qaddafi - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T15:05:54Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/qaddafiWHY LIBYA?https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/why-libya2011-03-20T01:00:00.000Z2011-03-20T01:00:00.000ZTheBlackList Newshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackListNews<div><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">At the onset of America’s invasion of Afghanistan, former US vice President Dick Cheney was quoted as saying the Third World War has already began. Many at that time felt it was the usual American political talk but events subsequently have proved that the US agenda is to remove any national leader who is not ready to handover his natural resources to the Americans.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">A cursory look at the list of countries that have either been invaded or puppets placed in power to do the American will is getting longer by the day. From Iraq to Afghanistan, Egypt and Tunisia, the imperialists have now brought the war to the African continent and Libya is the first stop in long campaign that will ensure that patriotic leaders are removed from power through any means possible.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Now it is Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya that has been invaded by so-called Western democracies who are using surrogate fighters recruited from such infamous and murderous groups as al-qaida in Afghanistan, and those detained in Guantanamo Bay and the eastern European jails to come and kill our African brothers and sisters.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">This determination to either kill the Libyan leader or split the country into two is being done under the thin veneer of a purported UN Security Council resolution that has imposed a no-fly zone on the country. What these so-called teachers and defenders of democracy have however forgotten is that the Security Council is not authorized, according to the UN Charter, to intervene in the internal affairs of any country, and any attempt to do so using any kind of reason will be the legalization of injustice and aggression which will undoubtedly have grave consequences not only for the Middle East but Europe and Africa as a whole.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The so-called no fly zone is a very hypocritical position taken by the world body. This shocking attitude which was promoted by the Arab League to ‘protect the protestors’ from government military attacks is at variance with the Saudi Army’s role in Bahrain which has been ruled by the al-Khalifa dynasty for more than 200 years. In that country, peaceful protests are being broken up through the use of brutal and naked force by the ‘police’ sent by another home of usurper tyranny, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with Saudi troops providing the muscle to commit this infamy with impunity .</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">These acts of genocide have not attracted the attention of the world body that is consumed with an anti-Qaddafi agenda.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">In Libya, an armed insurrection against a legitimate government is on. In all logical situations, a sitting government is to be aided to beat back an invading force but in this case, the opposite is the case as the world is bent on ending the legitimacy of the Libyan leader.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">From Washington we have heard Barak Obama thunder that Libya should hand over the territories it has seized from the hired goons. This statement looked at critically means Libya must be divided into two, one for the imperialists and the other for Libyans, an unheard of case in the world.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The hypocrisy and double standards being exhibited is shocking. U.S. President Obama is warning Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi that his forces must stop attacking innocent civilians or face military action. And that military action is what the world will soon see as the B-52 bombers thunder from their bases loaded with weapons of destruction aimed at Libyans will soon be on their way from their bases in Italy and the various aircraft carriers scattered in the Mediterranean to cause mayhem in Libya.<br /><br />NATO countries have begun moving planes and other military assets closer to Libya to enforce the so-called U.N. Security Council resolution.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 20th March. Libya too will be destroyed - its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, municipal buildings and electricity. There will be numerous "tragic mistakes", "collateral damage", mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, blind and deaf schools and on and on bombed. And the wonders of the Roman remains and earlier, largely enduring and revered in all history's turmoils as Iraq, the nation's history - and humanity's, again as in Iraq and in Afghanistan, will be gone, for ever.<br /><br />The infrastructure will be destroyed. The embargo will remain in place, thus rebuilding will be impossible. Britain, France and the US will decide the country needs "stabilising", "help with reconstruction." They will move in, secure the oil installations and oil fields, the Libyan people will be an incidental inconvenience and quickly become "the enemy", "insurgents", be shot, imprisoned, tortured, abused - and a US friendly puppet "government" will be installed.<br /><br />The invaders will award their companies rebuilding contracts, the money - likely taken from Libya's frozen assets without accounting - will vanish and the country will remain largely in ruins.