Imperial Madness Continues in Libya

The shift in the news from the hype for intervention in Libya for all the "right" humanitarian reasons, to the nearly non-reporting of the present Western powers' policies that openly aim to support an armed insurrection to achieve regime change, only took about two weeks.

As I write this, the hype is what is left in people's mind as an impression of what is happening in Libya, and not the truth of what is really happening there...For that you have to do your own research, not watch the news...Not even Al Jazeera.

The Libyan "revolution" is in tatters. Even with NATO's and US brutal  air bombardments of government troops and installations, the influx of new heavy weapons sent from Egypt, and hundreds of US military advisers on the ground, the so called rebels have not manage to achieve any considerable military gains.

Why?

Plain and simple. The vast majority of the Libyan population does not support this western fabricated and engineered attempted overthrow of the present regime.  Without the support of the masses, the West is going to keep sending more and more advisers, and more and more military personnel until they themselves directly attempt to overthrow the government of Libya. Just as it happened in Vietnam.

The French and British are already moving to do this. Under whose authority, it is unclear. No international body has authorized military support of the rebels in what is obviously an armed conflict between two sides, and for all intents and purposes, an armed insurrection covertly and overtly supported by western colonialists powers against a still recognized sovereign state in North Africa.

All media hype aside, there was also NEVER any real assessment of the number of Libyan citizens that were supporting this supposed popular uprising.  There was neither ever any official independent confirmation of the media claims about mass murder of civilians by Ghaddafi's forces, the use of airplane bombings on them, or the threat to hurt the non-combatant civilian population of Benghazi.

As if watching a real life version of the motion picture Wag the Dog, where a non existent war is fabricated on TV and convinces the masses that it is truly happening, the "facts" of the situation in Libya that initially led to the call for intervention were largely fabricated, and never independently confirmed.  In the case of the threat to hurt the civilian population, the actual statement was misquoted and manipulated to say what Obama and the west wanted it to, and not what it actually said! I read it. Heard the radio address too, and it did not say any such thing. On the contrary, it clearly stated that not one single non combatant would be hurt. I wrote about this here and flagged it to some news media. For what? I am not sure...

In "Scandal in Bohemia," by Arthur Conan Doyle, the detective Sherlock Holmes says to his friend Doctor Watson: "It is a capital error to theorize before having data. Without realizing it, one begins to deform the facts so that they adjust to the theories instead of adjusting the theories to the facts."

The facts are, that 3 days into the "peaceful protests", and after going pretty much ignored by both the civilian population as well as by the Libyan authorities, the "peaceful protesters" brought it up to the next level right quick, and decided to start burning down Benghazi police stations, and storming army weapons depots...After that, it was an armed struggle with casualties on both ends, and it has continued to be.

Now, another fact is that these so called rebels, have rejected the truce negotiations independently designed and presented by the African Union. So has the west. Their reasons? Screw the end of the violence, the killing and the destruction of infrastructure, Ghaddafi must go now. By force, mind you. Not as part of an agreement to a democratic process that would put the power of deciding Libya's future in the hands of the people in the near future, but by the forceful will of what remains a CIA-NATO backed minority insurgency.

We should try pulling that off here and see how we fare...After all, what more mass murdering, factual and verified,  than what the US has committed  in Afghanistan? Not a week goes by where US forces do not kill a dozen civilians or so in Afghanistan or Pakistan, ultimately and supposedly to hunt down terrorists they themselves once created and armed to overthrow the Communist regime in Afghanistan, yet another foe of Empire at the time. Never mind the thousands of civilians killed in Iraq during the war and the occupation, and the recent dead civilians killed in the latest indiscriminate bombing of Libya. Deaths which have been confirmed as fact even by NATO itself.

So what is the moral authority of the US, the French and the bloody Brits? None. What is driving this is these nations' blatant imperialist double standard hypocrisy and our own tacit support, as their citizens, of their hypocrisy.  It is also our own prejudice, our own racism, and our own willingness to accept under-informed founded premises about the situation in Libya that continue to provide cover for the affronts on international law that our country and its allies keep perpetrating in Libya and against other Global South and Muslim countries.

We live in one of the most brutal and corrupt stages of human history, and this stage has major actors. Our country, including its present leadership, direct and act on this stage to the beat of billions of dollars of production money...

Wag the Dog part II  is reality TV at its best..