To begin, the Libyan organization of exiles in London, funded by CIA, called for a demonstration against Gaddafi (to be on the same day as the annual demonstration regarding the Danish cartoons that had once insulted prophet Mohammed). Factories owned by China and Korea were viciously invaded by attackers, and attacks began on traffic police stations by small groups in Benghazi those inside to flee. On the first day, Feb. 15, Reuters reported, "hundreds attacking traffic police stations, no deaths, 60 injured. The next day, Feb. 16, Reuters reported ,"6 dead when more than a thousand protesters attacked more police stations." Feb. 17th, the London called for Day of Rage, The Evening Standard and Al Jazeera English estimated that fourteen people were killed. BBC and Reuters apparently not yet on board the conspiracy reported that evening confirming official hospital report of total of only 26 dead including policemen. After overnight protests, the following day, 18 February 2011, Guardian.co.UK by Ian Black and Owen Bowcott, "Amer Saad, a political activist from Derna, told al-Jazeera: "The "protesters' in al-Bayda have been able to seize control of the military air base in the city and have executed 50 African 'mercenaries.' BBC also reported that 50 black Libyan soldiers had be brutally executed, some beheaded. The killers proudly put cell phone videos of the gruesome execution spectacle on YouTube, but this was never reported by CNN, the only 24 hour news channel. On Feb. 21 a bare four days after the overseas calls for "day of rage' U.S. media's UK counterpart, the Telegraph reported, "The International Federation for Human Rights said Libya's second largest city [Benghazi], along with Sirte, Tobruk, Misrata, Khoms, Tarhounah, Zenten, Al-Zawiya and Zouara had all been taken by protesters. " Protesters?" For nine months thereafter TV viewers were given to see these tough hombre heavily armed 'freedom fighters' in their fleets of pickup trucks with heavy weapons looking nothing at all like protesters, but hailed as bank clerks, office workers etc. 'turned 'rebels.'
Meanwhile Western media, politicos, and UN spokespersons were all repeating the refrain, "Gaddafi is killing his own people!" as the UN filed against Gaddati and his minister in the International Criminal Court, and Obama order the seizure of billions of dollars of Libyan assets. Immediate action taken solely on uninvestigated CNN and al Jazeera unsubstantiated reporting. This is the Gaddafi, who, like Fidel Castro had been condemned as a 'brutal dictator,' worthy of assassination for more than forty years to justify past attempts.
Most humiliating for Obama, should he live to be tried, is his pathetically embarrassing speech to the nation justifying the heavy blitz bombing of a small extremely wealthy African nation, accusing its revolutionary leader (so troublesome for the colonial powers), of stealing Libya's money, ordering his soldiers to rape and massacre, citing one hardly identified woman's accusations, a woman who years later would be convicted and imprisoned in the US for violent behavior.[Libyan symbol of freedom facing 6 years behind bars - CNN.com]
The reader is invited to read the in depth fully documented day by day history by your archival research peoples historian working for former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. [There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nick Robertson, 16 June, 2011, Countercurrents.org] An earlier article published two weeks after the violence began, gives historical background which includes a degree of rivalry between Phoenician founded Tripoli and Greek founded Benghazi (united by Britain only eighteen years prior to the Libyan revolution) from which the plotters easily took fake news advantage of, given the Libya's highly decentralized tribal democracy. [Capitalism's Warplanes: CIA & al Qaeda Destroy Socialist Libya's 53rd Highest Living Standard, April 4, 2011]
What unfolded in Syria, underwritten by Obama, was an armed insurrection supported covertly by foreign powers including the US, Turkey, Qatar and Israel. Armed insurgents belonging to Islamist organizations crossed the border from Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The US State Department eventually confirmed that it was supporting the 'insurgency.' A monolithic unified slant media cartel limited reports to indiscriminate killing of civilian protesters by Syrian government, not reporting Syrian TV videos of lethal firing from provocateur snipers. In Putting Syria into Some Perspective , The Anti-Empire Report, April 8th, 2012, by peoples historian William Blum writes of "the numerous reports of forces providing military support to the Syrian rebels -- the UK, France, the US, Turkey, Israel, Qatar, the Gulf states, and everyone's favorite champion of freedom and democracy, Saudi Arabia; with Syria claiming to have captured some 14 French soldiers; plus individual jihadists and mercenaries from Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Libya, et al, joining of the antigovernment forces, their number including al-Qaeda veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who are likely behind the car bombs in an attempt to create chaos and destabilize the country. This may mark the third time the United States has been on the same side as al-Qaeda. Imperialist media would have us believe that Syrian government forces are not fighting against an armed insurrection funded and controlled from forces outside Syria. And CNN would have us discount the periodic massive pro-government demonstrations, and Assad's reelection by an overwhelming majority.
