Turkménistan: La compétition géoéconomique sur le gaz

On se souvient des tensions inattendues survenues entre Bakou et Achgabat au cours de l’été 2009 lorsque le président turkmène menaçait son homologue azéri de saisir les juridictions internationales afin de régler la question (déjà ancienne) du partage de la Caspienne et des gisements gaziers litigieux que seize rencontres bilatérales n’avaient pas suffi à résoudre. La crise n’aura duré que quelques semaines mais elle aura suffit à préoccuper l’industrie gazière quant à la survie du projet Nabucco. En effet, le projet stratégique doit acheminer le gaz caucasien, et notamment turkmène, en Europe et doit passer par l’Azerbaïdjan.

En réalité, l’enjeu dépasse largement la seule question des relations bilatérales entre les deux Etats. En effet, dans la première phase du projet, seul le gaz azéri est concerné. Mais le gaz turkmène doit intervenir pour sa seconde phase (et passer par l’Azerbaïdjan) afin que le gazoduc fonctionne à pleine capacité. Le projet Nabucco repose donc en partie sur l’harmonie des relations entre les deux pays.
On imagine sans difficulté que le Président Berdymoukhamedov l’aura compris et que la crise de l’été 2009 lui aura servi de deux manières. Le président turkmène y aura vu l’occasion d’avertir l’Azerbaïdjan qu’il fallait résoudre ce conflit s’il voulait pleinement profiter de Nabucco. De plus, le durcissement de sa position lui aura permis de se rendre indispensable à la réalisation du projet (et de faire monter les prix de son gaz). Un règlement du litige opposant Bakou et Achgabat permettrait un déroulement harmonieux de l’initiative Nabucco et représenterait un avantage certain pour les deux Etats. Les présidences turkmène et azéri y auront également sans doute vu l’opportunité de mettre fin à un conflit ancien portant sur le tracé de leurs frontières maritimes et le partage de leurs ressources.
A l’heure actuelle, les relations entre les deux Etats se sont adoucies. Les présidents Berdymoukhamedov et Aliyev donnent l’impression de coopérer afin que des projets stratégiques ne soient pas bloqués par les litiges historiques qui les opposent. L’heure n’est donc plus aux menaces mais à la détente.

Mais les enjeux ne s’arrêtent pas là. Le projet de construction du pipeline et le tracé de son parcours sont contestés par un autre protagoniste de la zone. Nabucco doit acheminer le gaz des deux anciennes républiques soviétiques vers l’Europe en contournant la Russie et l’Ukraine. Le mois de septembre 2011 a marqué le début des négociations entre l’UE et les deux Etats caucasiens. Moscou s’est aussitôt exprimé et la diplomatie russe a condamné l’action de l’UE en la qualifiant d’ingérence susceptible de compliquer la situation dans cette région. La Russie conteste bien évidemment le tracé du gazoduc qui doit permettre aux Etats membres de l’UE de ne plus dépendre de ses seules réserves (suite aux crises gazières récurrentes entre Moscou et Kiev).

Les cinq pays riverains ne sont jamais parvenus à un accord sur le partage des eaux de la Caspienne. Moscou a tenu à rappeler que l’Azerbaïdjan et le Turkménistan ont signé en 2007 une déclaration politique aux termes de laquelle les riverains s’engageaient à ne pas développer des activités hors de leurs eaux territoriales sans l’accord de leurs voisins. Aussi les russes avancent-ils l’argument selon lequel l’ingérence européenne n’aurait d’autres conséquences que la complexification des relations diplomatiques locales. Si, sur cet aspect, il est très probable que Moscou ait raison (sa réaction énergique le prouve), l’on ne peut s’empêcher d’associer ces déclarations à la crainte russe de perdre le monopole gazier dont elle dispose en Europe.