<br /><br />And the loudest cheerleaders for this, as in Iraq, will be running round TV and radio stations in the UK, Europe and the US, then returning to their safe apartments and their UK/US/Europe paid tenures, in the knowledge that no bombs will be dropping on them. Their children will not be shaking uncontrollably and soiling themselves with terror at the sound of approaching planes. The media, as usual will trumpet how these murderous gangs from the Western world are good for the Libyans as their actions are meant to bring democracy, and free Libyans from a ‘bloodthirsty tyrant’, from the "new Hitler" or the "Butcher of Bengazi, as they have already started calling him.<br />With time the truth will be known but by then Libya will be broken and its people, fleeing, displaced, distraught will be sent back to the stone age while diseases long forgotten will rear their ugly head. Deformed babies will be born as they and their mothers are exposed to the dum-dum and bunker bursting shells manufactured from depleted uranium.<br /><br /></span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The most shocking aspect of this is the silence of individual African governments and the African Union in general over the invasion of a sister nation who is also member of the AU. It was criminal on the part of Nigeria, Gabon and most notably South Africa to have voted along with the likes of France, Great Britain and the US to impose the no-fly zone on Libya.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">So soon South Africa has forgotten that at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle these countries that it has joined today to destabilize Libya were in cahoots with the apartheid regime to deny Africans the right to self-determination. It has also forgotten that Libya was one of the few countries that devoted its resources to the South African liberation struggle just to ensure that the obnoxious white supremacist regime was done away with. The thanks Qaddafi has received from Jacob Zuma is that the dogs of war must be let loose on the people of Libya so that Washington again holds sway over that country.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">The bottom line to all these is that there is a racist agenda afoot and African leaders cannot see it. Ban Ki Moon has never shown any love to Africans since his days as South Korea’s foreign minister. By pushing through this racist agenda, he is just doing what he knows best – Africans must be enslaved again and one way to start this is to replace the patriotic leaders with puppets.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Having succeeded so far, nothing will stop Washington and the dogs of war from invading other African countries if Africans do not stand up and speak with one voice against this 21<sup>st</sup><span> </span>re-colonisation of the continent.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Intelligence reports at our disposal suggest that there is a grand agenda in place to re-conquer the world and impose puppet leaders. From Libya, the next target is Syria, then Algeria and eventually the Islamic Republic of Iran whose resources the Americans and Zionist government of Israel have always coveted since the dawn of time.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Having achieved the regime change agenda in the Middle East, the next target will be the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela whose oil Hugo Chavez has ensured will benefit only his citizens instead of some so-called defenders of democracy and good governance sitting in London, New York, Paris and Washington to be followed by the old foe – Cuba. These will be followed by the invasion of North Korea, Ecuador, Bolivia and Eritrea among others in quick succession.</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">What lovers of democracy, freedom and justice however have always asked: When will NATO enforce the various UN resolutions on Israel so that the Palestinians, owners of the land can also have a homeland? When will NATO force Israel to lift the siege on the West Bank which is a huge concentration camp being operated by the bloodthirsty Zionist regime in the Middle East?</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">While we await the final word from the African Union, we urge all Africans, wherever they are to picket their governments to make a statement on the impending invasion of Libya. This is the time for Africans to show that they are ready to face the future with a renewed strength and confidence that they cannot be pushed around anymore. Enough is enough</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Long live Libya,</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Long live Brother Muammar Qaddafi,</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Long live the Great Al-Fateh Revolution</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></p><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span><br /><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">By <a target="_blank" href="http://yahoo.co.uk">Alimamy Bakarr SANKOH</a></span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">National Committee member’</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;">African Unification Front (AUF).</span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal">------------------------------------</p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"> </p>This is just the beginning of UN enforced imperialism on small sovereign countries. Could Fidel Castro be next? I can see the CIA fomenting trouble among anti-<span>Castroites</span>, followed by US-France invasion. That US-France axis was the force that overthrew Aristide. How come the UN led by France, Britain and the US did not impose a no-fly zone on Israel's bombing of innocent civilians in Gaza and Lebanon?