Too bad. The world's ecology might not be able to take the adjunct imperative of continuous war for maximum accumulation of private capital.*(11)
Stephen Lendman alerts us:
in April 3, AFP headlined, "Libya warns of disaster if 'Great Man-Made River' hit," saying:
If GMMR is bombed, it could cause a "human and environmental disaster." Libya has three underground pipeline systems, for oil, gas, and water. If one is hit, the others are affected, potentially disastrously.
With all the strongest capitalist nations' firepower against what now remains of an Arab socialist society, of its blasted army and its heroic loyal citizen militias, it seems impossible that Gaddafi and his Libya will survive, let alone be able turn this blitzkrieg into a second Bay of Pigs defeat for weaponized private capital.
Postscript:
Seems the Boston Globe might have defected from the New York Times led U.S. corporate media cartel backing the overthrow of the government of Libya. Human Rights Watch is also distancing itself from outright pro-insurgency lies. click here
False pretense for war in Libya?
EVIDENCE IS now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a "bloodbath'' in Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city and last rebel stronghold.
But Human Rights Watch has released data on Misurata, the next-biggest city in Libya and scene of protracted fighting, revealing that Moammar Khadafy is not deliberately massacring civilians but rather narrowly targeting the armed rebels who fight against his government.
"Misurata's population is roughly 400,000. In nearly two months of war, only 257 people -- including combatants -- have died there. Of the 949 wounded, only 22 -- less than 3 percent -- are women. If Khadafy were indiscriminately targeting civilians, women would comprise about half the casualties. "
[Your author would like to point out on the evening of the publication of this article, Diane Sawyer, on ABC's World Report, with a pained expression on her face showed a video of a young girl on camera in Misurata asking pathetically "Why is Gaddafi killing us?"
A truthful report from Human Rights Watch here quoted in this Boston Globe OpEd does little to address the complicity of New York based Human Rights Watch in having stoked the creation of the now firmly held widespread belief that in the third week of February of peaceful protesters were shot to pieces on Gaddafi's orders. The myth created now allows everyone one in business to run with it.]
"Obama insisted that prospects were grim without intervention. "If we waited one more day, Benghazi " could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.'' Thus, the president concluded, "preventing genocide'' justified US military action.
But intervention did not prevent genocide, because no such bloodbath was in the offing. To the contrary, by emboldening rebellion, US interference has prolonged Libya's civil war and the resultant suffering of innocents.
The best evidence that Khadafy did not plan genocide in Benghazi is that he did not perpetrate it in the other cities he had recaptured either fully or partially -- including Zawiya, Misurata, and Ajdabiya, which together have a population greater than Benghazi.
Libyan forces did kill hundreds as they regained control of cities. Collateral damage is inevitable in counter-insurgency. ...
Despite ubiquitous cellphones equipped with cameras and video, there is no graphic evidence of deliberate massacre. Images abound of victims killed or wounded in crossfire -- each one a tragedy -- but that is urban warfare, not genocide.
Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged . The "no mercy'' warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya's leader promised amnesty for those "who throw their weapons away.'' Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt"
OP-ED April 14, 2011 by Alan J. Kuperman
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