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U.S. Funded ‘Activist’ Becomes President of Tunisia | From A-Z, the Arab Spring is Fake

“It is a necessity to research the backgrounds and affiliations of all political groups and NGOs, and assess both their funding and their affiliations. The National Endowment for Democracy is indisputably disingenuous in both their stated cause and their actions. Their board of directors alone betrays their motto of “Supporting freedom around the world,” as it is almost entirely made up of corporate-fascists, Neo-Conservative warmongers, and corporate lobbyists. The organizations, opposition groups, media outlets, and NGOs, they support seek to destabilize and destroy the nations they infest.”

Dec 13, 2011

From A-Z, the Arab Spring is Fake.

Cross posted from LIBYA 360°

Tony Cartalucci

December 13, 2011 – The BBC hails Tunisia’s assembly and their election of a new president in their article, “Tunisian activist, Moncef Marzouki, named president.” What the BBC predictably fails to mention is that Marzouki’s organization, the Tunisian League for Human Rights, was a US National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros Open Society-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) member organization.

Photo: Tunisia’s new “president,” Moncef Marzouki, a veteran Western collaborator whose last two decades of political activity have been supported and subsidized by the US government and US corporate-financier funded foundations.

It was earlier reported in “Soros Celebrates the Fall of Tunisia,” that Marzouki was named “interim-president” of Tunisia and that the myriad of NGOs and opposition organizations that worked with him to overthrow the government of Tunisia were fully subsidized and backed by the US government and US corporate-funded foundations.
Marzouki, who spent two decades in exile in Paris, France, was also founder and head of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, a collaborating institution with the US NED World Movement for Democracy (WMD) including for a “Conference on Human Rights Activists in Exile” and a participant in the WMD “third assembly” alongside Marzouki’s Tunisian League for Human Rights, sponsored by NED, Soros’ Open Society, and USAID.

Marzouki, along with his Libyan counterpart Abdurrahim el-Keib, formally of the Petroleum Institute, sponsored by British Petroleum (BP), Shell, France’s Total, the Japan Oil Development Company, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, makes for the second Western proxy installed into power either by covert sedition or overt military aggression, during the US-engineered “Arab Spring.” Western proxies in Egypt including Mohamed ElBaradei and Mamdouh Hamza are also vying for power in the wake of similar foreign-fomented unrest, while NATO backed militants harbored in Turkey are attempting to overthrow the government of Syria by force.

The Arab Spring is Fake

Gene Sharp of the Albert Einstein Institution penned the book “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” originally designated for the destabilization and recolonization of Myanmar, still called “Burma” throughout much of the West. Sharp’s book would be utilized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) throughout Eastern Europe, throughout Asia, and eventually, in 2011, for the US-engineered “Arab Spring.”
According to Sharp’s own Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) 2000-2004 annual report, AEI had been sponsored by the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its funded subsidiary International Republican Institute (IRI) to train activists in Serbia (page 18) Zimbabwe (page 23) and Myanmar (page 26) to help overthrow their respective sovereign governments.

Australia’s Southern Cross University’s “Activating Human Rights & Peace (AHRP)” conference had put out a revealing account of their 2008 proceedings illustrating that all of Gene Sharp’s work, beyond what was even mentioned in his own institution’s annual report, had been fully funded and in support of the US government and its global domineering agenda. Beginning on page 26, Sharp’s affiliations, in particular with the National Endowment for Democracy, which is described as carrying out “a lot of work that was formerly undertaken by the CIA,” as well as the Ford Foundation, and billionaire Wall Street patriarch George Soros’ Open Society Institute are fleshed out in immense detail.

The “Arab Spring” itself was not spontaneous, nor was it indigenous. Rather it was a was a premeditated geopolitical plot engineered by US corporate-financier interests years in advance. The New York Times in its article, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” clearly stated as much when it reported, “a number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington.”

Further confirming this were public statements made by the US State Department-sponsored “Alliance for Youth Movements” (AYM) counting Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement among its above mentioned inaugural AYM summit attendees in New York City as far back as 2008. Foreign Policy magazine admited that April 6 received further training from CANVAS in Serbia, before fomenting unrest in Egypt. FP magazine would also report that “CANVAS has worked with dissidents from almost every country in the Middle East; the region contains one of CANVAS’s biggest successes, Lebanon, and one of its most disappointing failures, Iran.”

The destabilization in Iran, of course, was drawn up by corporate-funded Brookings Institution, as articulated in its “Which Path to Persia?” report, with the actual mechanics of organizing the foreign-funded revolution subcontracted to organizations like US-funded CANVAS, NED and its subsidiaries.

In an April 2011 AFP report, Michael Posner, the assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor, stated that the “US government has budgeted $50 million in the last two years to develop new technologies to help activists protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments.” The report went on to explain that the US (emphasis added) “organized training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of the world. A session held in the Middle East about six weeks ago gathered activists from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon who returned to their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there.” Posner would add, “They went back and there’s a ripple effect.” The ripple effect Posner is talking about is of course the “spontaneous” “Arab Spring” and bears a striking resemblance to the campaign of destabilization Gene Sharp and AEI perpetuated throughout Eastern Europe as described in detail in the above mentioned AHRP report.

Conclusion

With a similar gambit now playing out in Russia, fueled by the exact same Western organizations and foundations, not only is it obvious that Tunisia was overthrown, not by spontaneous, indigenous protests, but rather premeditated foreign-funded sedition carried out by the likes of Moncef Marzouki and his US-funded opposition group, it is also obvious that Tunisia was just one of many nations destabilized in the largest concerted geopolitical reordering since World War II. With Russia now targeted by foreign-fomented color revolutions, the US’ declaration of a new “American Pacific Century” aiming to contain China, and Western proxies beginning to climb into positions of power throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East, it is clear that the campaign of encirclement and destabilization of both Russia and China by the forces of global corporate fascism described in February 2011?s “The Middle East & then the World” is indeed an unfolding reality.

It is a necessity to research the backgrounds and affiliations of all political groups and NGOs, and assess both their funding and their affiliations. The National Endowment for Democracy is indisputably disingenuous in both their stated cause and their actions. Their board of directors alone betrays their motto of “Supporting freedom around the world,” as it is almost entirely made up of corporate-fascists, Neo-Conservative warmongers, and corporate lobbyists. The organizations, opposition groups, media outlets, and NGOs, they support seek to destabilize and destroy the nations they infest.

Exposing and fighting this disingenuous enterprise is important. Equally important is to identify the corporate-financier interests driving its true agenda and the global elites’ overarching plan of achieving global hegemony. Boycott these interests entirely out of business, and replace them with business models, institutions, and bodies of governance that truly serve “we the people.”

http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/u-s-funded-activist-becomes-president-of-tunisia/

HUMANITARIAN WAR IN LIBYA? THERE IS NO EVIDENCE!
LIBYA AND THE BIG LIE: USING HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS TO LAUNCH WARS

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THE BRUTAL MURDER OF MUAMMAR AND MU’TASSIM GADDAFI

WATCH: NGOs Behind the War on Libya – Nov. 27th, 2011 Julien Teil Interview

“The Humanitarian War” is a film about the demonization of Gaddafi in the run-up to the war in Libya. In this carefully researched documentary, Julien Teil examines the documents and interrogates the NGOs behind the campaign to oust Gaddafi, and shows the lack of evidence for the alleged war crimes that supposedly justified UN intervention.

This is a GRTV Feature Interview (below) with documentary filmmaker Julien Teil where they discuss the lead-up to the war on Libya, and whether it can happen again in Syria.

http://youtu.be/XIFrrcAuGaI

Humanitarian War in Libya : There is no evidence !

Syria & Libya NGOs Weapons Parallels – Moeen Raoof: Moeen has visited Libya many times and works with charity organisations. He chronicles some of their dirty deeds.

http://youtu.be/UQKXBQecqZw

www.thehumanitarianwar.com

http://en.m4.cn/2011/11/17/justifying-a-humanitarian-war-against-syria-the-sinister-role-of-the-ngos/

Hillary Clinton Aid Appointed New Executive Director of Amnesty International U.S.A.

Cross posted from LIBYA 360°

Editor’s Note:

Ms. Nossel is also the Visiting Senior Fellow for Global Governance at the Council of Foreign Relations. She is known for popularizing the term “smart power” and is the founder of Democracy Arsenal. A.V.

Voltaire Network
Links and video added by Libya 360°

Suzanne Nossel, former assistant to Richard Holbrooke in his capacity as UN Ambassador and currently Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for International Organization Affairs, has been selected as the new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. In the discharge of her duties at the State Department, she diligently exploited human rights to benefit imperial ambitions.

Ms. Nossel had previously worked for Human Rights Watch, as well as for Bertelsmann Media Worldwide and the Wall Street Journal as Vice President of Strategy and Operations.

The AI-USA Board of Directors deemed that Suzanne Nossel’s commitment to the Clinton and Obama administrations was sufficient proof of her competence and decided not to hold a grudge against her for the crimes committed in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, etc.

Ms. Nossel has launched several campaigns against Iran, Libya and Syria. In recent months she made a name for herself by misinforming the Human Rights Council in Geneva with a view to getting the resolution authorizing the war on Libya adopted by the Security Council. Ms. Nossel’s allegations have since been debunked.

HUMANITARIAN WAR IN LIBYA? THERE IS NO EVIDENCE!
LIBYA AND THE BIG LIE: USING HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS TO LAUNCH WARS

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THE BRUTAL MURDER OF MUAMMAR AND MU’TASSIM GADDAFI

JULIEN TEIL: “How well-connected NGOs constructed a case for intervention in Libya without any evidence whatsoever.”

HUMANITARIAN WAR: INTERVIEW WITH JULIEN TEIL

18 Friday Nov 2011

Cross posted from LIBYA 360°

Interview 411 – Julien Teil
James Corbett
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Today we talk to Julien Teil, the creator of an important documentary on the lead up to war in Libya called “The Humanitarian War.” We discuss the background research that shows how well-connected NGOs constructed a case for intervention in Libya without any evidence whatsoever to prove what they were alleging. We also talk about the possibility that we are watching the exact same events playing out in Syria at the moment and how people can help Julien complete his full-length documentary.

