http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...march-benghazi
Libya's biggest tribe joins march of reconciliation to Benghazi
Guardian UK 3/23/11
"With more than a million members, Warfalla live all over Libya, including in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. The tribe's geographical distribution means it is well-placed to help heal bitter divisions by joining a peaceful "green march" to the eastern city to promote reconciliation and avoid the Korea-style partition of the country many fear"
"We will talk to them, not use guns, to discuss their demands," said Bani Walid doctor, Salman al-Dagil. ...
"All Libyans are related, especially the Warfalla," said Mbrak Ibrahim, a British-educated telecoms engineer. "It means that we have family everywhere. We will be happy if we can open our hearts and stop this bloodshed."
One notices that though CNN anchors are often reporting from Tripoli and other towns not taken or under attack by rebels, they have not been reporting from inside the rebel controlled cities like Benghazi, rather constantly showing themselves along side the pick-up trucks mounted with heavy weapons. The gun mounted pick-up truck has become the U.S. TV. logo of the crusade for democracy.
Within a matter of days the whole imperial West swung into action - warnings from international courts, seizure of Libya's $billions of assets abroad, embargoes, sanctions, threats of military action then finally a UN Security Council go ahead. (Prophetically, just a year ago, Gadhafi, speaking before the UN General Assembly, had called the Security Council "The Council of Terror," for all the post-colonial wars on small nations it has approved and participated in.)
In Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain hundreds died, and are still dying in nonviolent protests. In each county all the deaths were attributed to police, security or government armed forces in daily accounts from the very first days of protests. Yet no armed rebellion took place. We have seen video shots of cadre of the protestors in action maintaining calm and keeping their people nonviolent. Even after terrible loss of life the continued to prevent violence against the government.
Two infamous U.S. backed dictators had already been ousted peacefully though many protestors were murdered. In Yemen snipers continued to kill protesters, the huge demonstrations causing worry in Washington. Mass protests in Bahrain were threatening the home of the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
Then in mid February, the empire struck back with clever vengence: armed insurgents in prosperous socialist Libya, a media campaign of disinformation. Coordinated gangs with heavy weapons occupied the centers of whole cities and US NATO began bombing to protect them from defeat. Bahrain, at the same time, was invaded by U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, its Armed Forces repressing the demonstrators and assisting in their persecution. Washington imported a leader for the rebellion in Libya who has spent the past 20 years living with no known source of income a couple of miles from the CIA's headquarters in Virginia; Gen. Khalifa Hifter was once a top military officer for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. McClatchy Newspapers , 3/26/11
U.S. empire watchers need not be so deeply versed in history and current affairs (made all the more difficult with TV watching and newspaper and tabloid reading) to know that the civil war conjured up in Libya is just one of more than sixty arranged since 1945, to divide, destroy and conquer for imperial neocolonialist control over vulnerable small nations. The underclasses of the U.S. population and the poor in the third world use their sense of smell to know that the same game is going on in Libya. Invasion experienced Fidel Castro, after the first two days of disturbance expected that NATO would use it as a pretext to invade.
Will history books credit all this bloodshed to Gadhafi having "targeted civilians peacefully demonstrating for democracy?" Or will a plot be uncovered to stage a pretext for civil war with a lot of orchestrated shooting, killing and false flag operations led by a CIA famous for a covert provoking of confusion and violence while heavily armed elements stood ready to be activated (as in past CIA overthows)?
The very first day, 2/15 saw police stations attacked -no deaths. The second day more stations attacked and 6 deaths. On the fourth day, various trustworthy sources report the rebels executed at least fifty-two - twice the total deaths agreed upon for the third day. There are some horrifically gruesome cell phone videos on the Internet of grisly hangings, beheadings, bloody beatings of blacks and others loyal to their government. (Libya has a black population, mostly in South Libya, of half a million. Libya under Gaddafi has eliminated a good deal of race discrimination, so black Libyans are especially loyal to the government.) South Koreans and most all Chinese construction sites have reported attacks by armed anti-government gangs.*( 6)
Obama, with help from European empires of yesteryear, proclaims he is protecting [erstwhile colonially occupied] Libyans. Protecting them from a successful government led by their revolutionary socialist leader Colonel Gaddafi at the same time he protects, for a second time, Afghanis from having an Afghan government, and is protecting Iraqis, Somalis, Yemeni and Pakistanis from their own chosen government, just as the U.S. once protected Lebanese from their government, and protected Iranians from their democracy.
In the same way, America has protected Haitians , Congolese, Chileans, Dominicans and Guatemalans from their elected presidents, the Vietnamese from their popular hero Ho Chi Minh, protected the government of El Salvador from Salvadorians, protected Grenadians, Laotians, Greeks and Koreans from their own people, protected Indonesians from overpopulation, and tried to protect Cubans from their revolution and Fidel Castro, all with either U.S. navy shelling from the sea, bombs, missiles and napalm from the air, WMD in their country, U.S. troops in their cities, a deadly CIA, predatory investment banks, or all of the above at the same time, with commercial mass media TV promoting war and a puppet UN Secretary General colluding.
There is an imperative involved today in Libya and the rest of the Middle East that is more basic than keeping U.S. backed dictators in power or eliminating non-capitalist regimes.The same imperative has driven war upon planet Earth for centuries. It is imperative for private investment financial capital to accumulate, and accumulate at an ever increasing rate. This is a complex modern auto-functioning financial investment imperative pushing the wealthiest owners of capital into ever new variations of the same ancient conspiracy of the rich against the rest of us.
While a lovely and well kept Libya is being destroyed before our very eyes and readied for highly profitable investments, up and coming wars are being planned very seriously.
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