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Gaddafi overthrew a British installed King, brought Libya from Africa’s poorest nation to be its wealthiest with a UN Quality of Life Index higher than 9 European countries. A million Libyans out of a total population 6, desperately demonstrated for their Green Book Democracy and beloved Gaddafi outside Tripoli as Britain & France bombed. Left Progressives either collaborated with or were silent re lies used to destroy Libya
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After a Colonel Gaddafi overthrew the Colonial Powers installed King in a bloodless coup, Libya rose from being the poorest nation in Africa to be Africa’s wealthiest per capita with a UN Quality of Life Index higher than nine European countries including Russia. This was unreported in Western imperialist media as was the nearly one million Libyans out of a total population six, wildly and desperately demonstrating for their Green Book Democracy waving photo posters of their revolutionary leader outside Tripoli as British and French warplanes were bombing and zeroing in on Africa’s hero, the nemesis of Western imperialism, Muammar Gaddafi.
For forty years, as in the case of Fidel Castro, mainstream media, owned and controlled by investors in genocide, battered away with Gaddafi being a ‘brutal dictator,’ never mentioning his decentralized Arab Socialist government’s fantastic achievements in high quality universal education and health care; its continually declining infant mortality rate saving many thousands of lives; every family owning an apartment of their own for except those who wished to live in traditional tents, likewise, everyone able to afford a car and dirt cheap gasoline in a cleanly run nation whose constitution prohibited wage labor, replaced instead by sharing partnerships. Also unmentioned by Gaddafi’s would-to-become accessories to his assassination was the incredibly awesome in proportion huge acuifer project of underground rivers that were turning the dessert green and bringing drinking water to coastal cities. The gigantic aquifer system expansion that was underway now lies in ruins – along with Libya’s cities.
Naturally unmentioned in corporate conglomerate monopolized media was Gaddafi’s use of Libya’s oil wealth and leadership as Chairman of the African Union, in guiding Africa toward eventual freedom from European exploitation and the continual political and military interventions that create the chaos in which foreign ‘free enterprise’ can function to maximum neocolonialist accumulation of bloody capital and continued control of Africa’s natural resources. Of course carefully unmentioned was that Gaddafi was being effective in blocking the progress of US Pentagon’s AFRICON organizing of a US dominated African military force supposedly to confront the terrorism which the CIA itself had been sponsoring since the US invasions and occupation wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Global media’s audience would never be aware of very worrisome threat to the Central Banks and the US dollar that the forty-three plus billion in gold stored in the Libyan National Bank was as it had begun to be minted, under agreement with Iran, into a gold currency intended to replace trading in US dollar.
History books in the not too distant future will surely call this
incredible CNN led propaganda success of shouting on high about ‘Libyan Government crimes’ without one single corroborating video or photo (rather one of a few hundred people jumping up and down, or a video of people running in the indistinguishable darkness to the sound of someone firing shots, or of a plane in the air, or months later, of a bomb crater in a field where no one was hurt, but pointed to for days by CNN’s Nic Robertson), and in spite of early reports by BBC and Reuters of incredibly huge and brutal massacres of captured black Libyan soldiers, that were squelched on US evening news programs. Might the reader please see this historian’s scrupulously documented day by day history of the first months:
Capitalism’s Warplanes: CIA & al Qaeda Destroy Socialist Libya’s 53rd Highest Living Standard By jay janson, OpEdNews, 4/22/2011
The pathetic speech of a US president desperately attempting to justify his ordering a massive US Air Force and Navy missile and bombing attack to overthrow a small African nation to be continued by the warplanes of the USA allied former Colonial Powers that had kept Libya in poverty in order to steal its oil, will surely be highlighted in eventual lawsuits against citizens of the US and NATO nations for wrongful death, destruction of property and theft of natural resources. Readers please consider looking at your authors follow up documentations:
There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson By Jay Janson June 20 2011 “Information Clearing House” -
and Counter Currents, Kerala, India
Now that Libya is now utterly destroyed, let the reader consider the roll of Western alternate media, supposedly representative of Anglo-American left progressives opposed to imperialist capitalism, or what Martin Luther King called “atrocity wars and covert violence meant to maintain unjust predatory investments.”
Googling the name of Znet founder Michael Albert followed by ‘….and Gaddafi,’ brings up a terrifically clear example – a long diatribe of unbelievably preposterous lies, mis and disinformation ending in modest support for the US-NATO missile attacks, bombing and other interventions in Libya.
Stephen Shalom & Michael Albert Answer Questions on Libya, Apr 6, 2011
Next, the reader is referred to the antics of Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin and a pertinent article by Finian Cunningham published in Global Research on Democracy Now.
For years, your author forced himself to watch Amy Goodman on her Democracy Now program refer derogatorily to the ‘Gaddafi regime’ and promote the lies that CIA fed CNN was promoting regarding the so called ‘civil war’ in Libya. E.g., from her broadcast of FEBRUARY 22, 2011: AMY GOODMAN: “The Libyan government faces international condemnation for a vicious assault on the growing uprising against the four-decade rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. On Monday, Libyan troops and pro-government mercenaries attacked a huge demonstration in the capital of Tripoli. Armed forces hunted down protesters in the streets, while Libyan warplanes and helicopters fired on them from above.”
A couple of years later this author got to confront Amy Goodman personally as her company was filming an Occupy Wall Street meeting. ‘Amy, you must be proud of your great and loyal contribution toward the destruction of Libya and Gaddafi.’ Amy looked away.
As Finian Cunningham documents below, Amy Goodman and Democracy Now have continued on with criminally skewered reporting on the similar Syrian ‘civil war.’
“Democracy Now” and the “Progressive” Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders For Imperialism and War
By Finian Cunningham
Seems that once a great lie has been turned into a truth by the 98% of the sources of print and electronic information owned by corporate investors in the illegal use of US-NATO armed forces, most all the Internet based progressive newsletters and magazines, most of which suffer from weak financial support, will quite naturally shy away from confronting something believed as truth by a majority of Americans (not to mention a majority of Europeans and probably a majority in the non Western satellite audience of the Western media giants). There are always plenty of other issues to report on, issues that bring no danger of loss of financial contributions from the large and only liberal segment of Alternate media readerships.
Such was the silent roll of the majority of ‘peace and justice’ organizations which backhandedly supported the defamation of Gaddafi and his Libya, in spite of Libya having had at that time the 53rd highest UN Quality of Life Index in the world and of course #1 in Africa. The criminality of such silence before, during and after, Libya’s destruction is compounded by their silence during the enthusiastic collaboration of many now recognized CIA assets within alternate media.
With the left progressives and peace and justice groups supporting or acquiescing to pivotal and basic lies, we arrived at a point of universal credence and acceptance of deception wherein the Chinese Ambassador to the UN apologetically defending his nations diplomatic abstention and refusal to use China’s veto to block the proposed ‘No Fly Zone,’ noted at the conclusion of the his post vote statement explanating China’s abstention, ‘… “and then there is the concern for protecting lives,” as if Gaddafi was, as bellowed about everywhere in media and by politicians, ‘about to massacre his own people ‘ in Benghazi. Of course, there was no reporting of the peaceful results and welcomed relief of towns liberated by the advancing Libyan army and militias amid the daily rants of against ‘brutal tyrant Gaddafi and his ‘regime.’