Websites:

La guerre humanitaire (original French version)
Link To: laguerrehumanitaire.fr
The Humanitarian War (English version)
Link To: thehumanitarianwar.com
The filmmaker’s blog
Link To: tumblr.com

HUMANITARIAN WAR IN LIBYA? THERE IS NO EVIDENCE!
ISRAEL AND LIBYA: PREPARING AFRICA FOR THE “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”
LIBYA AND THE BIG LIE: USING HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS TO LAUNCH WARS

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Justifying a “Humanitarian War” against Syria? The Sinister Role of the NGOs

Invasion of Libya

Julien Teil | Thursday, November 17, 2011

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The National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, is an organization that presents itself as an NGO officially dedicated to “the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world”. But in reality it gets 95% of its budget from the United States Congress. It was officially created by the Reagan administration in 1982.

The nature of the NED has led many contemporary intellectuals and researchers to describe it as an agency enabling the secret services of the US to overthrow governments that the US State Department dislikes.

This description was supported by the testimony of Oliviet Guilmain, a researcher at the CECE (Centre for the Comparative Study of Elections), during an information session at the French Senate concerning financing of the electoral process. It is known that the NED finances opposition parties in numerous countries and provides special aid to exiles and opponents of regimes targeted by the US State Department.

In the case of Syria, NED’s main organization is the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. It is also a partner of the International Human Rights Federation (FIDH) which received $140,000 following a meeting in December 2009 between Carl Gershman and self-styled French human rights organizations. NED’s French contact was François Zimeray, who was former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner’s Ambassador for Human Rights. Those present during that meeting included the Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD), the African section of AEDH (Act Together for Human Rights), Reporters Without Borders, SOS Racisme and the FIDH.

The International Federation of Human Rights is thus an official partner of the NED, as is also shown by its support for the allegations made by the ex-secretary general of the Libyan Human Rights League – also attached to the FIDH – against the government of Moammer Kadhafi. Those allegations, also supported by the NGO “U.N Watch”, were what set off the diplomatic procedures against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

In the case of Syria, Dr. Radwan Ziadeh is the director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. His highly impressive biography makes clear his engagement is in favor of US foreign policy in the Middle East. In particular, he is a member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington. He was present alongside Aly Abuzakuuk – one of the NED representatives in Libya – for the Round Table of the Democracy Awards, which is an event that honors so-called “human rights activists” by the NED.

Moreover, there are strong similarities between the process that created the Humanitarian War in Libya and what is being elaborated in regard to Syria. For example, UN Watch, an organization that coordinates the operations of the NED and the FIDH in Geneva, has already launched several petitions against the Syrian regime and Bachar Al-Assad. These petitions against Syria make the same allegations of massacres as those put forth by the ex-secretary of the Libyan Human Rights League, Sliman Bouchuiguir, at the UN Human Rights Council against Libya.

It is therefore an urgent matter to denounce these procedures. It is all the more important since recent history shows us that these allegations were not verified in the case of Libya. Nor was there any proof based on any solid evidence about the allegations made against Tripoli, contrary to the claims of the International Criminal Court.

Julien Teil is a videographer and investigative documentary film maker from France.

From Global Research

http://en.m4.cn/2011/11/17/justifying-a-humanitarian-war-against-syria-the-sinister-role-of-the-ngos/

Will the ICC Act? Indictment against NATO

"The violation of international and humanitarian law, supporting and financing terrorism, dismantling of countries, genocide, and terrorism started in Serbia and as it seems, it will end up in Syria and Iran. And then, who is the next station on the line Eastwards? The civilian casualties have been countless. Libya is the most recent one and it has a special place due to the huge amount of evidence and bravery of its people."

16.11.2011

Is the International Criminal Court at The Hague a real court which respects and uphold international law, or is it an insult to the precept that international law is applied fairly and is Mr. Moreno Ocampo in fact working against his profession, destroying the notion that the world community’s so-called international forum is impartial? Let us see.

In addition to the case we presented in this column on November 5, 2011*, here is a seven-point indictment against NATO, which shall be delivered tomorrow at the ICC. We will charter its progress, we will charter the correspondence and we will examine very carefully the way in which it is received and acted upon. Due to the fact that numerous attempts will be made to hack and to interfere, we shall take the opportunity to disseminate this material widely across the Internet and thank those who wish to do so, believing that the more public opinion is informed about the criminal nature of NATO’s actions and the more the ICC is scrutinised, the nearer we shall be towards having a world community which acts with one set of weights and measures, implemented equally on all.

Indictment against NATO:

1. Violation of international law

2. War of aggression

3. Crimes against humanity

4. Genocide

6. Terrorism

7. Financing of terrorism.

Accused countries, separately, members of UN are as follows:

Belgium

Bulgaria

Canada

Denmark

France

Greece

Italy

Jordan

Netherlands

Norway

Qatar

Romania

Spain

Sweden

Turkey

UAE

UK

USA

During the past decade NATO countries have deliberately violated international and humanitarian law, undertaking wars of aggression, crimes against humanity, genocide, supporting and financing terrorism. All of this was done under a false pretext and with the help of mass media which spread false and fabricated lies all around the globe.

The first one to start with is Serbia, followed by Afghanistan, Iraq and finally ended up with the crimes committed in Libya, leaving come cities look like WWII just ended[1]. It is enough to see the picture of city of Sirte[2] which resembles Dresden after WWII.

Being aware of the fact that there is no strong international mechanism which could impose sanctions or mechanisms which could take them accountable and liable for the above-mentioned crimes, NATO as an organization as well as its member countries separately commenced crimes that were hitherto unheard of. The pilot project for such actions was bombardment of Serbia.

A war crime is a war crime, whether it was announced or not nor has it limitation of legal proceedings. For that purpose quoted are all countries devastated and ruined by NATO and its member countries separately, but the focus will be only on Libya, for it is the last and the best documented case.

The pretext and the framework for the attack on Libya by NATO countries was United Nations resolution 1973, which authorized a ban on flights and measures "to protect civilians and civilian populated areas" whilst excluding "a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory"[3].

The hidden goal was a regime change in Libya which was confirmed by former NATO military commander General Wesley Clarke, in that as early as 2001, the Pentagon was instructed to prepare for war against Libya[4], long before Libya became mentioned in the mass media for being "a problem" and its citizens in need for protection. At the very least, this is an undoubtedly confessed act of colonialism.

In the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV)[5]). In particular, according to this resolution:

"Every State has the duty to refrain in its international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations. Such a threat or use of force constitutes a violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations and shall never be employed as a means of settling international issues.

Evidence:

NATO attacks are coordinated with the military activities of rebel groupings, so that NATO basically bombs them into areas, including the capital and other cities in Libya. The coordination of NATO’s aerial bombing and naval blockade of Libya with rebel forces is unquestionably an act of participation on behalf of one of the belligerent forces against the other – the government of Libya. And in that sense it is a perfect parallel to what happened in Yugoslavia in 1999, where NATO bombed the country mercilessly for 78 days in coordination and in conjunction with the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army[6].

A war of aggression constitutes a crime against the peace, for which there is responsibility under international law".

Evidence:

NATO operations in Libya: Operation Unified Protector. There were over 21,000 air missions flown over Libya since March 31, of which almost 8,000 are combat sorties. And what is documented even in Western news sources, is that Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown was attacked by NATO warplanes and earlier, a couple of days ago, the major governmental compound in Tripoli was attacked by as many as 64 missiles[7].

"In accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations, States have the duty to refrain from propaganda for wars of aggression".

Evidence:

The Libyan Leadership, the military and political establishment were accused of serious war crimes which later on proved to be a false flag event.

On 30th July NATO bombed the Libyan TV Station[8]. NATO said the air strikes aimed to degrade Libyan ruler Gaddafi’s "use of satellite television as a means to intimidate the Libyan people and incite acts of violence against them".

"Striking specifically these critical satellite dishes will reduce the regime’s ability to oppress civilians while [preserving] television broadcast infrastructure that will be needed after the conflict," said a Nato statement.

This is nothing more and nothing else than a pure Psychological operation which is planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. They are an important part of the range of diplomatic, informational, military, and economic activities available to the US.[9]

The purpose of United States psychological operations (PSYOP) is to induce or reinforce behavior favorable to US objectives.

NATO gave false statements to delude the vast majority of the world’s population and to gain public support by spreading false and fabricated news and information about the facts in Libya. Later on in Qatar NATO set up the stage resembling a Green Square in Tripoli to show how Tripoli had fallen even though that place was nowhere near Tripoli"[10].

A documentary which reveals all about media propaganda called "Libya, forbidden truth about Libya" made by Milovan Drecun is available on youtube[11].

Every State has the duty to refrain from any forcible action which deprives peoples referred to in the elaboration of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of their right to self-determination and freedom and independence.

Evidence:

Bearing in mind that siege tactics have been outlawed by the Geneva Conventions, in particular, Article 14 of the second Protocol to the Geneva Conventions states, "Starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited. It is therefore prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless for that purpose objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations, and supplies and irrigation works."

NATO countries and member countries separately punished civilians who were against NTC and against foreign intervention throughout Libya. This is a clear crime against humanity.

