflicts, in coup d'etats, in massacres and other atrocities, include British mercenary Tony Buckingham -- whose mercenary past is legendary -- founder of Heritage Oil & Gas, a petroleum company linked by Buckingham to mercenary firms Branch Energy and Sandline International. Buckingham was also a partner in the infamous Executive Outcomes, with former British Special Air Services (SAS) soldier-of-misfortune Tim Spicer -- the recipient of massive Pentagon contracts in Iraq. Heritage director General Sir Michael Wilkes retired from the British Army in 1995 and is a former Middle East adviser to the British government and a member of the Army Board. Wilkes commanded Britain's SAS regiment and was director of Special Forces. Heritage Oil has exploited opportunities in Mali, Uganda, Republic of Congo, Oman and Iraq.
Heritage Oil & Gas map of operations in Iraq.
Similarly, there was no public outcry about the use of mercenaries to shore up a dictator when Central African Republic dictator Ange Felix Patasse called in Libyan troops and commanders to protect his private diamond republic. When Ethiopian troops joined the Pentagon's efforts to overthrow Col. Joseph Mobutu and reorganize capitalist interests in Congo-Zaire (1996) -- no one said a word. What are UN troops from Pakistan, Guatemala, India or Bangledesh -- paid to carry a gun and use it if necessary in support of protecting capitalist interests? Mercenaries.
"The conflict in Libya is not a revolution, but a counter-revolution," writes long-time Libya resident Gerald Perreira in Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective. "The struggle is fundamentally a battle between Pan-African forces on the one hand, who are dedicated to the realization of Qaddafi's vision of a united Africa, and reactionary racist Libyan Arab forces who reject Qaddafi's vision of Libya as part of a United Africa."
"For those of us who have lived and worked in Libya," Perreira points out, "there are many complexities to the current situation that have been completely overlooked by the Western media and 'Westoxicated' analysts. who have nothing other than a Eurocentric perspective to draw on. Let us be clear -- there is no possibility of understanding what is happening in Libya within a Eurocentric framework. Westerners are incapable of understanding a system unless the system emanates from or is attached in some way to the West. Libya's system and the battle now taking place on its soil, stands completely outside of the Western imagination."
However, the piece above has major problems. For starters, the author claims that Gaddafi supported the Sudan People's Liberation Army against an Arab regime in the North. However, he doesn't say when this was supposed to have occurred. Prior to 1990, the SPLA was a sort of liberation kind-of movement. John Garang, SPLA leader, eventually, sold out and became a U.S. client military and was even trained at the School of the Americas. Also, the author does not disclose the huge sums of money that Gaddafi has funded "pan-African" and African-American groups with, such as Louis Farrakan or many, many others. The article appears to be a one-sided apology for Gaddafi, who has served as brutal dictator throughout his reign. [The author did not respond to questions about the SPLA or others.]
In short, almost everything in the western press on the crises in Libya is slanted by some faction, or interest, or it is tainted by western arrogance, or by anti-imperialist ideology (of 'solidarity'), even in the case of what is perceived to be the 'alternative' media. There is very little accurate reporting of any kind (but some good work linked or cited herein).
Muammar Gaddafi is portrayed as champion for people of color -- providing funding, hope and solidarity where none existed, and this correspondent is aware that this [white] correspondent's writing herein is deficient in presenting all the positive aspects of his collaboration with people of color.
"The lies of the media cannot hide the fact that Gaddafi has supported the struggles of peoples for liberation in Nicaragua, Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa and many other countries, specifically concretely helping the people who fought for liberation," writes Antonio Cesar Oliviera, in Who Is Muammar Gaddafi?
"In practice, Gaddafi has always been a benefactor of mankind," Oliviera continues, "but for the mercenary [western] media, a benefactor is one who creates wars in search of profits for the arms industry or to dominate the world, as were the wars created by the U.S. in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Nicaragua and many other countries."
Gaddafi's alliance with Islam and his support for truly revolutionary movements must be understood for what the capitalist system sees them as: slaps in the face of power and threats to that power. This is one of the biggest reasons that Gaddafi, throughout his tenure as leader of the Libyan Revolution, has been considered the devil incarnate by Washington and London et al. Perhaps there is more truth to this than his supporters would like to believe.
This report [herein] is just another incomplete picture of an incomplete puzzle -- but it seeks to penetrate through and expose the ongoing western media campaign for what it is: a psychological operation against the masses of earth's people who have not and do not benefit from the nasty policies and actions implemented to serve a very small and elite group of people.
My criticisms of Gadaffi are reserved for those involved in the unjust and illegitimate invasions and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Congo-Zaire, Somalia and now Libya. Gaddafi has opposed the unjust International Criminal Court, and so do I.
People wishing to support the legitimate grievances and actions for freedom and truth in Libya should challenge the western terrorist apparatus out of Washington, DC, Tel Aviv, Brussels, London and Toronto.
Prayers for the true innocent civilians in Libya, and across the region.
* keith harmon snow traveled to Tripoli, Libya in 2009 and stayed about 3 days while attending the "2009 International Conference of the Green Book Supporters" as a member of the US Delegation invited by former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney (D-GA).
** Maps are from a petroleum industry map of all Africa produced in 1996: much has changed since then, only for the worse, in terms of oil and gas expansions.
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