Pourtant, l’Etat russe n’est pas en reste sur le marché puisqu’il concurrence directement Nabucco avec le projet South Stream, qui doit acheminer le gaz exploité par la compagnie Gazprom et relier la mer Caspienne à l’Italie via un réseau terrestre et off-shore de plusieurs milliers de kilomètres. Et comme le rappelait en 2008 le directeur du projet Nabucco Reinhard Mitschek, la croissance de la demande annuelle européenne est telle qu’elle crée des besoins suffisants pour plusieurs gazoducs dont South Stream et Nabucco. Et pourtant la Russie continue de faire preuve de beaucoup de zèle pour mettre à mal ce projet qui pourrait « affranchir » les anciennes républiques soviétiques (mais aussi l’Europe) de son joug énergétique et politique.
En tout état de cause, si l’avenir du projet reste chancelant, le partenaire turkmène apparaissant comme peu fiable, son cadre juridique a toutefois été finalisé en juin 2011 avec la signature d’un accord entre l’Autriche, la Bulgarie, la Hongrie, la Roumanie et la Turquie pour rendre le projet conforme aux législations de ces pays par lesquels transiterait le gazoduc. Les négociations concrètes ne font que commencer mais l’on peut être assuré que Russes, Azéris et tTurkmènes feront preuve de fermeté dans la défense de leurs intérêts respectifs.

Doriane de Lestrange

White power - United States, Britain, France and NATO - Hands off Libya! And out of Africa!

The African Socialist International (ASI) condemns the present and historical barbaric assault on Libya, Africa from imperialist powers who are driven by the profit motive inherent in capitalism, pure and simple.

We condemn the United Nations (UN) as a tool of imperialism being used to ensure and protect neocolonialism in Africa.

 

U.S. bombs destroy home of Colonel Gaddafi, resulting in the deaths of his son and grandchildren

 

It was the United Nations that provided the legal and political cover for the attack on Libya.

It is NATO, under U.S. leadership that is formally carrying out the mission.

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed during the era of colonial supremacy for the purpose of contending with the then-Soviet Union.

The fact that this North Atlantic treaty group has come together to attack Africa helps to expose the fact the the crisis of imperialism is generated in large part by the growing threat to colonial assets traditionally in the hands of white power.

The attack on Libya gives lie to the notion of sovereignty in Africa. Neocolonialism is the fundamental reality that defines the African state, even states attempting to exercise a modicum of independence like Libya.

Remember, neocolonialism is more than the attitude of the head of state or ministers of government.

It is an economic relationship that Kwame Nkrumah recognized as a necessary product of a divided Africa.

The attack on Libya reveals for all to see the vulnerability of any so-called independent African state to stand up alone to the military projections of the imperialist State, independent of the mobilized international African working class.

Libya is standing alone notwithstanding its financial contributions to various of the neocolonial heads of state whose favour Gaddafi courted in his efforts to unite the neocolonial club called the Africa Union (AU).

Not a single one of them has come to his aid although many of them are always available to carry out military missions in Africa to facilitate this or that imperialist foreign policy objective.

The ASI understands that the United Nations was created by white power imperialism and that it is incapable of serving the best interest of Africa and its people, no matter where on this earth we are located.

Our redemption and the peace we long for is only possible in a united and socialist Africa.

We reject UN Security Council seat/s for Nigeria or South Africa, or for the both of them.

These are neocolonial states which would only act in accordance with imperialist wishes and do the bidding of white power.

ASI Chairman, Omali Yeshitela, while addressing the Chinese and their collaboration with imperialism in his Political Report to the Fifth Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party, made this observation: “China also intends to transform its material conditions of existence, not through revolution to overthrow capitalism, but through joining imperialism at the trough.”

Indeed the black petty bourgeoisie leadership of Good Luck Jonathan in Nigeria, or Zuma and the African National Congress in South Africa, are begging to get to the blood-soaked imperialist trough, especially down in South Africa where ruthless anti-black war criminals are still being harboured, and who still have privilege.

The imperialists also hide behind the Arab league, a corrupted organisation of Arab neocolonial dictators who collaborate with the white settler colonial state of Israel.

This imperialist-led boot-licking organization has no legitimacy to decide when an African country should be attacked and its government replaced.

Libya’s stand against Israel must not go unnoticed. It is an important anti-imperialist, anti-zionist stance, as is the similar stand taken by Iran and Syria. The combined influence of Libya, Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. in the face of a weakened Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Algeria certainly is something that has loosened the metaphorical bowels of imperialism.

It is clear that the question of African unity is the most pressing question of our times.

It is a question that not only will determine the fate of Africa and African people worldwide, but it is a question that will determine whether a meaningful future is forthcoming, free of bosses and slaves, that when solved will chart the course for all of humanity.

If we want to stop all imperialists' bestial wars of aggressions, we must participate and accelerate the struggle for a socialist United States of Africa.

The African petty bourgeoisie and its African Union are of no use for Africa and African people.