To list just a few Sample Crimes:

21.03.2011. Tens of civilians killed on 31st of March in Gharyan city in western Libya (video).
07.04.2011. — NATO bombers killed 15 rebels and wounded 22 on the outskirts of Brega.
20.04.2011. TRIPOLI NATO Bombing The Libyan Arab Association For Human Rights (video).
27.04.2011. — NATO attacked the city of Misrata, killing 12 people and wounding 5 others.
30.04.2011. — The bombing of the Downs Syndrome School in Tripoli (video).
30.04.2011.— NATO killed inocent civilinas: The youngest son of our great leader Saif Al arab gaddafi was only 29 years old, grandchildren of our Great Leader, Saif Mohammed Muammar Gaddafi was one year and 3 months (born on 30 January 2010) , Carthage Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi was 2 years and 9 months old (born on 2 August 2008) and Mastura Humaid (daughter of Aisha) was 4 months and half (she was born on 15 December 2010) (video).
09.05.2011. — 600 civilians are reported dead after getting into trouble on thier boat. They send urgent SOS messages to NATO, but they were ignored (video).
13.05.2011. The 11 imams (spiritual leaders of Islam) that were killed. The imams were killed in a NATO bombing in the city of Brega (east), which also injured about 50 people. (video)
17.05.2011.—The NATO attack on Libya’s Anti-Corruption Agency on May 17 was extremely convenient for some Westrern politicians (video).
12.06.2011. — The bombing of the University of Tripoli. Death toll not yet established. (link) or photo evdence.
15.06.2011. — At least 12 people were killed and two injured when a NATO air strike hit a bus Wednesday evening in Libya’s Kikla city (video).
19.06.2011. — 9 civilians were killed by a NATO air strike on Tripoli (video).
19.06.2011. — Massacre of Al-Hamedi family 15 civilians, including 3 children, were killed by another NATO air strike on Sorman (link).
19.06.2011. — Firetracs was bombed (video).
22.06.2011. — The bombing of the Great Man made Waterway irrigation system, which supplies most Libyans with their drinking water. Water for 4,5 million INOCENT CIVILIANS IN LIBYA (video).
22.06.2011. — Zliten – many civilians were chopped into pieces. (link)
28.06. 2011. — NATO air strike killed 16 civilians (one whole family killed) and more than 20 injured in public market in Tawergha east of Misurata (video).
04.07.2011. — NATO bombing civilian checkpoint in ZWARA. (video)
15.07.2011. — At least 12 people were killed and 2 injured when a NATO. The air strike hit the bus with inocent civilians in Kikla City. (video)
17.07.2011. — Multiple urban areas were bombed simultaneously this morning. Anywhere from 60 to 75 bombs may have been dropped mostly in the areas of Tajura and Seraj, according to eyewitness reports. (video)
23.07.2011. — The bombing of the factory which makes the pipes for the water system, and the murder of 6 of its employees.
24.07.2011. NATO bombing cattle and poultry project in Torghae city (video).
24. 07.2011. Libya war: NATO Press Briefing, 15 civilians are dead in Tawergha (video).
24.07.2011. —The bombing of the Hospital at Zliten. Resulting in the murder of a minimum, of 50 civilians many of them children.(video).
25.07.2011. NATO bombed food storage in Zlitan.(video).
25.07.2011. — 20 civilians were killed by NATO air strikes in Bir al Ghanam. (video)
30.07.2011. — NATO warplanes also repeatedly bombed a Libyan television station, killing 3 and injuring 15.
02.08.2011. — Law School In Zlitan (Zliten) (video).
04. 08.2011. — Woman and two children (video).
07.08.2011. — NATO bombed today the vegetable market in Tripoli (link).
08.08.2011. — Libya: NATO MASSACRED 85 CIVILIANS: 33 CHILDREN, 32 WOMEN and 20 MEN (video)…

The persistent on-going bombing of the civilian population in Zliten, Sirte and Tripoli, death toll not yet established.

All4Peace & LibyaSOS.

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/11/operation-unified-protector-nato-in.html

Every State has the duty to refrain from organizing or encouraging the organization of irregular forces or armed bands including mercenaries, for incursion into the territory of another State.

Every State has the duty to refrain from organizing, instigating, assisting or participating in acts of civil strife or terrorist acts in another State or acquiescing in organized activities within its territory directed towards the commission of such acts, when the acts referred to in the present paragraph involve a threat or use of force.

Evidence:

Supply of French Milan anti-tank missiles, Swedish Carl Gustav 84mm rifles, 68mm rockets and mortars and Maadi assault rifles from Egypt; this, in addition to the British, French and Italian military advisors helping the terrorists. The Great SocialistPeople’sLibyan ArabJamahiriya monetary assets were frozen and later on given to the National Provisional Council. Not to mention the bombardment on behalf of rebel forces.

The territory of a State shall not be the object of military occupation resulting from the use of force in contravention of the provisions of the Charter. The territory of a State shall not be the object of acquisition by another State resulting from the threat or use of force. No territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal.

Evidence:

NATO made acquisition of Libyan land to set up exterritorial military base.

Similarly, the U.S. has substantially upgraded air bases in Afghanistan, including those bordering Central Asian nations and close to the Iranian border, and there is no indication they are ever going to abandon them, as they are not going to abandon military bases in Iraq and other places. It is a lot easier to bring NATO into one’s country or have it forced in than to get it out[12].

No State may use or encourage the use of economic political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights and to secure from it advantages of any kind. Also, no State shall organize, assist, foment, finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another State, or interfere in civil strife in another State."

Evidence:

NATO countries organized, assisted, foment, financed and incited civil strife in Libya by political and other types of measures to coerce Libya to subordinate its natural resources by putting in power puppet regime, who openly declared that the companies from the countries who helped them in a military coup to overthrow the regime, will sign lucrative contracts in the oil sector.

1. Mahmoud Jibril – a university lecturer educated, and for several years resident, in the US and whose studies was mentored by a renowned CIA case officer working for CIA in Iran during the CIA/staged coup there in 1953[13].

2. An American economics professor by the name of Ali Tarhouni[14].

3. A senior Al-Qaeda asset/educator/leader previously operating in Afghanistan and Iraq but who currently acts under the name of Bel Hadj[15] as the Commander in Chief for the NTC as well as military dictator of Tripoli.

According to the evidence obtained, NATO and its member countries separately violated every single article and paragraph of General Assembly Resolution 2625 (XXV).

As for crimes of genocide, the tribes and civilians who were against NTC and foreign intervention were systematically deprived of right to life, right to property, right to association, right to free speech, by bombing, killing, arbitrary arresting, abducting, forceful disappearance.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.[16]"

Evidence:

"They carpet bombed the country … their deliberate tactic was to create a humanitarian disaster and to militarily clear the way, without any humanitarian regards, without any regards for human life," said Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, from the Canadian-based Centre for Research on Globalization, on Monday[17].

NATO regularly uses cluster bombs which are very hard to be removed from the sites. A Human rights investigation in Libya has found that it was the US and its Western allies who cluster bombed the troubled city of Misratah back in April.

The HRI said it has convincing evidence that the cluster bombing blamed on pro-Gaddafi forces was actually carried out by the US navy[18]. Civilians are the victims of the cluster bombs, mostly children and civilians who are not acknowledged with this kind of weapon.

We need not enumerate the DU amunition types used in Iraq 1991, Serbia/Kosovo 1999, Afghanistan 2001-04 and Iraq 2003. They have been dispensed by all air / ground and sea systems on innocent civilians. DU burns intensely and is very hard. It releases Uranium Oxide. The aerosol contains particles of 0.5-5 microns in size, once they are in the air or dust it is inhaled or ingested, including from contaminated soil. Once in the lungs one such particle is equivalent to having one X-Ray per hour, for life. Because it is impossible to remove, the victim is gradually irradiated. Still births, birth defects, leukemia, damaged central nervous systems and other cancers have been common in children born since 1999. Child leukemia has risen 600 % in areas of Iraq as reported by the Netherland Visie Foundation. Beyond just the health consequences, DU munitions are in fact, weapons of Silent Mass Destruction in so far as the consequences of their usage are vast, indiscriminate and violate all Human Rights Conventions.

Finally, if NATO’s mission in Libya has ended, then why are NATO aircraft strafing Tuareg villages in southern Libya?

Conclusion:

The war in former Yugoslavia was just a pilot project and a base to realize different types of scenarios in multi-ethnic countries with the aim to find out the best ways how to conquer certain countries with great natural resources and potentials which are of interest to global corporations. Please see the documentary Weight of chains. [19] This film takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic break-up of a once peaceful and prosperous European state – Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics.

The violation of international and humanitarian law, supporting and financing terrorism, dismantling of countries, genocide, and terrorism started in Serbia and as it seems, it will end up in Syria and Iran. And then, who is the next station on the line Eastwards? The civilian casualties have been countless. Libya is the most recent one and it has a special place due to the huge amount of evidence and bravery of its people.

It is obvious that the criminal activities of NATO are its modus operandi, are deliberate and callously carried out with the aim to allow material gain to private corporations by destroying and dismantling "inappropriate" countries and their facilities.

NATO and each country which participated in these atrocities and crimes against humanity have to be accused, indicted, found guilty and they have to pay reparations to each victim in the name of humankind.