<span> </span><br />Thank you Comfort Boahene for setting the record straight. There have been some feeble comments opposing you on here. But the most depressing thing of all is the support of this barbarous imperialist act from persons on this list whom I respected. They have bought the western propaganda. hook, line and sinker.<span> </span><br />The US has killed over a million in Iraq. I wonder how much they will now kill in Libya.<br /><br /><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><em><strong>Michael Phillips</strong></em>,<span> </span><br />Editor, Hot Calaloo<br /><a href="http://www.hotcalaloo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.hotcalaloo.com</a></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;">Author, Boycott Money and Save Your Soul<br />- Launching The Goodwill Revolution".<br /><a href="http://www.goodwillie.org/" target="_blank">http://www.goodwillie.org</a></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;">===================================</p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"> </p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"> </p><div>From Revolution Online: March 18, 2011</div><div><font size="4">LIBYA. With the U.S. once again involving itself in militarily attacking yet another country, ask yourself: Which country in the world, from its beginnings to the present time, has the bloodiest history of genocide, slavery, invasions, coups, installing and backing brutal regimes, bombings, massacres and mass destruction, including the use of nuclear weapons? And which government imprisons its own people and in particular its minorities at the highest rate in the world?</font></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4">No good can come from U.S. imperialist intervention of any kind.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4">Revolutionary Communist Party, USA</font></div><br />-- <br /><b>Steve Yip</b>, P.O. Box 941, Knickerbocker Station<br />New York, New York 10002-0900<br />866-841-9139 x2670, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:yipzzz@gmail.com">yipzzz@gmail.com</a><br /><br />"Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What's It All About"<br />A Talk by Bob Avakian, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.revolutiontalk.net/">www.revolutiontalk.net</a><p> </p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"> </p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;" class="yiv1690269926MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></p></div>The Image of Racism in Libyan Uprisinghttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-image-of-racism-in-libyan2011-03-08T17:46:42.000Z2011-03-08T17:46:42.000ZMalcolmXavierhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MalcolmXavier<div>March 8, 2011The Image of Racism in Libyan UprisingBy Kwasi Seitu, Institute for Tsunamic Justice<a href="http://www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com">www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com</a>Wash, D.C. - The image of the handsome young boy being in the clutches of a bunch of armed racist, with a gun up against the back of his head, while an apparent Alpha racist questions and threatens him, you can see it in the child’s eye, in his stare. I am not talking about some little black boy caught in the clutches of the Ku Klux Klan, but a little black boy in the hands of murderous racist “rebels” in Libya, as photographed by a Reuters’ photographer and appeared in the New York Times. (3/4/11 “Pictures of the Day,” to view: <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/pictures-of-the-day-libya-and-elsewhere-7/?emc=eta1">http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/pictures-of-the-day-libya-and-elsewhere-7/?emc=eta1</a>)The caption describing the moment captured in the photo was that the little boy was “suspected of being a Gaddafi supporter, “what it did not say was that the boy was “suspect” simply because he was black or an “African,” as has been made clear by the “rebels” forces is grounds enough for death. Although I have yet to see the great “slaughter” that supposedly Qaddafi is committing, I clearly heard the “rebels” declare Afrikans as their enemy and the enemy of their “struggle for freedom.” This means that their “revolution” is not an Afrikan revolution, it is opposed to Afrikan liberation and unification, that it is just as much anti-Afrikan as much as it is anti-Qaddafi, and murderously so as they have slaughtered untold numbers of people just because they were black.What happened to that little Afrikan child at the hands of those who claim to be operating from a higher moral ground? The so-called “rebels” have killed many, and there is reason to believe that many of those killed have been darker than a paper bag, and for no other reason. Where were the boys parents? Did the “rebels” kill the boy’s parents? The boy looked to be no more than ten or eleven years old, yet the Times described him as a “young man,” which is the same as when the white reporter called a pair of black folk “looters” and white people doing the same thing “hurricane survivors.” Here was grown man was holding a gun to the back of this little boys head, while another was forcefully in his face, it looked like the scene where the South Vietnamese officer assassinated a purported “Viet-Cong” right in front of the camera.Black folk in the U.S. and the entire Afrikan Diaspora must say no to any country arming, or lending any support to the “opposition,” the “rebels,” or the “rebellion” in Libya. In particular, we must engage in discussions so that black people as a whole in the U.S. will oppose