Together with its counterpart, the Arab petty bourgeoisie and the Arab League cannot fight imperialism.

They are part and parcel of imperialism they have no interest in doing so. They are allies in an unequal partnership.

This aggression launched by US president Barack Hussein Obama under the pretext of saving civilians from Gadaffi’s army is packaged in a bundle of lies in the same way that US president George W Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair used to invade Iraq, then capture and lynch President Saddam Hussein.

They claimed Hussein was acquiring and developing weapons of mass destruction, which later were proved to be pure inventions of the US State Department and CIA.

Everyone already knows, however, that it is the US and its NATO allies that have all the weapons of mass destruction that constitute a threat to the world's existence.

One must pose the question: Why did the indebted and bankrupt British, French and US North American states attack Libya?

The answer: It is to prevent the shifting of power at the expense of Europe and North America.

The downfall of the AU, once championed by Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, will remain a powerless and treacherous organisation, because it is a Pan-Africanist vision that appeals to the heads of neocolonial states who are opposed to the emancipation and power of Africa and of the African workers.

The consolidation of the real shifting of the balance of power in favour of Africa and of the African world begins with the triumph of the African Internationalism of Omali Yeshitela, which is the development of the African Fundamentalism of Garvey, the Socialism of Nkrumah and the revolutionary work of Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba and others; Yeshitelism recognises the necessity to organise into a single organisation of African workers and peasants from around the world to build the United States of Africa, which will end the power of white capitalists and their negro collaborators.

We cannot accept the French, British, US North Americans and others who continue to bamboozle us with lies about democracy and white people saving Africa.

Bourgeois elections anywhere are for the people with money. They are never the voice of the people, but the voice of people with money.

Most of us already know that Africans have no freedom in the west. A conference sponsored by the same UN in September 2001 in Durban, South Africa agreed that slavery and colonialism are crimes against Humanity. How can UN allow them to bomb Libya?

All charity money collected on behalf of Africans in Haiti is still in the hands of white NGO accounts for their own use.

In Libya, the rebels are already selling oil and setting up a central bank. A rebel movement setting up its own bank is a première in world history!

There are reports showing that Obama backed CIA covert actions against Libya before the bombing started.

British SAS were captured in Libya inn March and Western corporations made plans to sell Libyan oil just as they did for Iraq before the invasion occurred.

US president Obama has frozen $30 billion of Libyan funds earmarked for African Projects! And they are steadily bombing the people of Libya to save them.

And finally, our unity with Gadaffi’s government is not based on the inherent legitimacy of the government itself.

It is based on the fact that the imperialists are attempting to rescue themselves from a deep crisis where their political power is being threatened on every front with Libya.

In fact, the same thing is true with Syria.

We don’t validate the regimes.

We invalidate imperialism, although in the case of Libya, as we have said on more than one occasion, Gadaffi stands heads above most of the African cretins that pose as leaders and heads of state.

It is too late; Africans will never accept this invasion of our land. Reparations are still due us from the white world for hundreds of years of stolen black labour and African resources.

Death to Imperialism! Death to Neocolonialism!

Build the African Socialist international, the tool for a genuine unity of Africa and African people world wide.

Statement from African Socialist International, uhuruasi@aol.com, April 26, 2011, London, 07862294364, www.asiuhuru.org

African Socialist International

Sirte civilians accuse NATO of genocide: "They have hit all kinds of buildings: schools, hospitals"

CIVILIANS pouring out of the besieged city of Sirte accused NATO of committing genocide yesterday as revolutionary forces reinforced their numbers and prepared for a new attack on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's home town.

Long lines of civilian vehicles were seen leaving after a night punctuated by NATO air attacks. Forces fighting for the National Transitional Council (NTC) added their own artillery and mortar rounds at regular intervals.

Civilians, many looking scared or sullen, said that conditions inside Sirte were "disastrous". They made claims which, if verified, offer a conundrum for Nato, which operates with a UN mandate on the need to protect civilian life.

"It has been worse than awful," said Riab Safran, 28, as his car was searched by revolutionary fighters. His family had been sleeping on the beach, he said.

"They have hit all kinds of buildings: schools, hospitals," he said, referring to NATO airstrikes.

He said he could not distinguish between NATO and NTC attacks but believed it was a NATO bomb that destroyed part of his home on Saturday. NATO said it hit a number of military targets including a rocket launcher, artillery, and three ammunition stores.