Written by:

Nada Pejnovic and Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

(*) http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/06-11-2011/119534-indictment_nato-0/

[1] http://www.habermonitor.com/img/kaddafinin-hayalet-sehri-sirte—foto.jpg

2 http://www.worldbulletin.net/resim/250×190/2011/11/03/sirte-12.jpg

3 http://daccess-

ddsny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N11/268/39/PDF/N1126839.pdf?OpenElement

section 4 and 6

4 Testimony of General Wesley Clark, 2007-03-02 on Democracy Now!

5 http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/348/90/IMG/NR034890.pdf?OpenElement

6 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26327

7 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/may/22/nato-libya-data-journalism-operations-country

8 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26327

9 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/30/nato-bombs-libya-tv-transmitters

10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_%28United_States%29

11 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BA86y4-vbOs/TlJckhZrfAI/AAAAAAAACL0/UN3Ms8gwmwM/s1600/0006553t.jpg

12

13 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26327

14 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/apr2011/oppo-a02.shtml

15 http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/uw-faculty-member-ali-tarhouni-namedfinance-minister-by-libyan-opposition-1

16 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/world/guantanamo-files-libyan-detainee-now-us-ally-of-sorts.html?_r=1

17 http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/genocide.htm

18 http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/09/report-tripoli-nato-carpet-bombed-libya

19 http://voxrox.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/A-Cluster-Bomb-Victim.jpg

20 http://www.weightofchains.com/about.html

Annex 1: http://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-UW.pdf

USA manual on how to support insurgencies (which can also be called terrorist groups)

Annex 2: Detailed participation of NATO countries in Libya

USA: c. 8,500 personnel, 153 aircraft, 12 vessels, 228 cruise missiles, 2,000 sorties

UK: 1,300 personnel, 28 aircraft, 3 vessels, 18 cruise missiles, 1,300 sorties

France: 800 personnel, 29 aircraft, 6 vessels, 1,200 sorties

Italy: 12 aircraft, 4 vessels, 600 sorties

Canada: 560 personnel, 11 aircraft, 1 vessel, 358 sorties

Denmark: 120 personnel, 4 aircraft, 161 sorties

Norway: 140 personnel, 6 aircraft, 100 sorties

Sweden: 122 personnel, 8 aircraft, 78 sorties

Belgium: 120 personnel, 6 aircraft, 1 vessel, 60 sorties

Spain: 500 personnel, 7 aircraft, 1 vessel

Turkey: 7 aircraft, 6 vessels

Netherlands: 200 personnel, 7 aircraft, 1 vessel

Jordan: 30 personnel, 12 aircraft

UAE: 35 personnel, 12 aircraft

Qatar: 60 personnel (risible, there were thousands of mercenaries), 8 aircraft

Romania: 205 personnel, 1 vessel

Bulgaria: 160 personnel, 1 vessel

Greece: 1 vessel

Source:http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/05/22/Libya_Coalition_Sorties1200.jpg

Annex 3: Cost

c. 50,000 USD per aircraft per hour

c. 500,000 USD each cruise missile

Costs with board and lodging of personnel

Cost of ammunition and transportation

Other Logistics

Annex 4: Participation of Special Forces

The participation of Special Forces has been approached, and the countries involved do not discuss this issue. Those who have family members or friends who have disappeared connected to the armed forces certainly know what happened to them.

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/16-11-2011/119646-indictment_second-0/

http://globalciviliansforpeace.com/2011/11/17/will-the-icc-act-indictment-against-nato/

The Truth about Libya and Gaddafi that Corporate Media (& NGOs) Silenced

“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Dr Martin Luther King

Mu?ammar al-Gadd?f?
June 1942 – 20 October 2011

Mu’tasim-Billah al-Gaddafi
1977 – 20 October 2011

Although propaganda and lies regarding Libya and their brother leader, Muammar Gaddafi perpetuated incessantly and relentlessly via the global network of corporate media, the propaganda was also met with opposition utilizing the worldwide web. Hackers is Serbia went to war with anti-Gaddafi sites, closing them down as quickly as they appeared. Websites in Pakistan conveyed the facts of the false Green Square constructed in Doha. Music artists rapped about their African hero Gaddafi. Committed bloggers and authors detailed and continue to detail the truth. Independent news sources such as the Black Agenda Report with many others have been in the vanguard of a critical counter-attack to the corporate media’s campaign of lies, deception and propaganda.

Testimony of Libya – Lizzy Phelan

This is an imperative, absolutely brilliant must watch testimony of a journalist who was on the ground in Libya. This testimony documents yet another exposure of the truly appalling CIA front and Al-Jazeera media, the propaganda instrument of the Emir of Qatar, funder and ‘friend’ of the NATO ‘rebels’ in Libya.

The world has failed Libya. Their voices went unheard. This is a video of 1.7 million people (in a country of 6 million in total) who rallied in support of Gaddafi on July 1st, 2011. The anti-war movement was silent. Many NGOs actually aided the invasion. Unlike the illegal act of war on Iraq – a united citizenry “trend of moral cohesiveness” that would speak out against and rally against the war on Libya never materialized.

http://youtu.be/jWzNhk3zv4U

Countries which, on record, refused to accept the imperialistic recognition of the National Transition Council (NTC) included Angola, Bolivia, Cuba, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Ecuador, Guinea Equatoriale, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nicaragua, Sudáfrica, Swaziland, Tanzania, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Even in death, using language as their weapon, the corporate media framed Gaddafi as ‘filth’ initially claiming he was found hiding in a sewer (it is revealing to note that they also claimed to have found Saddam hiding in a hole) begging not to be executed. The fact is that Gaddafi was in Sirte – the most dangerous place in the world. Not in hiding. Not fleeing the country. Gaddafi had vowed to fight until the bitter end for his country and his people earlier professing “I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.” He did just that, until he was slaughtered, just like the tens of thousands of Libyans the Nato ‘rebels’ also slaughtered. Indeed, they even placed the bodies of Gaddafi and his son in a butcher’s freezer in Misrata. After his brutal assassination, the real terrorists such as U.S. Hillary Clinton and U.S. President Obama, responsible for the murder of millions, continued to refer to Gaddafi as a brutal dictator.

A Libyan girl’s message to Obama and Sarkozy (Running time: 2:35)

http://youtu.be/v5gNS75RpOc

Gaddafi has been described by Nelsen Mandela and many others as a true visionary. This in part to his revolutionary Green Book (hence the green Libyan flag) that all Libyans were encouraged to learn. This visionary quest for true democracy helped transition Libya into a country with the highest standard of living in Africa. This is incredible when one considers in 1951, prior to Gaddafi, Libya was officially the poorest country in the world. As part of his independent-mindedness, one of the first things Gaddafi did after taking power was to expel British & American military bases from Libya.

Life in Libya

Although Imperialist state ‘leaders’ and corporate media painted Gaddafi as a dictator/tyrant, in fact, in January of this year United Nations praised Libya on human rights, social protection and equality.

The facts on Libya (listed below) is also available on the following two videos. In the first video you witness Gaddafi driving through his city waving to his people who are clearly excited to see him. This footage is filmed in April 2011. It clearly shows a defiant Gaddafi ‘s as NATO bombs Tripoli in the colonial re-conquest of Libya backed by U.S. imperialism with the ruling classes of Italy, France and Britain, all former colonial masters in Libya.

One must ask themselves if this is something we would witness Obama doing in the United States? The answer of course is no. Only a leader who knows he is loved by his people would be willing to drive openly with no protection. In fact, the Pope waves to his ‘loyal following’ through a automobile with 4 inch bullet – proof glass. (“Because nothing shows your faith in God like 4 inch bullet-proof glass.”)

It is beyond tragic to see how absolutely beautiful the city was before being destroyed. (See the links under the videos for further resources)

(Telegraph TV) Colonel Gaddafi ‘parades through Tripoli in a jeep to delight of supporters (Running time: 1:47)

Which motorcade has the signs of a democracy, which the signs of a police state? (Running time: 1:53)

http://youtu.be/sXEgbWQnoac

What you don’t know about Gaddafi: (Running time: 7:24)

Libya Truth:  (Running time: (9:24)

Some facts most people do not know about Libya (under Gaddafi)

  • There is no electricity bill in… Libya; electricity is free … for all its citizens.
  • There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
  • Home considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent. (In Qaddafi’s Green Book it states: “The house is a basic need of both the individual and the family, therefore it should not be owned by others.”)
  • All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$ 50,000 ) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
  • Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Libya can boast one of the finest health care systems in the Arab and African World. All people have access to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines, completely free of all charges.
  • Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms – all for free.
  • If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US $2, 300/mth accommodation and car allowance.
  • In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.
  • The price of petrol in Libya is $0. 14 per liter.
  • Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
  • If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
  • A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
  • A mother who gave birth to a child receive US $5 ,000
  • 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
  • 25% of Libyans have a university degree. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 87%.
  • Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.

“They want to do to Libya what they did to Iraq and what they are itching to do to Iran. They want to take back the oil, which was nationalized by these country’s revolutions. They want to re-establish military bases that were shut down by the revolutions and to install client regimes that will subordinate the country’s wealth and labor to imperialist corporate interests. All else is lies and deception. Italy carried out the brutal occupation and colonization of Libya from 1911 to 1943, when it was ousted by the British, French and U.S. at the end of World War II. When these powers set up a Libyan state in 1951, they did so to allow Britain, France and the U.S. to each retain military bases and corporate interests there. Britain kept the bases and political dominance in the east, bordering its former colony Egypt, where Benghazi and the “rebels” are. France kept its military and its dominance in the southwest, near its colonies Algeria and Tunisia. And the U.S. military kept Wheelus Air Force base outside Tripoli to dominate the Mediterranean. All these imperialist parasites thrived even further once oil was discovered in Libya in 1955. But the gravy train ended with the 1969 revolution led by Muammar Gaddafi. U.S., British and French military bases were shut down, oil companies were eventually nationalized. And the oil wealth of the country was used to raise the standard of living of the Libyan people to the highest in Africa. Washington killed a million and a half Iraqi civilians, including half a million children, in 10 years of sanctions. It then killed another million in the second Iraq war, displaced 3 million more and destroyed the civilian infrastructure of the economy. The Pentagon massacres civilians with regularity in Afghanistan, using Predator drones and other gunships. It pays for every bullet, missile, tank and helicopter used by the Israeli settler state for the destruction of Palestinian homes, orchards, buildings and for use in “collective punishment” against civilians — not to mention the massacres carried out during the war on Gaza. Washington supports death squads in Colombia that kill trade union and peasant leaders, as well as the wholesale murder of villagers. Its record of sponsoring mass murder in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala is well known.” [Source: youtube]

Few are aware that Gaddafi was invited, as an esteemed guest, by Columbia University in 2006, to speak about and share knowledge of Libya’s vision of “direct democracy” (based on The Green Book), a lecture that was streamed live.

The Gold Diner

The gold bullion – held by the Libyan central bank is (March 2011) among the 25 largest reserves in the world, as reported by the Financial Times, citing the International Monetary Fund. (143.8-tonne | $6.4-billion) This provided Libya a critical lifeline after billions of Libya’s assets were seized by the United States and the 27 member states of the European Union.

