Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011
Pepe Escobar
6th July, 2011
We interrupt the global fascination with the non-stop psycho drama of the DSK (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) case – Was he “a perv?” Was she “a hooker”? Was there a conspiracy? – to inform how a post-modern “kinetic military action” is won; in the public relations arena, where else.
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011
14th June, 2011
The anti-Kadhafi uprising in Libya is neither democratic nor spontaneous, according to a delegation which visited the country last month.Theirreport, published by two French-based thinktanks, claims the rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) wants to impose Islamic sharia law and that the uprising is motivated by regional resentment and vindictiveness.
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011
This report has been produced by the French think-tank, Centre international de recherche et d’études sur le terrorisme et d’aide aux victimes du terrorisme (CIRET-AVT)
May, 2011
Summary
Il n’est nul besoin d’insister sur la nature hautement critiquable de la dictature imposée, depuis 1969, par Muammar Kadhafi à ses concitoyens. Face à une telle situation, rien n’est plus légitime que l’aspiration { plus de liberté et de démocratie.
Néanmoins, l’étude des faits conduit { affirmer que la « révolution » libyenne n’est ni démocratique, ni spontanée. Il s’agit d’un soulèvement armé de la partie orientale du pays, dans un esprit de revanche et de dissidence, qui tente de s’inscrire dans la dynamique du « printemps » arabe, dont il ne relève cependant pas.
Le mouvement libyen ne peut donc être comparé avec les révoltes populaires tunisienne et égyptienne.
Plus inquiétant, le CNT s’affirme n’être qu’une coalition d’éléments disparates aux intérêts divergents, dont l’unique point commun est leur opposition déterminée au régime. Les véritables démocrates n’y sont qu’une minorité, et doivent cohabiter avec des d’anciens proches du colonel Kadhafi, des partisans d’un retour de la monarchie et des tenants de l’instauration d’un islam radical
Le CNT n’offre, en conséquence, aucune garantie pour l’avenir, malgré la détermination des démocrates, car les autres factions entendent bien orienter le conseil dans le sens de leurs objectifs.
Surtout, la Libye est le seul pays du « printemps » arabe dans lequel le risque islamiste s’accroît, la Cyrénaïque étant la région du monde arabe ayant envoyé le plus grand nombre de djihadistes combattre les Américains en Irak.
Il semble donc que les puissances occidentales ont fait preuve d’un aventurisme excessif en s’engageant dans cette crise. Ce qui devait être une victoire facile est devenu un semi-échec en raison de l’inconsistance des forces rebelles. L’enlisement des opérations des insurgés ne leur laisse que deux possibilités : un recul peu glorieux ou un engagement accru dans le conflit, notamment par l’envoi d’unités terrestres.
L’intervention occidentale est en train de créer plus de problèmes qu’elle n’en résout. Elle risque fort de déstabiliser toute l’Afrique du Nord, le Sahel, le Proche-Orient, et de favoriser l’émergence d’un nouveau foyer d’islam radical, voire de terrorisme, en Cyrénaïque.
La coalition parviendra peut-être { éliminer le guide libyen. Mais l’Occident doit prendre garde qu’il ne soit pas remplacé par un régime plus radical et tout aussi peu démocratique.
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011
Victor Kotsev
6th July, 2011
TEL AVIV – Should the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) disband the Libyan security forces and army, like the United States did, controversially, in Iraq, or should it preserve them and hope that their loyalties will switch? Apparently, this is a question worrying top British officials, as Bloomberg reported recently [1].
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011
6th July, 2011§
David Aaronovitch, 9/11 believer, Promises Debate.
Some 250 people braved a chilly Monday evening to hear world renowned US architect Richard Gage demolish the US governments’ version of 9/11 at the main lecture room in the Royal Instsitute of British Architects this week. The Times’ David Aaronovitch, a leading media cheerleader for the official 9/11 story, was present and accepted a challenge to debate the issue in public.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011
Saudis and Anglo-Americans take note of divergent interests
1st July, 2011
At a recent meeting that discretely took place on the Molesworth NATO air base in the UK, Prince Turki al-Fayçal conveyed to his Anglo-American allies the official Saudi position with regard to the “Arab Spring.”
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011
1st July, 2011
A prominent Liberal Democrat has called for Chris Huhne to resign immediately as energy and climate change secretary after emails were released detailing his officials’ efforts to co-ordinate a PR response to the Fukushima disaster with the nuclear industry. Civil servants in the energy and business departments were apparently trying to minimise the impact of the disaster on public support for nuclear power.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011
Thierry Mayssan
3rd July, 2011
It was a family celebration, the Libyan way. Everyone had gathered to celebrate the third birthday of little Al-Khweldy. The grand-parents, the brothers and sisters and cousins were crowding inside the family house located in Sorman, 70 Kms West of the capital: a big garden where small houses had been built for the various members of the family, plain, one-floor houses.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011
Thierry Meyssan
2nd July, 2011
On 1 July 2011, hundreds of thousands of Libyans supporters gathered in Green Square and surroundings. Some 1 700 000 people demonstrated to defend their country and to repudiate NATO’s aggression.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011
Libya Rebels Reject Another Peace Plan, Vow New Offensive
Calls for Peace a ‘Non-Starter’ for NATO-Backed Rebels
Jason Ditz
3rd July, 2011
The East Libyan rebel governemnt has again rejected an international attempt at brokering a ceasefire in the war-torn nation, saying any peace talks were a “non-starter” unless they pledged to guarantee the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi and all members of his “inner circle.”
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In These New Times 