Another resident said: "NATO bombing is killing civilians. Where is the United Nations? Where is the Muslim world to stop this genocide of the people of Sirte?"

The man, who gave his name as Mohammed Ali Alum Sekily, said six members of his family had been killed, but declined to give details. An eight-day-old baby brought out in one car was born on the beach, the family said.

Some of those interviewed by The Times said that Gaddafi loyalists were forcing residents to stay in the city. Others said that residents were frightened of revolutionary fighters who were rumoured to be abducting women from cars trying to leave Sirte.

NTC fighters denied the charges. I saw them offering food and water to those queueing to leave.

Residents said that power and water had run out and petrol was 400 Libyan dinars ($A330) a gallon. The water shortage has produced an epidemic of diseases, according to medical staff at a clinic in the town of Harawa, 35km east of Sirte. However, Gaddafi loyalists appeared to have plentiful stores of pasta, oil, flour and ammunition, residents said. Loyalists used an open radio channel to taunt NTC fighters, insisting that the city would never be taken.

The NTC forces checked the identity papers of those leaving against lists of known Gaddafi security personnel and senior former government figures, and they detained a number of men.

Following their unsuccessful assault on Saturday, one commander said that the NTC leadership thought that the attack was badly co-ordinated.

"We don't want to lose people, we don't want another Saturday, this was a mistake," said Omran Al Awaib from the Tiger Brigade.

The attacking forces lost eight dead and 153 wounded as they tried to move up the main road into the city. But the hard-won gains were abandoned the same evening as NTC troops retreated, leaving a barricade of sand-filled shipping containers. It has now been dismantled by Gaddafi forces.

There was almost no fighting yesterday except for long-range artillery and mortars. NTC forces were finally able to link up with reinforcements pushing towards the city from Benghazi, completing their encirclement of Sirte.

An NTC commander said that a new offensive would begin in the coming days.

THE TIMES

Tom Coghlan

From:The Times

September 27, 2011 1:27PM

Una filtración de Wikileaks, causa de la dimisión del director de Al Jazeera

La influyente cadena de televisión por satélite Al Yasira ha confirmado ladimisión de su director de noticias, Wadah Khanfar, y su sustitución por un gris empresario perteneciente a la familia real de Qatar. La salida de Khanfar se produce poco después de que trascendiera un cable filtrado por «Wikileaks», en el que se da a entender que Khanfar se plegó a presiones del gobierno norteamericano en la cobertura de la guerra de Irak en octubre de 2005.

AFP

La interpretación de «the New York Times» contrasta con la del rotativo británico «The Guardian», para el que la salida del periodista palestino Khanfar —uno de los creadores del enorme poder mediático de «Al Yasira» como jefe de informativos desde hace ocho años— se debe a la presión de los propietarios, la familia real del pequeño estado petrolífero de Qatar. Para el entorno del emir, Khanfar habría obtenido últimamente demasiado poder y autonomía, por lo que «se hizo necesaria su sustitución».

Contradicciones

Sea cual sea la versión más correcta, el cambio pone en entredicho lareputación de Al Yasira como el único canal por satélite independiente del mundo árabe, en un contexto de televisiones públicas completamente controladas por el régimen político de turno.

Los observadores del «fenómeno Al Yasira» venían, no obstante, apuntando desde hace tiempo las contradicciones de este canal, que se ha forjado fama de «neutralidad» en la cobertura de Oriente Próximo y de «agresividad» frente a la política de Estados Unidos en la región.

Se subrayaba en particular el enorme despliegue de medios para cubrir la ofensiva rebelde en Libia contra el régimen de Gadafi, en contraste con la parquedad y sombras en la información de la revuelta en Bahréin. El régimen de Qatar se movilizó públicamente contra la dictadura libia, pero guardó silencio cuando la revuelta chií estuvo a punto de derribar a la minoría suní que gobierna en la isla vecina.

FRANCISCO DE ANDRÉS / MADRID
Día 21/09/2011 - 21.00h

STOP US WARS AROUND THE WORLD - What can we do?

The words that former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara recently used concerning the war that he promoted in Vietnam can be applied to all of our interventionist military adventures:

"We were wrong, terribly wrong."

McNamara didn't appreciate the advice offered by another Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient, General David Shoup, and had him removed as Commandant.