Many believe the Nato-led imperialist invasion of Libya was/is about oil and a vast wealth of natural resources yet another critical element that few are aware of is the fact that Gaddafi had planned to introduce the gold dinar, a single African currency made from gold, a true sharing of the wealth. Peace founder Dr James Thring stated “It’s one of these things that you have to plan almost in secret, because as soon as you say you’re going to change over from the dollar to something else, you’re going to be targeted … There were two conferences on this, in 1986 and 2000, organized by Gaddafi. Everybody was interested, most countries in Africa were keen.” This would have eradicated the US Dollar and Euro as the African trade currencies. (Running time: 3:31)

The Devil According To NATO – Gaddafi At Home

(Via Sott.net) The daily life of the ‘brutal dictator’, surrounded by incredible luxury and brutalizing small children? (Running time: 1:52) In April 2011 NATO forces attacked Gaddafi’s compound murdering his youngest son and three of his grand children, all under the age of twelve. Within twenty-four hours US President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, an undoubtedly deliberate attempt to shift the spotlight away from the atrocious war crimes committed by NATO ‘rebels’ upon Libya.

Watch: Humanitarian War in Libya – There is no evidence!

MESSAGE FROM MUAMMAR GADDAFI, OCTOBER 6, 2011 (Running time: 1:37)

http://youtu.be/gs6Px6nPLIs

The Aftermath: The Assassination of Gaddafi

(Via John Murphy) While the nation’s attention has been focused on the Occupy Wall Street movement, new dangers for this country and for the world have been created by the Obama administration. The president has made it clear that America’s interventionist path has not changed direction one bit. If anything, he has done what once would have seemed impossible, accelerating that direction more than his predecessor ever hoped.

PODCAST: Listen (approx. 13 minutes in): http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/the-ugly-truth-podcast-oct-24-2011/. “We are honored to introduce for the first time writer/investigative journalist Martin Iqbal of www.empirestrikesblack.com who, along with Jonathon Azaziah weighs in on the assassination of Gaddafi and the growing evidence that it was not the “freedom fighters” who killed Gaddafi but actually British SAS troops.”

Demonstrations Being Organized

‘NATO and AFRICOM out of Africa!’ demonstrations are being organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the U.S. and in London, England on November 5, 2011.(In Philadelphia, we will rally at Broad Street and Susquehanna at 12pm and march from there to the conference site at 1310 North Broad Street. In London, we will demonstrate outside the U.S. embassy at 1pm.) Contact uhuruasi for more information. Obama and NTC are puppets of white imperialism! African resistance goes on until victory!

Some final words from Mu’ummar Qaddafi:

In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful…

For 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union.

I did all I could to help people Understand the concept of real democracy, where people’s committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more. They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed “democracy” and “freedom” never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup.

No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we’ve had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination – from thieves who would steal from us.

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “capitalism” ,but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer.

So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters.

I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.

Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light.

When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself…

In the West, some have called me “mad”, “crazy”, but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free.

— Mu’ummar Qaddafi.

[Source] — http://www.english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/13-04-2011/117563-message_from_qaddafi-0/

Resources | Further Reading – (Will continue to update)

Must Read Articles:

Libya, Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective: http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/03/libya-getting-it-right-a-revolutionary-pan-african-perspective/

Must Follow Blogs:

http://libya360.wordpress.com/

http://empirestrikesblack.com

http://globalciviliansforpeace.com/

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/

http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/

Must Watch Documentaries:

The Humanitarian War: http://www.laguerrehumanitaire.fr/english

Annie Machon: ex-MI-5 whistle-blower, activist and author joins Jack Etkin for an elucidating and revealing look at ‘Deep State’ and high-level national and international intelligence and security methodologies. Annie covers subjects such as false-flag/black operations, the MI-5’s botched attempt on Gaddafi’s life, the London Tube bombing (7/7), 9/11 and others. This penetrating and articulate interview is a must see. It verifies why we must question everything we are spoon-fed by mainstream media:

After the Coup: The Deadliest Place in the World for a Journalist: Mini-documentary on the Honduran journalists that have watched 15 colleagues assassinated in 19 months under the Lobo regime, a government Barack Obama praises for its “strong commitment to democracy”:

The War On Democracy

The story of the manipulation of Latin America by the United States over the past 50 years, including the real story behind the attempted overthrow of Hugo Chávez in 2002 by award winning journalist John Pilger (with English subtitles).

Versión en español

Social Media:

Fight media propaganda and help Libya against NATO’s aggressions: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-the-aggression-in-Libya/186296531416909

http://www.facebook.com/pages/STOP-THE-WAR-IN-LIBYA-WE-DEMAND-IT/213018878711849?ref=ts

Must Read Books:

Gadaffi’s “Green Book”: http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/the-green-book-by-muammar-al-gaddafi/

ADDITIONAL VIDEOS:

DEMOCRACY in Libya! (Running Time 11:58)

http://youtu.be/zFQD3shYPdU

Libya Airstrikes- Russian Satellite Detect NO EVIDENCE of Bombings |  No bombing of civilians by Libyan Air Force.  NATO War based on a lie. (Running time: 6:16)

Gaddafi – A Libyan Hero (Running time: 3:50)

NGOs Who Led the Way for the NATO/Imperialist Invasion of Libya, the Slaughter of Libyan Civilians and the Brutal Assassination of Mu’ummar Qaddafi

Source: Martin Iqbal: http://empirestrikesblack.com

·The Libyan League for Human Rights is a Switzerland based NED-affiliated Zionist-globalist mainstay

· The LLHR provided the false testimony of massacres of civilians in Benghazi/Tripoli to the UN Human Rights Council in February

· The NTC Media, Education, and the Oil & Finance Ministers, are ALL members of the LLHR, and the fraudulent reports originated from the NTC

· 1994 CSIS conference including NED & NFSL figures: “Any military attack must eliminate Qaddafi to be at all successful”

· 22 Feb, 2011: Zionist mainstay ‘UN Watch’ writes ‘Urgent Appeal to Stop Atrocities in Libya’, signed by 70 NGOs http://bit.ly/pqHY2C

· When Dr. Sliman Bouchuiguir of the LLHR was asked how he organised the NGOs so fast, he laughed and said “They are all affiliated”

Watch: Humanitarian War in Libya – There is no evidence!

http://youtu.be/j4evwAMIh4Y

http://youtu.be/MmahzMfw6T4

Urgent Appeal to Stop Atrocities in LibyaSent by 70 NGOs to the US, EU, and UN, 21 February 2011

We, the undersigned non-governmental, human rights, and humanitarian organizations, urge you to mobilize the United Nations and the international community and take immediate action to halt the mass atrocities now being perpetrated by the Libyan government against its own people. The inexcusable silence cannot continue.

As you know, in the past several days, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi’s forces are estimated to have deliberately killed hundreds of peaceful protesters and innocent bystanders across the country. In the city of Benghazi alone, one doctor reported seeing at least 200 dead bodies. Witnesses report that a mixture of special commandos, foreign mercenaries and regime loyalists have attacked demonstrators with knives, assault rifles and heavy-caliber weapons.

Snipers are shooting peaceful protesters. Artillery and helicopter gunships have been used against crowds of demonstrators. Thugs armed with hammers and swords attacked families in their homes. Hospital officials report numerous victims shot in the head and chest, and one struck on the head by an anti-aircraft missile. Tanks are reported to be on the streets and crushing innocent bystanders. Witnesses report that mercenaries are shooting indiscriminately from helicopters and from the top of roofs. Women and children were seen jumping off Giuliana Bridge in Benghazi to escape. Many of them were killed by the impact of hitting the water, while others were drowned. The Libyan regime is seeking to hide all of these crimes by shutting off contact with the outside world. Foreign journalists have been refused entry. Internet and phone lines have been cut or disrupted.

There is no question here about intent. The government media has published open threats, promising that demonstrators would meet a “violent and thunderous response.”

Accordingly, the government of Libya is committing gross and systematic violations of the right to life as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Citizens seeking to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are being massacred by the government.

Moreover, the government of Libya is committing crimes against humanity, as defined by the Explanatory Memorandum to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Libyan government’s mass killing of innocent civilians amount to particularly odious offences which constitute a serious attack on human dignity. As confirmed by numerous oral and video testimonies gathered by human rights organizations and news agencies, the Libyan government’s assault on its civilian population are not isolated or sporadic events. Rather, these actions constitute a widespread and systematic policy and practice of atrocities, intentionally committed, including murder, political persecution and other inhumane acts which reach the threshold of crimes against humanity.

Responsibility to Protect

Under the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, you have a clear and unambiguous responsibility to protect the people of Libya. The international community, through the United Nations, has the responsibility to use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means, in accordance with Chapters VI and VIII of the Charter, to help to protect the Libyan population. Because the Libyan national authorities are manifestly failing to protect their population from crimes against humanity, should peaceful means be inadequate, member states are obliged to take collective action, in a timely and decisive manner, through the Security Council, in accordance with the UN Charter, including Chapter VII.

In addition, we urge you to convene an emergency Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council, whose members have a duty, under UNGA Resolution 60/251, to address situations of gross and systematic violations of violations of human rights. The session should:

Call for the General Assembly to suspend Libya’s Council membership, pursuant to Article 8 of Resolution 60/251, which applies to member states that commit gross and systematic violations of human rights.

  • Strongly condemn, and demand an immediate end to, Libya’s massacre of its own citizens.
  • Dispatch immediately an international mission of independent experts to collect relevant facts and document violations of international human rights law and crimes against humanity, in order to end the impunity of the Libyan government. The mission should include an independent medical investigation into the deaths, and an investigation of the unlawful interference by the Libyan government with the access to and treatment of wounded.
  • Call on the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights and the Council’s relevant Special Procedures to closely monitor the situation and take action as needed.
  • Call on the Council to remain seized of the matter and address the Libyan situation at its upcoming 16th regular session in March.

Member states and high officials of the United Nations have a responsibility to protect the people of Libya from what are preventable crimes. We urge you to use all available measures and levers to end atrocities throughout the country.

We urge you to send a clear message that, collectively, the international community, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council will not be bystanders to these mass atrocities. The credibility of the United Nations — and many innocent lives — are at stake.