Once the West's war on Gaddafi was going well, American news commentators in rare moments had proudly admitted that the CIA was heavily involved. No so, when it came to Syria until years later, once the public had been properly taught to hate Syria's President Assad sufficiently. The imperialist media cartel that controls what news is selected and how and with what intention it shall be broadcasted has done its best to demonize Assad. How? Simple! They just keep repeating day in day out that Syrian government forces are shooting and massacring protesters, period. They don't say anything else. That's it. There is nothing else happening. When it is necessary to admit that police and soldiers are being ambushed and killed, a cover story comes with it, like, 'it is suspected that they were killed by defecting police and military.'[8][9] Already in 1950, Einstein explained why our civilization continues to be "like an axe in the had of the pathological criminal,": "Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." - Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism. [see also "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media by Paul Craig Roberts, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, 10/16/2014]
During Obama's tenure this amazing cartel of Pentagon/CIA fed media conglomerates, which seems to have the great majority of the basically indifferent population of the West in tow, effortlessly ran its usual cascade of disinformation, half-truths, propaganda and blacked out information, preparing justification for military intervention as previously in the cases of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iran and Somalia. And investors in genocide spokesperson Obama parroted it all during his eight pompous years as supposedly the most powerful man on earth, in reality, Rev. Cornel West repeated, "a black puppet of Wall Street", heading up the American killing machine and proud of it." However, the plan to destabilize Syria did not work all that well, even with the Obama administration having Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other subservient nations passing the funding and equipping to tens of thousands of hyped up Islamic terrorists to destroy spokesperson Obama's dutifully designated enemies Assad and Shiite wherever found.[7][8][9][10][11] Obama oversaw the success of persuading public opinion that the Syria was in the grip of a brutal dictatorship, but it also welded the vast majority of the Syrian population firmly behind its government while over years flooding Europe with more than a million desperate refugees fleeing the death brought to an half million Syrian families. All of this for a regime change calculated to benefit investors in profitable genocide with Obama parroting "President Assad must step down." Ultimately, defense attorneys will be of little use to Obama. For years even British tabloids have exposed the US being behind the creation of ISIS and other terrorist states.[7][8][9][10][11]
Yemen: Beside the numerous illegal US drone strikes in Yemen Obama ordered, the Obama administration has offered unwavering support for Saudi Arabia's murderous air strikes on Shiites in Yemen. Since August 2016, Saudi airstrikes have killed perhaps a thousand civilians, and airstrikes have targeted weddings and hospitals. The Obama administration has offered more than $60 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia since 2010, and the attacks on civilians in Yemen have been carried out with these weapons. It has recently been discovered that the U.S. has been supplying the Arab monarchy with white phosphorus, a chemical weapon that burns skin to the bone.
Pakistan: Complete data sheet on absolutely illegal drone strikes during Obama's administrations: Strikes: 373, Total killed: 2,499-3,600, Civilians killed: 382-869, Children killed: 155-178, Injured: 955-1,580.[Bureau of Investigative Journalism]
Somalia: Obama signed on to continue the decades of US crimes against humanity in Somalia that had brought death and starvation to millions in backing war lord governments with bombings and funding Ethiopian and Kenyan armed forces to war against a beautifully efficient popular conservative Islamic Courts government. In the Battle of Beledweyne, July 1, 2008, Somali opposition fighters ambushed Ethiopian army convoy leaving 47 Ethiopian soldiers and 235 Islamist fighters dead. August 22, 2008, Al-Shabaab retook Kismayo, [IRIN News] (Islamic Courts Union, had been driven out of Kismayo in January 2007 when Ethiopian forces rolled into Somalia to take control of much of central and southern Somalia.) The Islamic Courts' Youth Wing, al Shabaab (Shabaab = "youth' in Arabic), with great cost in deaths and casualties to themselves heroically pushed the heavily weaponized Ethiopians back out of cities. The Obama administration went beyond occasional (illegal) US and NATO air strikes and got a subservient UN to arrange a African UN force of 'Peace Keepers" to replace the defeated Ethiopian proxy. "More than 1 million in Somalia are going hungry."[1/ 5/2010, CNN ][see Merciless US NATO UN Genocide in Somalia Brought Nairobi Shopping Mall Blowback! Background, history and chronology of US genocide in Somalia. OpEdNews, October 14, 2013]
For centuries, the US has committed war crimes around the world and rarely suffered negative consequences as a result. Some of the US most notable war criminals, such as Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama, have received numerous accolades, including the Nobel Peace Prize, despite their dark legacies. However, things may soon change. In 2010, the Human Rights Council of the UN put on record a report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston addressing legal issue arising from the new targeted killing policies of US President Obama. Last month the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California recently confirmed that Judges Susan Graber and Andrew Hurwitz will hear oral arguments in the case of Saleh v. Bush. In January, 2016, Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and other eminent jurists had entered a friend of the court brief pointing out that Nuremberg Principles of International Law emphasize no national law can be used to override indictment of a sitting head of state. In 2011, Ramsey Clark testified at the trial of former President of Veterans For Peace Elliot Adams, arrested while blocking the gates of a New York drone factory to read an indictment of President Obama, the full chain of military command, and every drone crew for crimes against humanity, citing the Nuremberg Principles of International Law.
It's impossible to know what a very probable world wide demand for justice for victims of the Western imperialist age might bring about thirty-years from now, but the citizens of Haiti can make a good case for including indictment of Obama for deaths attributed to Obama continuing US arranged proxy UN military protection of a Haitian government serving unjust predatory foreign investment forcefully isolating Haiti's twice elected, twice overthrown and US kidnapped popular socialist President Father Aristide. And though it might be a legal stretch to indict Obama for weapons of mass destruction merchandizing, that Obama signed six billion dollar sale with India most certainly secured the grim reaper's taking many millions of lives of India's children through starvation and malnutrition.[see Merchant of Death Obama Sells $Billions in Weapons - Dooms India's Starving President Obama has made himself a partner in this crime against humanity![12]
Consolation? If former President Obama lives to a healthy elderly age in a much more harmonious world than today's, and faces charges by survivors of genocidal violence in their own beloved countries by uninvited U.S. military personnel, he might welcome at least some weight lifted from his conscience in witnessing a modicum of justice served by the expected trillions of dollars that will have to be paid out in compensation, indemnity and reparations adjudicated by that court of a new and completely reorganized United Nations.
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