General Shoup said: I believe that if we had, and would, keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these (third World) nations, so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type, because the 'haves' refuse to share with the 'have nots' by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not American style, which they don't want and, above all, don't want crammed down their throats by Americans."

And more recently Rummy didn't listen to Marine Corps General "They've screwed up"

Anthony Zinni

who said that invading Iraq was a strategic blunder.

Years ago, General Butler said: "Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected President in 1916 on a platform he had "kept us out of war." Yet, five months later he asked Congress to declare war on Germany. . . What caused our government to change its mind so suddenly? MONEY."

What can we do to stop the madness? First, fight recruiting and the coming draft. Studies for the Army show parents are the top obstacles to recruiting. "Opposition to . . . military service is increasing significantly among both moms and dads," says a study of 1,200 potential recruits by the firm Millward Brown. Another look at potential recruits, by GfK Custom Research, found that the biggest influences in candidates' decisions to join were mothers, named by 81% of respondents, followed by fathers, at 70%. "Reach the parents with the Army's new message, particularly moms," the study urges. But General Butler had another message.

Smedley Butler said: "The government declares war. To say helplessly: As individuals we have nothing to do with it, we can't prevent it. But WHO ARE WE? Well, WE right now are the mothers and fathers of every able-bodied boy of military age in the United States. "WE" are also you young men of voting age and over, that they'll use for cannon fodder. And "WE" can prevent it. Now--you MOTHERS particularly. The only way you can resist all this war hysteria and beating tomtoms is by hanging on to the love you bear your boys. When you listen to some well-worded, well-delivered war speech, just remember that it's nothing but Sound. It's your boy that matters. And no amount of sound can make up to you for the loss of your boy."

Various anti-recruit, anti-draft and anti-serve organizations are listed at the "links."

It's important to end the current involvement, and even more important to prevent future ones. The war racket has been able to flourish and expand, for the benefit of corporations and not for the people, because our governmental leaders and representatives are not sufficiently constrained by the Constitution in its present form.

Smedley Butler said: "If we really want to make it impossible to have our young men sent abroad to fight the wars of others, then let us by all means insist upon adding the Peace Amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

The ongoing war in Iraq is a poster child for war is a racket for all of the reasons previously covered. Let's make sure that we end it and don't go there again. Our principal overseas bases in Germany and Korea are anachronisms which should have been shuttered long ago. Germany's standard of living is higher than ours and South Korea doesn't need us to defend their Hyundai and Kia auto export plants. And we need to recall the secret, provocative military units now operating under Presidential order in various countries around the world.

We must change our national military

policy

from one which makes us the last imperial empire in the world to one which restores us to the family of nations who enjoy peace and prosperity. We'd be in accordance with the US National Defense Strategy, which states: "The United States and its allies and partners have a strong interest in protecting the sovereignty of nation states. In the secure international order that we seek, states must be able to effectively govern themselves and order their affairs as their citizens see fit. Nevertheless, they must exercise their sovereignty responsibly, in conformity with the customary principles of international law, as well as with any additional obligations that they have freely accepted. It is unacceptable for regimes to use the principle of sovereignty as a shield behind which they claim to be free to engage in activities that pose enormous threats to their citizens, neighbors, or the rest of the international community."

The

US Constitution

has no provision for foreign military adventures. It provides only "for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions."

We'd also be in accordance with the United Nations Charter, which disallows aggression.

Chapter I, Article 2 of the United Nations Charter: All Members shall refrain in their 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.

We need to put the priority back on the people rather than on war-racket profits. It would make us more secure by strengthening our domestic base, heartening our people and making us less disliked abroad.

Smedley Butler said: "The United States is in no danger whatever of military invasion. Even the Navy and War Departments, which are always preparing for war, and the State Department, which is always talking about peace but thinking about war, agree on that. By reason of our geographical position, it is all but impossible for any foreign power to muster, transport and land sufficient troops on our shores for a successful invasion."

We can do it and we will!