Sincerely,

1. Hillel C. Neuer, United Nations Watch, Switzerland
2. Dr. Sliman Bouchuiguir, Libyan League for Human Rights, Switzerland
3. Mary Kay Stratis, Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc., USA
4. Carl Gershman, President, The National Endowment for Democracy, USA
5. Yang Jianli, Initiatives for China, USA – Former prisoner of conscience and survivor of Tiananmen Square massacre
6. Yang Kuanxing, YIbao – Chinese writer, original signatory to Charter 08, the manifesto calling for political reform in China
7. Matteo Mecacci, MP, Nonviolent Radical Party, Italy
8. Frank Donaghue, Physicians for Human Rights, USA
9. Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Stop Child Executions, Canada
10. Bhawani Shanker Kusum, Gram Bharati Samiti, India
11. G. Jasper Cummeh, III, Actions for Genuine Democratic Alternatives, Liberia
12. Michel Monod, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Switzerland
13. Esohe Aghatise, Associazione Iroko Onlus, Italy
14. Harris O. Schoenberg, UN Reform Advocates, USA
15. Myrna Lachenal, World Federation for Mental Health, Switzerland
16. Nguyên Lê Nhân Quyên, Vietnamese League for Human Rights, Switzerland
17. Sylvia G. Iriondo, Mothers and Women against Repression (M.A.R. Por Cuba), USA
18. David Littman, World Union for Progressive Judaism, Switzerland
19. Barrister Festus Okoye, Human Rights Monitor, Nigeria
20. Theodor Rathgeber, Forum Human Rights, Germany
21. Derik Uya Alfred, Kwoto Cultural Center, Juba – Southern Sudan
22. Carlos E Tinoco, Consorcio Desarrollo y Justicia, A.C., Venezuela
23. Abdurashid Abdulle Abikar, Center for Youth and Democracy, Somalia
24. Dr. Vanee Meisinger, Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women’s Association, Thailand
25. Simone Abel, René Cassin, United Kingdom
26. Dr. Francois Ullmann, Ingenieurs du Monde, Switzerland
27. Sr Catherine Waters, Catholic International Education Office, USA
28. Gibreil Hamid, Darfur Peace and Development Centre, Switzerland
29. Nino Sergi, INTERSOS – Humanitarian Aid Organization, Italy
30. Daniel Feng, Foundation for China in the 21st Century
31. Ann Buwalda, Executive Director, Jubilee Campaign, USA
32. Leo Igwe, Nigerian Humanist Movement, Nigeria
33. Chandika Gautam, Nepal International Consumers Union, Nepal
34. Zohra Yusuf, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan
35. Sekou Doumbia, Femmes & Droits Humains, Mali
36. Cyrille Rolande Bechon, Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme, Cameroon
37. Zainab Al-Suwaij, American Islamic Congress, USA
38. Valnora Edwin, Campaign for Good Governance, Sierra Leone
39. Patrick Mpedzisi, African Democracy Forum, South Africa
40. Phil ya Nangoloh, NamRights, Namibia
41. Jaime Vintimilla, Centro Sobre Derecho y Sociedad (CIDES), Ecuador
42. Tilder Kumichii Ndichia, Gender Empowerment and Development, Cameroon
43. Amina Bouayach, Moroccan Organisation for Human Rights, Morocco
44. Abdullahi Mohamoud Nur, CEPID-Horn Africa, Somalia
45. Delly Mawazo Sesete, Resarch Center on Environment, Democracy & Human Rights, DR Congo
46. Joseph Rahall, Green Scenery, Sierra Leone
47. Arnold Djuma, Solidarité pour la Promotion Sociale et la Paix, Rwanda
48. Panayote Dimitras, Greek Helsinki Monitor, Greece
49. Carlos E. Ponce, Latina American and Caribbean Network for Democracy, Venezuela
50. Fr. Paul Lansu, Pax Christi International, Belgium
51. Tharsika Pakeerathan, Swiss Council of Eelam Tamils, Switzerland
52. Ibrahima Niang, Commission des Droits Humains du Mouvement Citoyen, Senegal
53. Virginia Swain, Center for Global Community and World Law, USA
54. Dr Yael Danieli, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, USA
55. Savita Gokhale, Loksadhana, India
56. Hasan Dheeree, Biland Awdal Organization, Somalia
57. Pacifique Nininahazwe, Forum pour le Renforcement de la Société Civile, Burundi
58. Derik Uya Alfred, Kwoto Cultural Center, Southern Sudan
59. Michel Golubnichy, International Association of Peace Foundations, Russia
60. Edward Ladu Terso, Multi Media Training Center, Sudan
61. Hafiz Mohammed, Justice Africa Sudan, Sudan
62. Sammy Eppel, B’nai B’rith Human Rights Commission, Venezuela
63. Jack Jeffery, International Humanist and Ethical Union, United Kingdom
64. Duy Hoang, Viet Tan, Vietnam
65. Promotion de la Democratie et Protection des Droits Humains, DR Congo
66. Radwan A. Masmoudi, Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy, USA
67. María José Zamora Solórzano, Movimiento por Nicaragua, Nicaragua
68. John Suarez, Cuban Democratic Directorate, USA
69. Mohamed Abdul Malek, Libya Watch, United Kingdom
70. Journalists Union of Russia, Russia

71. Sindi Medar-Gould, BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, Nigeria
72. Derik Uya Alfred, Kwoto Cultural Centre, Sudan
73. Sr. Anne Shaym, Presentation Sisters, Australia
74. Joseph Rahad, Green Scenery, Sierra Leone
75. Fahma Yusuf Essa, Women in Journalism Association, Somalia
76. Hayder Ibrahim Ali, Sudanese Studies Center, Sudan
77. Marcel Claude Kabongo, Good Governance and Human Rights NGO, DR Congo
78. Frank Weston, International Multiracial Shared Cultural Organization (IMSCO), USA
79. Fatima Alaoui, Maghrebin Forum for environment and development, Morocco
80. Ted Brooks, Committee for Peace and Development Advocacy, Liberia
81. Felly Fwamba, Cerveau Chrétien, DR Congo
82. Jane Rutledge, CIVICUS: World Alliance of Citizen Participation, South Africa
83. Ali AlAhmed, The Institute for Gulf Affairs, USA
84. Daniel Ozoukou, Martin Luther King Center for Peace and Social Justice, Cote d’Ivoire
85. Dan T. Saryee, Liberia Democratic Institute (LDI), Liberia

Individuals
Dr. Frene Ginwala, former Speaker of the South African National Assembly
Philosopher Francis Fukuyama
Mohamed Eljahmi, Libyan human rights activist
Glenn P. Johnson, Jr., Treasurer, Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc., father of Beth Ann Johnson, victim of Lockerbie bombing

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330815&ct=9135143

LIBYA: Stop the War ‘leaders’ are trying to stifle debate by illegally expelling those who criticise them

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Red Youth

On 23 September, the CPGB-ML received an email from the Stop the War Coalition informing us of a decision by the “officers group” to “reject the affiliation” of our party. We were told that this was on the basis that the CPGB-ML had been “publicly attacking Stop the War Coalition” in its publications.

We responded as follows:

No basis for expulsion

First: we have been affiliated for many years to the coalition. Therefore it is not now possible to reject our affiliation. If it can be proved that we have failed to comply with StW’s constitution in some way, then we would have to be expelled.

Second: assuming for a moment that such a case can be made, what authority does the officers group have to make such a decision? We would be interested to see the rule that allows the officers to act without any kind of procedure and without any mandate from the membership via a national conference.

Third: it is perfectly clear that there is no such case to answer. You accuse us of “attacking Stop the War”. Comrades, the organisation belongs not to the officers but to the members. What we have done is to criticise the leadership of the coalition – not because we have failed to uphold the aims and objectives of the coalition but because it is our belief that they have done so.

We would be interested to see any proof that our organisation has stopped opposing imperialist war – including the concomitant racist backlash and erosion of civil liberties. According to StW’s founding statement, these are the only membership criteria and our party fulfils them amply.

No cooperation with war crimes

In 2009, StW national conference passed a resolution, proposed by our organisation, calling on the coalition “to do all in its power to promote a movement of industrial, political and military non-cooperation with all of imperialism’s aggressive war preparations and activities among British working people”.

In 2010, national conference passed a further motion on non-cooperation with war crimes by an overwhelming majority (our recollection is that just one person present voted against). It specifically drew attention to the propaganda aspect of imperialist war and called on the coalition to “draw in as many members and supporters as possible to an ongoing campaign to hold the media to account for their pivotal role in apologising for, covering up and normalising British, US and Israeli war crimes”.

Not only has the Stop the War leadership failed to implement these resolutions, it has actually been helping the propaganda effort in support of the criminal imperialist war against Libya.

StW leaders and the war against Libya

Stop the War leaders have accepted Nato propaganda that characterised its agents in Benghazi as a ‘popular’ movement and a part of the anti-imperialist ‘Arab spring’. They have even mobilised demonstrations in support of these agents, while characterising the popular Libyan government as a ‘brutal dictatorship’.

