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US are blood thirsty imperialists: Malema

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2011

IOL News

 

6yh July, 2011

ANC Youth League President Julius Malema on Wednesday labelled the United States as “blood thirsty imperialist” for bombing Libya with its Nato allies, the SABC reported.

“We want to ask a simple question to the imperialists. Are you not tired of seeing blood every year? You blood thirsty imperialists,” Malema said.

He was speaking at a protest by hundreds of Numsa members at the US Embassy in Pretoria.

“Every year you are bombing this or that nation, because of your thirstiness for blood. We should all agree that South Africa should not have voted for the resolution…,” said Malema.

It was recently reported that President Jacob Zuma had said that South Africa reiterated its concerns at the misinterpretation of a United Nations resolution.

The resolution authorises a no-fly zone over Libya, which Nato had used to “justify its bombing campaign”.

“They (the United States) can’t think. They don’t know politics.”

Malema also called the war in Libya “sponsored violence”.

He said it was sponsored by countries such as the US, France and Britain. –

Sapa

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Russia warns NATO over Libya action

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2011

PressTV

6th July, 2011

Russian envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin has accused the military alliance of exceeding the UN resolution on Libya and thwarting the political process that can end the conflict.

Rogozin blamed NATO for undermining efforts by the Libyan opposition forces to initiate ceasefire negotiations with unpopular Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

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Military stalemate in Libya heightens US-NATO crisis

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2011

Patrick O’Connor

WSWS

5th July, 2011

Despite nearly four months of daily US-NATO bombing raids over Libya, so-called rebel fighters have failed to make any significant advance beyond the areas they controlled in March. Nor has the Gaddafi government disintegrated, as had previously been anticipated in Washington, London, and Paris. The stalemate in the oil-rich state has heightened the crisis confronting the imperialist powers engaged in the illegal regime-change operation.

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Demand an end to Britain’s warmongering

Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2011


July, 2011
Sometimes foreign affairs impinge on our domestic scene so much that they warrant closer attention, especially as the “fog of war” obscures the real story. Workers are about to have standards of living further eroded amid rounds of cuts that are the worst for generations. At the same time, further bailouts – at our expense – loom and countries in our backyard have their economies downgraded to junk status.
So this declining capitalist system once again manages to find resources to embroil itself in yet another war with no clear exit. The expense is once again extracted from us – or, failing that, from the bank accounts Britain has confiscated from a sovereign nation. That’s why it is absolutely right to make the demand “Hands Off Libya”, to cease the bombing abroad and destruction at home. Instead we have the urgent task of rebuilding Britain.

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Colonizing Libya

Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011

Colonizing Libya by Military, Financial, Political and Propaganda Terrorism

Stephen Lendman

War Is A Crime.org

After three and a half terror bombing months and counting, destroying Libya for wealth and power continues, each imperial nation playing its part in this sinister dirty game, masquerading as liberation.

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Have lobby, will travel

Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

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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Libye: un avenir incertain

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)

Cf2R

 

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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Libya after Gaddafi

Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2011

Victor Kotsev

Asia Times

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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Testimony- the Sorman massacre

Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011

Thierry Mayssan

Voltairenet

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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Immense 1st July demonstration in Tripoli

Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

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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Libya Rebels Reject Another Peace Plan

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

Antiwar.com

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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