Creative Destruction Part III:

Humanitarian Neo-colonialism:

Framing Libya and Reframing War

F.William Engdahl

Oilgeopolitics.net

3rd May, 2011

The most remarkable facet of NATO’s war against Libya is the fact that “world opinion,” that ever so nebulous thing, has accepted an act of overt military aggression against a sovereign country guilty of no violation of the UN Charter in an act  of de facto neo-colonialism, a ‘humanitarian’ war in violation of basic precepts of the laws of nations. The world has accepted it without realizing the implications if the war against Gaddafi’s Libya is allowed to succeed in forced regime change. At issue is not whether or not Gaddafi is good or evil. At issue is the very concept of the civilized law of nations and of just or unjust wars.

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As NATO disintegrates it will continue to pledge itself, as in Afghanistan, to finishing the job, whatever that is.

Nato reviews Libya campaign after France admits arming rebels

Yahoo

29th June, 2011

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Dutch defence minister warned NATO allies on Wednesday against “mission creep” in Libya and forecast heated debate in the military alliance about the future of its campaign if it was not over by the end of September.

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Nato reviews Libya campaign after France admits arming rebels

Guardian

29th June, 2011

Nato was today urgently reviewing the conduct of its military campaign inLibya after France admitted arming rebel fighters in apparent defiance of the UN mandate.

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Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

29th June, 2011

As the Libyan bombing campaign entered the 100th day, NATO announced its imminent success. However, since the aims of the war were never clearly defined, it is difficult to know what is meant by success. Simultaneously, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and the Libyan regime’s intelligence chief Abjullah al-Sanoussi for “crimes against humanity.”

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Qadaffi stays and Obama leaves?

Franklin Lamb

Opinion Maker

28th June, 2011

Gaddafi has survived assaults of various types from US Presidents’ Ford, Carter, Reagan, George Bush 1, Clinton, George Bush 2, and Obama. Vegas book makers are giving odds he’ll be the leader of Libya’s Fatah Revolution after the voters retire Obama, whose broken promises included telling them that the US would be involved in Libya for days, not months.

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PressTV

29th June, 2011

The Center for Research on Globalization says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU).

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William Bowles

Global Research

29th April, 2011

Facts are wonderful things, ignore them at all cost

The BBC which makes much of its ‘objective’ and ‘balanced’ news coverage, when challenged by the facts of its biased coverage of events in the Middle East and elsewhere, cites examples of where it has given voice to all sides of the issue. This is debatable, but let’s assume that the BBC does present all sides then it really comes down to numbers as the following example of the vast disparity, not only in numbers but also in content, between its Syria/Libya and Bahrain coverage.

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Black Star News

21st June, 2011

The “rebels” in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud.”

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Amnesty questions claim that Gaddafi ordered rape as weapon of war

Patrick Cockburn

Independent

24th June, 2011

Human rights organisations have cast doubt on claims of mass rape and other abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which have been widely used to justify Nato’s war in Libya.

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