And today, while those who continue to resist Nato’s assault are being carpet bombed in cities all over Libya, Stop the War leaders continue to prop up the imperialist propaganda effort by:

– accepting and promoting the imperialist lie that Gaddafi’s government has already fallen and that the stooges of the ‘NTC’ have formed a new government;

– accepting and promoting the imperialist lie that the ‘fall’ of the Gaddafi government is a cause for popular celebration in Libya;

– accepting and promoting the imperialist lie that the ‘rebels’ are expressing the popular will of the people and thereby bringing ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’ and ‘justice’ to Libya;

– keeping the imperialist media’s silence about the resistance that is being mounted by the legitimate government of Libya, its armed forces and the armed citizens;

– keeping the imperialist media’s silence about the real character of the ‘rebels’, despite the wealth of evidence now available;

– keeping the imperialist media’s silence about the terrible crimes that have been and are being committed by Nato’s ‘rebels’ against the people of Libya (massacring of black people; massacring of pro-government supporters, raping of women, looting and burning of homes);

– keeping the imperialist media’s silence about the terrible crimes committed by Nato’s bombers and special forces, including the targeting of civilians, water and electricity supplies, schools, mosques, hospitals and libraries, the imposition of sanctions to prevent the import of medical supplies and food, the theft of Libya’s wealth and resources, the use of chemical and nuclear weapons, including depleted uranium-tipped missiles, and the carpet bombing of civilian populations that has resulted in a death toll of well over 50,000 so far;

– keeping the imperialist media’s silence about the gains made by ordinary Libyans since the Green revolution in 1969, which have brought them from being the poorest people in the world to the richest in Africa, with a standard of life for ordinary Libyans comparable to that in parts of western Europe;

– keeping the imperialist media’s silence about the critical support given by Libya to anti-imperialist movements all over the world, and especially its support to the African struggle to break free from the chains of the IMF and the World Bank and the diktat of imperialist corporations and governments.

In so doing, Stop the War’s leaders have proved themselves unfit for their positions. We call on them either to correct their line immediately, or to resign and allow a national conference to elect new, more suitable leaders who are prepared to carry out StW policy thoroughly and completely.

Hold the leaders to account

We call on the Stop the War Coalition’s members to hold their leaders to account. We need an organisation that is truly willing and able to work amongst the British people to promote a movement of industrial, political and military non-cooperation with all of imperialism’s aggressive war preparations and activities.

Only then will we be able to claim that we are not complicit in the war crimes of the British government, armed forces, media and corporations. And only then will we have the remotest chance of actually stopping the war.

About Red Youth

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http://redyouthuk.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/stop-the-war-leaders-are-trying-to-stifle-debate-by-illegally-expelling-those-who-criticise-them/

TIPNIS: A Libyan test method? | TIPNIS: ¿Un ensayo del método libio?

 This article was originally written in Spanish. The original version follows below our translation – admin

“I was Quechua born. I learned Spanish at 9 years old. I lived in a peasant community, 40 km afar of the nearest road. Without electric power, without engines, schools or medical centers. To reach the “punta carretera” (the nearest village where I attended basic school), we needed to travel a day and a half on foot, after the mules. We slept over mud, under the trees, covering ourselves with plastic sheets so full of holes. My father, when he was a child, had to travel afoot 7 days, behind the mules, to reach the school: he never finished his education.”

By Ollantay Itzamná
10/10/11

In the complex Bolivian order of things, so full of revolutionary histories, the TIPNIS case is and will be a valuable lesson for people with revolutionary creed, but too close to Sisyphus’ myth for their own good. When a 21st century world in despair was looking in hope the Bolivian process, as a referent for possible structural transformations, we stumbled upon the noisy TIPNIS case. As a result, Bolivian idea-lacking oligarchy breathed again, and conscience and political beliefs from promoting Bolivians is under a hard test.

The TIPNIS case is not a environmental or indigenous joke: it’s an rehearsal for validating the Libyan method’s effectiveness. The Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure (TIPNIS) is 12.363 square kilometers (4,773.381 square miles), and belongs to the Beni and Cochabamba departments, 300 kilometers from Brazil’s frontier. This territory, still virgin land, has no roads, electric power or facilities of any kind: it is the home for poor indigenous tribes, just two steps ahead of primitive times: moxeño, yuracaré and chimán. That, and some “colonization” communities. In order to include isolated parts of territory, President Evo Morales is working in ambitious road-construction projects. One of those projects, connecting the plateau and valleys with Amazonian Bolivia, goes straight thru TIPNIS. In the present day, you need three days of travel (900 km) in order to go from Beni to Cochabamba. With the new road, traveling through TIPNIS, distance would be 300 km shorter. This road project is shattering not just Morales’ government, but also the hopeful change process in Bolivia. It can look funny: a poor country, without enough roads, is fighting angrily against a road project in the middle of TIPNIS. What’s the matter with the bold Bolivia, the rainbow warriors’ one?

The meaning of living without roads

I was Quechua born. I learned Spanish at 9 years old. I lived in a peasant community, 40 km afar of the nearest road. Without electric power, without engines, schools or medical centers. To reach the “punta carretera” (the nearest village where I attended basic school), we needed to travel a day and a half on foot, after the mules. We slept over mud, under the trees, covering ourselves with plastic sheets so full of holes. My father, when he was a child, had to travel afoot 7 days, behind the mules, to reach the school: he never finished his education. At this moment of time, road is nearer, it conquered tropical jungle, and it’s 3 hours away from my parents’ home. Last time I visited my old parents, I sadly saw from the van I was riding on a lazy bear, no very scared by engine sound. You can’t imagine all the contradictions suggested by that scene. To be honest, without that blessed road, I would never learned to write, and I would never know the miseries and the greatness of the modern world. My mother, isolated, would surely die due to her heart troubles. But despite that, the road is still troubling me. Especially now that I am an urban indigenous, and my Earth identity. But, do I have the right to negate my nephews and other people the chance of experience modern times? For us, indigenous, the road is a matter of life and death. The rest is just silly stories.

Are we prepared to avoid modern times?

When I hear and read the arguments against the TIPNIS road, I wonder if environmental and indigenous advocates know firsthand how is life when you’re isolated and poor. ¿Do they know what is living without electrical power, schools, hospitals, computer or freezers? I do not defend Earth or indigenous people. I am Earth and indigenous at the same time, and I long for life. I don’t want the isolation that kills silence for no one. But I am not a defender of the modern times killing our surroundings, our people or committing suicide. My ancestors lived for thousands of years interacting with Mother Earth. Without agriculture, without settings, without cattle, without roads, without Industrial Revolution, mankind would not exist. At least, not with the “comfort” we already have. Good life, as a lifestyle, for indigenous people, isn’t opposed to modern times! Why people excluded from Movimiento Al Socialismo (Movement For Socialism, MAS), ex-Morales’ government agents like Raúl Prada, Alejandro Almaraz, Lino Vilca, Román Loayza and others, now that don’t receive a pay from Evo’s “tyrant” government, want to behead the President? Rest of road and petroleum exploitations, when they were on the rule: weren’t so harmful for Mother Earth and financed by Brazilian empire, as they claim now? Why modern and urban indigenous, used to fly by plane, want to keep their kin isolated and poor? If we negate roads to TIPNIS people, we must do it too for the rest of indigenous and mixed races, forbidding motorways and airports. Do they will agree on that? Once you’re in top of the ladder of modern times, is easy to burn bridges behind us, while rest of people wants also their share of “modernity”, even this is bad for Mother Earth.

It was no then, it is yes now?

Why landowners that treated indigenous people as beasts of burden and little more than animals, now with TIPNIS behave as the great defenders of native people and Mother Earth? Last thing wasn’t a pagan heresy for them? Take them the tractors, airports, planes, more harmful for Mother Earth than the TIPNIS road, and let’s see if they still want to defend environment. Free my native sisters from being maids and servants, and check later if the “ladies” still defend the “exotic natives in their natural state”.

Let’s find who’s paying the NGO behind the repressed VII Indigenous March to La Paz city, supporting TIPNIS. You’ll be surprised that Ford or Rockefeller foundations are behind. Why? Make a guess on how many air miles did people claiming now about environment and indigenous. Maybe them are spending more time in airports and luxury hotels than at TIPNIS, who will finance them? Why private mass media, who loathed and despised natives, now raise their ratings speaking about the noble TIPNIS natives and their valiant march? Maybe the brutal and long neo-liberal night wasn’t cruel with natives and Mother Earth?

Those media, and the journalists working for them, now indigenous partidaries, called us natives in the past “green beak animals (for chewing coca leaves) blocking the economy and the advancing of the country”. Is this due to ecological faith, or economical need? Do you remember Morales, fighting the global monetary system, denouncing projects avid to monetize water, air and international commerce on Earth? The global financial system, now wounded, does not forgive people trying to get fresh financing at its back. Global financial system needs to devour all the common goods (natural resources) from Bolivia for breathing, but Morales and the process he’s leading are an obstacle!

TIPNIS, a rehearsal of Libyan method?

Likewise, to Gadafi, Morales, Chávez, Correa and other people not prone to kneel, will get a taste of the Libyan method: break revolution from the inside, with the people who’s inside. In Bolivian case, what’s better than the own natives that “defend” TIPNIS and “Mother Earth”. Unfinished histories of Bolivian revolutions are full of treacherous and quick “comrades”, maybe they died without knowing they were undermining the revolution they were fighting for. In TIPNIS case, the defense of native people and Mother Earth is not at the stake. The game is about the validation of the Libyan method on its preparing phase, and the burial of the long-awaited social change in Bolivia, the one our ancestors and peers gave their lives for. Both us and them know these changes aren’t at the next corner. We know change is something that will benefit our future generations. But central government errors, and our own hunger about “eating” the future now, are making contradictions in the process much deeper, and who knows if they’ll reach a destructive limit. I honestly think that TIPNIS road projects needs to be informed, and listen to people’s vote.

Repression against indigenous march in September must be investigated, and the liable persons must be sanctioned. In the same manner, media who published wrong information about casualties and missing persons must get the same treatment. Government, for the sake of truth, must investigate and apply the law over the institutions, characters and financial firms behind the TIPNIS case. It is important for us, as a nation, never be slaves of dire urges, or mass media climate. Bolivia is now a process. Economical and material changes will delay, but they will arrive someday. What has been on the work for seven centuries can’t be upturned in a decade.

http://www.aporrea.org/tiburon/a131500.html

TIPNIS: ¿Un ensayo del método libio?

Por: Ollantay Itzamná
Fecha de publicación: 10/10/11

En el prolijo sendero boliviano, de innumerables historias revolucionarias inclusas, el caso TIPNIS es y será un hito aleccionador para un pueblo de vocación revolucionaria pero preso del presagio del mito de Sísifo. Nada menos cuando el desesperado mundo del siglo XXI miraba con esperanzas al actual proceso boliviano como el referente de transformaciones estructurales posibles, apareció en el camino el bullicioso caso TIPNIS que no sólo oxigenó a la convaleciente (en ideas) oligarquía boliviana, sino que tantea el grado y la profundidad de la conciencia y convicción política de las y los bolivianos promotores y baluartes del proceso.