the Obama regimes efforts to build up to some sort of “intervention” invasion, or at least to backing the “rebels” to violently overthrow the government. We need to help our people and the general public to look beyond the rhetoric, lies, and half-truths of the mainstream press. The mainstream press has failed to report on the plight of dark complexioned Afrikans in Libya, and due to its own racist nature, does not see any significance in the anti-Afrikan tone of the supposed rebellion for “freedom.” Even the so-called “leftist” or progressive alternative news media has utterly failed to identify, report on, and speak to the anti-black nature of the rebellionThe “rebels” have acknowledged and openly that they are the descendants of foreigners to Afrika, they are not Afikan, they are not black. They are the descendants of those who invaded and took land in Afrika by force, a fact shown by numerous scholars and historians such as Chancellor Williams, John Henry Clark, Ayi Kwei Armah, Walter Rodney, just to name a few. Fact is that many of the blacks accused of being foreigners and mercenaries, were Libyan citizens in Afrika, and looking very much Afrikan. The boy, I did not see the picture of a person that should not be in Libya, but a person in the hands of a bunch of bastard descendants of foreign invasion, domination, and occupation.The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have given no indication that they are even aware of, more less committed to Afrikan liberation, at least we have evidence that Qaddafi was, and now we hear the anti-Afrikan tenor of the rebels.Afrikan unity will never be possible as long as these people are allowed to remain in Afrika without being Afrikan themselves. Sub-Saharan Afrika must not only be on guard against the “destroyers,” but the “predators” who arrived in Afrika across the desert through invasion, conquest, and occupation. Four centuries Afrika has given these people the opportunity to become Afrikan, by which they have been able to maintain their claims of legitimacy as an Afrikan state. The battle in the Sudan now spans across northern Afrika, it may be by coincidence that this domino- effect of grassroots uprising to topple old-line tyrannies across northern Afrika, accept in Sudan. It is most unfortunate that the Afrikan Liberation struggle has yet to produce anything more than bright revolutionary moments. It appears that Thomas Sankara, who Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi supported and help to bring to power in Burkina Faso, was the last in a very short line of true Afrikan revolutionary leaders such as Amilicar Cabral and Samora Machel. There seems to be none now, I would say that Afrikans on the continent are in the same position as Afrikans around the world, leaderless and caught up in the machinations of the white or “West” world.I have no doubt that the CIA has had some involvement with promoting the uprising in Libya, that the U.S. has special forces in the country at this moment training and arming the so-called “rebels.” This is Libya and the overthrow of Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, who is a bigger and older target than Saddam Hussein ever was. For the U.S., Libya has been Cuba on the Mediterranean, and Qaddafi the Fidel Castro of Africa. Note the lack of U.S. concern for the killing of peaceful protesters in Bahrain and the brutal repression of them in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and even in Iraq. Yet, every day Obama and Clinton are beating the war drums and fanning unsubstantiated claims to villanize Qaddafi and buoy the so-called “rebels.” And we are hearing the same tone that came from the Bush regime in their build up to launching “endless war” on a tactic of which the U.S. is the greatest perpetrator and practitioner.Black folk in Amerikkka should and need to make their voices heard on this global development with critical implications for Afrika and the whole of the global Afrikan liberation struggle. And we must come out uncompromisingly on our side in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Chad, Sudan, and Somalia. However, we cannot affect that change with coming to address the Afrikan liberation struggle in our own communities and houses. Some would argue that Robert Mugabe continues to represent the principles of the Afrikan liberation movement, however, this still does not necessarily make him qualified to continue serve as a leader or even as a symbol.Clearly, the Afrikan liberation struggle continues, but always toward unity. I cannot see my way to supporting a racist mob as “rebels,” even less as revolutionaries. I have my doubts that what is going on in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia have anything to do with Afrikan liberation, if anything, they appear more prone to identifying with, and serving Western interest and essentially helping to return the whole of Afrika firmly back into the hands of the former colonial powers.It all comes down to that picture of that little black boy that the NY Times labeled as a “young man,” with a gun to his head and a clearly angry racist man in his face asking questions and making accusations, and we are not supposed to ask “What happened to that little boy?” because he is “Afrikan,” black in a land of light-skinned descendants of foreign invaders and occupiers who have made it clear that they are not part of the continent of Afrika. Even worse, they see all Afrikans as enemies. I conclude with this question to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, "What happened to that little black boy?"To contact Kwasi Seitu, visit <a href="http://www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com">www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com</a></div>