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Libya/Warcrimes: Appel Urgent - abus des rebelles/Otan non relaté

Publié le 14 septembre 2011 par Investig'Action - Michel COLLON
Ce qui suit vient d'un e-mail (vérifié), que j'ai envoyé hier à quelqu'un d'Amnesty International. Aujourd'hui, je n'ai pas pu l'envoyer à quelqu'un d'autre, mais j'ai l'intention de le faire bientôt. En attendant, je vais le poster ici sur mon blog, en demandant à toute personne se sentant concernée d'aider à le transmettre. Au moins, nous pouvons être assez sûrs de qui est responsable du massacre survenu à l'hôpital d'Abou Salim. Bien sûr, nous ne pourrons jamais être certains à 100%, le problème étant causé par des gens actuellement hors de contrôle et sourds aux faibles plaidoyers pour le « respect des droits humains ». Ces plaidoyers sont exprimés par les deux parties, mais celle ici en cause semble les ignorer. Les Libyens en payent apparemment le prix.

Appel Urgent: abus des rebelles/OTAN non relaté

J'écris pour vous avertir de certaines choses que j'ai constatées à propos de la découverte sinistre et traumatisante faite récemment à l'hôpital d'Abou Salim à Tripoli. On a beaucoup écrit sur ce lieu depuis le 26 août, avec ses salles abandonnées et peut-être des centaines de corps en décomposition. Mais je crains que les circonstances aient été mal comprises ; en effet, les journalistes ont tendance à quitter les lieux perplexes, sans avoir remarqué quelques-uns des indices les plus importants. J'ai compilé mes recherches sur les médias disponibles publiquement ici : Les massacres de Tripoli. Le drame de l'hôpital d'Abu Salim...
Voici ci-dessous les indices les plus clairs relevés par un couple de journalistes qui les a remarqués, et que nous remercions.
« L'hôpital de Tripoli transformé en "morgue de masse" », Janis Mackey Frayer, "Tripoli hospital turned into 'mass morgue'" Janis Mackey Frayer, CTV News. Sat. Aug. 27 2011 :
On ne sait pas comment les hommes, femmes et enfants sont morts. Les corps que nous avons vus étaient ceux de loyalistes kadhafistes qui ont été blessés dans la bataille. Une affiche de Mouammar Kadhafi présidait une salle pleine de sang, d'eau et des asticots.
Au moins deux hommes ont été abattus dans leur lit. Ils étaient au deuxième étage recouvert de couvertures. Comme les civières avaient été poussées plus loin, on pouvait voir où les balles avaient traversé les oreillers. Le sang sur le mur indiquait qu'il s'agissait d'une exécution. L'un des corps avait une carte militaire libyenne l'identifiant comme un membre des forces spéciales.
Personne ne peut dire si c'ce sont des kadhafistes ou des tireurs rebelles qui les ont exécutés. J'ai demandé à un médecin de me dire depuis combien de temps, à son avis, les deux hommes étaient morts. Il a estimé que le décès remontait à deux ou trois jours, puis a secoué la tête et a marché le long du couloir strié de sang.
Outre les patients, du personnel peut avoir été abattu. Cette photo par Youssef Boudlal devrait être présentée à un expert en médecine légale, mais je pense que cela montre les traces de 3 à 6 exécutions par balle dans ce tronçon de couloir :
Les forces rebelles ont déclaré que le personnel s'était tout simplement « enfui », mais j'ai l'impression qu'il a été exécuté pour que les rebelles puissent se servir des lieux comme d'une sorte de morgue. La couleur de peau des morts est un autre indice : tous ou presque ont la peau noire, selon les journalistes et les photographies. Une autre photo de François Mori montre qu'une des victimes au moins a été décapitée, apparemment dans ce lit (à droite du centre) :
Certains éléments au sein des forces rebelles sont connus pour avoir tué des hommes noirs en particulier et pour avoir coupé des têtes. Je ne peux pas voir là-dedans l'œuvre d'un régime en fuite, faisant tuer ses propres partisans par des snipers, procédant à des exécutions sommaires, ou chassant les médecins pour que les patients meurent faute de soins.
Que peut-on et que doit-on faire à propos des abus possibles commis par les forces du nouveau gouvernement ? Je ne sais pas. Pour ma part, je retroune à mes anciens blogs. J'espère que vous pourrez aider à déclencher l'alarme à propos de cette preuve qui suggère fortement de quoi les gens de Tripoli sont l'objet en l'absence de protection de l'ancien gouvernement.
Lien de l'article : http://www.michelcollon.info/Appel-Urgent-abus-des-rebelles-non.html

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Let's protest against continued U.S./NATO bombing of Libya , which has been steady now for over three months.  There have now been over 10,000 air sorties carried out by NATO in this campaign. In one day mid-June the NATO forces carried out 157 bombing attacks, more than three times the previous national average, on Tripoli in one day.  The death toll in Libya from U.S. , French and British air strikes continues to mount and promises to rise sharply as these powers escalate their attacks on both military and civilian targets.