El caso TIPNIS no es ninguna inocentada ambientalista o indigenista, es un ensayo para la revalidación de la eficacia del método libio. El Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure (TIPNIS), mide 12 363 km² (1.236 296 hectáreas) Pertenece a los departamentos de Beni y Cochabamba. A 300 kilómetros de la frontera con Brasil. En este territorio, básicamente virgen, carente de vías de comunicación, electricidad y otras facilidades, conviven en condiciones de empobrecimiento y precariedad primitiva, y no en bucólica armonía con la naturaleza, los pueblos indígenas: moxeño, yuracaré y chimán. Además, están varias comunidades de “colonizadores”. Con el objetivo de articular las zonas aisladas del territorio nacional, el gobierno de Evo Morales, emprende ambiciosos proyectos camineros. Uno de éstos, para articular a las poblaciones del altiplano y valles con la Amazonía de Bolivia, pasa por TIPNIS. Actualmente, para ir de Beni a Cochabamba, se requiere 3 días de viaje (900 km). Con la nueva carretera, que pasaría por TIPNIS, la distancia se acortaría a 300 km.Este proyecto caminero es lo que está sacudiendo, no al gobierno de Morales, sino al soñado y esperanzado proceso de cambio boliviano. Aunque parezca jocoso: un país empobrecido y sin carreteras suficientes, ahora, se encuentra en pie de lucha contra un proyecto caminero que cruza por TIPNIS. ¿Qué pasa con esa Bolivia aguerrida y promisoria de los guerreros del arco iris?

Lo que significa vivir en el aislamiento caminero

Yo, soy indígena quechua. Aprendí el español a los 9 años. Viví en una comunidad campesina, a 40 km. de la punta carretera. Sin electricidad, sin motores, sin centros educativos, ni postas médicas. Para llegar a la punta carretera (poblado municipal más próximo donde hice la primaria), necesitábamos viajar un día y medio a pie, y detrás de las mulas. Dormíamos sobre el fango, bajo los árboles, tapados con plásticos agujereados. Mi padre, cuando fue niño, tuvo que viajar a pie 7 días, detrás de las mulas, para llegar a su escuela que jamás concluyó. Actualmente, la carretera avanzó, rompiendo la selva semitropical, y se encuentra a 3 horas de la casa de mis padres. La última vez que fui a visitar a mis ancianos padres en la comunidad, con pesar vi, desde el camión en que me transportaba, en medio de la selva frondosa, surcada por la carretera, a un oso perezoso que huía con dificultad del ruido del motor por el barranco dejado por el tractor. No imaginan las contradicciones que me generó aquel cuadro.Para serles honesto, quien suscribe, sin aquella bendita carretera jamás hubiera aprendido a escribir, mucho menos conocido las grandezas y las miserias de la modernidad, patrimonio de la humanidad. Mi madre aislada ya hubiera fallecido por sus complicaciones cardíacas. Pero no crean. Aquella carretera me sigue generando contradicciones. Especialmente ahora que soy indígena urbano, y por mi identidad Tierra. Pero, ¿con qué derecho podría yo privarles a mis sobrinos u otros de la posibilidad de conocer la modernidad? Para nosotros indígenas, la carretera es cuestión de vida o muerte. El resto es romance.

¿Estamos dispuestos a renunciar a la modernidad?

Cuando escucho y leo los argumentos en contra del tramo carretero que cruza TIPNIS, me pregunto si las y los ambientalistas e indigenistas conocen en carne propia lo que es vivir aislado y en permanente precariedad. ¿Sabrán lo que es vivir sin energía eléctrica, sin escuela, sin hospitales, sin computadora, sin refrigeradora? Yo no defiendo a la Tierra, ni a los indígenas. Yo soy tierra e indígena al mismo tiempo, pero con vocación a la vida. Yo no deseo para nadie el aislamiento que mata en el silencio. Pero, tampoco promuevo el modernismo ecocida, etnocida y suicida. Mis ancestros han convivido por miles de años incursionando e interactuando con la Madre Tierra. Sin agricultura, sin asentamientos, sin ganados, sin carreteras, sin la revolución industrial no existiría la humanidad. No por lo menos con las “comodidades” actuales. ¡El Buen Vivir, como un estilo de vida, para nosotros/as indígenas, no es excluyente con los beneficios de la modernidad!¿Por qué será que justamente los raleados (expulsados) del Movimientos al Socialismo (MAS) y ex funcionarios del gobierno de Morales, como Raúl Prada, Alejandro Almaraz, Lino Vilca, Román Loayza y otros, ahora que ya no reciben sueldo del gobierno “tirano” de Evo, se empecinan en descabezar a Morales? Las otras carreteras y proyectos petroleros, mientras ellos eran funcionarios, ¿no eran acaso de igual devastador de la Madre Tierra y financiados por el “subimperio” brasilero que ahora denuncian? ¿Por qué será que indígenas modernos/urbanos, que no se niegan a los viajes en avión, ahora, quieren mantener en el aislamiento y empobrecimiento a otros indígenas? Si les negamos la carretera a los y las indígenas del TIPNIS, retiremos también las carreteras y los aeropuertos a todos los indígenas y mestizos ambientalistas, ¿será que estarían de acuerdo? Una vez arriba y accedido a la modernidad, es fácil patear la escalera por la que accedimos, mientras hay pueblo enteros que también aspiran a la “modernidad perversa” con la salud de la Madre Tierra.

¿Por qué será que antes no, ahora, sí?

¿Por qué será los patrones que siempre nos mantuvieron a las y los indígenas como sus bestias de carga, y nos tratan como a la última especie de la fauna silvestre, ahora, con en el caso TIPNIS se constituyen en abanderados defensores de pueblos indígenas y de la Madre Tierra? ¿Acaso, para ellos, esto último no era una herejía pagana? Quitémosle los tractores, aeropuertos y aviones que dañan mucho más que la carretera por TIPNIS a la Madre Tierra, haber si la “convicción” ambientalista persiste en ellos. Liberemos a mis hermanas indígenas de la servidumbre doméstica, haber si las señoras “de blanco” salen a defender a “exóticos indígenas en estado natural”.

Averigüemos quiénes financian a las ONGs que están detrás de la reprimida VIII marcha indígena hacia la ciudad de La Paz en defensa del TIPNIS. Para sorpresa de Ud. fundaciones de petroleras como Ford, Rockefeller y otros están detrás. ¿Por qué será? Averigüe Ud. las millas aéreas recorridas por las y los ambientalistas que ahora escriben y hacen huelgas en defensa del estado natural de indígenas. Quizás ellos y ellas viven más en los aeropuertos y hoteles full aire acondicionado que en el TIPNIS postergado, ¿quién los financiará? ¿Por qué será los medios de información empresarial, que antes sentía asco y vergüenza por las y los indígenas, ahora, hacen rating con nobles y primitivos indígenas del TIPNIS en marcha sacrificada? ¿Acaso la brutal y larga noche neoliberal no fue cruel y mortal con indígenas y la Madre Tierra?

Pero, estos medios de información, y muchos de sus actuales columnistas, ahora indigenistas y ambientalista, nos trataban a los indígenas en protestas “de animales de pico verde (por masticar la hoja de coca) sentados a los bordes de los caminos que bloquean la modernidad y la economía del país”. ¿Será esto una conversión ecológica, o una conveniencia económica?¿Recuerda Ud. a Morales, insubordinado al sistema financiero mundial, denunciando los proyectos de mercantilización del agua, aire y el comercio internacional de la tierra? Este sistema financiero mundial, que ahora desfallece, no perdona a insubordinados en su intento de abastecerse de activos financieros frescos. ¡El sistema financiero mundial necesita devorar todos los bienes comunes (recursos naturales) de Bolivia para oxigenarse, pero Morales y el proceso que encabeza son un obstáculo!

TIPNIS, ¿un ensayo del método libio?

En este sentido, a Gadafi, Morales, Chávez, Correa y a muchos otros insumisos, se les aplicará el método libio: quebrar la revolución desde adentro y con los de adentro. En el caso boliviano, qué mejor con los mismos indígenas “defendiendo” TIPNIS y a la “Madre Tierra”. Las historias inconclusas de las revoluciones bolivianas están empedradas de traiciones de revolucionarios maximalistas e inmediatistas que quizás murieron sin darse cuenta que minaban la revolución por la que lucharon.En el caso TIPNIS, no está en juego la defensa de los pueblos indígenas y la Madre Tierra. Lo que está en juego es la revalidación del método libio en su fase preparatoria y el entierro del añorado proceso de cambio boliviano por el que nuestros ancestros y coetáneos ofrendaron sus vidas. Ellos y nosotros sabíamos y sabemos que los cambios no estaban a la vuelta de la esquina. Sabemos que el cambio es un proceso que beneficiará, en buena medida, a las futuras generaciones. Pero, las equivocaciones del gobierno central, y nuestro espíritu inmediatista de querer comernos el futuro promisorio ya, están ahondando las contradicciones creativas del proceso hasta el límite de convertirlas en destructivas.Considero que para proseguir con el proyecto carretero por TIPNIS se debe informar y someterlo a la voluntad popular.

Se debe investigar y sancionar a los responsables de la represión contra la marcha indígena el 25 de septiembre pasado. De la misma manera, se debe investigar y sancionar a los medios que desinformaron a la población sobre muertos y desaparecidos en aquella refriega. El gobierno, por la salud del proceso, debe investigar y sancionar a las organizaciones, personajes y financieras que están detrás de la movida TIPNIS. Es importante que como pueblo no seamos presos del inmediatismo, ni del coyunturalismo mediático. Bolivia, ahora, es un proceso. Los cambios materiales/económicos demorarán, pero vendrán. Lo que se ha afianzado en 7 siglos no se puede revertir en una década.

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