It is clear that the U.S./NATO goal in Libya has nothing to do with protecting civilians and is, in fact, the greatest danger to Libyan civilians today.  Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa. The objective of U.S./NATO interference is strategic: it consists in achieving regime change and gaining control of the nation's oil wealth under the disguise of a humanitarian intervention. Furthermore, the U.S./NATO war on Libya is increasingly understood as part of the effort of the West to contain and rollback the Arab Spring.

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PLEASE PUT A STOP TO NATO WAR IN LIBYA - APPEAL TO NON-BELLIGERANT UNSC MEMBERS

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“PLEASE PUT A STOP TO THE NATO WAR ON LIBYA!”
WE APPEAL TO NON-BELLIGERENT MEMBERS
OF THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL

• to put an end to the misuse of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 to influence the internal affairs of Libya through warfare, by revoking it, and
• to press for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Libya, backing the African Union's central role in this context.

We thank those countries that have tried, and are still trying, to work towards peace.

Our appeal is based on the following:

• the military intervention in Libya undertaken by some NATO members has now gone far beyond the provisions of Security Council Resolution 1973, and is based on hyped-up accounts of defenseless citizens being massacred by their government, while the truth is that, in Libya, there is an on-going and intense internal armed conflict;
• we are aware of the economic and geo-strategic interests that lie behind the war in Libya and, in particular, behind NATO support of one of the two armed factions;
• NATO military intervention in Libya has killed (and is continuing to kill) countless civilians, as well as harming and endangering the civilian population, including migrants and refugees, in various other ways;
• the belief, at this stage, that only non-belligerent countries – and particularly those with U.N. Security Council voting rights – can successfully bring a peaceful end to the conflict through negotiations and by implementing the opening paragraph of UNSC Resolution 1973, which calls for an immediate ceasefire.

Respectfully yours,

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A Call for African Unity! Stop the US/NATO Bombing of Libya!

Economic basis for invasion

Africa is facing a criminal imperialist invasion of Libya, led by the foremost neo colonialist in Africa, the United States, and organized under the US Africa Command (Africom) and a 28 European nation military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This invasion is a desperate attempt to slow down the inevitable and rapidly approaching collapse of the American economy with its increasingly frequent economic crisis, recessions, and uncontrollable debt of $14.3 trillion dollars; which they can never pay.

This eminent collapse can be seen when we contrast the 1950’s and the anti communist House Committee on Un-American Activities mandated under Public Law 601 during the McCarthy era and “Red Scare,” in which America arrested and destroyed its own settler colonial citizens for being labeled communist affiliated and attempted to militarily overthrow foreign governments like the US embargoe of China in 1950 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. These policies contrast sharply from today in 2011, with America’s largest creditor being the Communist Party of China, which America owes nearly two trillion dollars (US Department of Treasury, 2011) and seeks to borrow more money and go into further debt; with China dominating the balance of trade between the two countries leading with $182.965 billion to America’s $49.553 billion from January to June of 2011 (US Census Bureau, Foreign Trade) .

According to the World Fact Book, 28 NATO countries owe foreign debts of a massive $48.74 trillion dollars, while 53 African Union Countries owe merely $338 billion dollars (World Development Indicators, World Bank). From this we can discover the economic motive of NATO is to break through Libyan security and capture its massive oil resources to fuel its invasion of Africa in order to accelerate the robbery and exploitation of Africa by military means to alleviate their overwhelming debt, while crushing Libya’s major moves for African economic independence. America has calculated this as the only way to forestall China’s influence and economic domination over them, block Chinese competition in Africa for resources, and to inject wealth into their economy which is like murdering an innocent healthy person to take their blood and inject it into a dying corpse. This is the new phase of neo-colonialism.

Action with thought

Africans worldwide must now mobilize and organize to confront and defeat America’s invasion of Libya at this historic point in history to accelerate Africa’s liberation, economic independence, and unity. We are calling on all Africans in every country in Africa and throughout the African world to confront American imperialism with demonstrations and “positive action” at every U.S. embassy in the world as a demonstration of power and unity on the 102nd birthday of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, the greatest African of the 20th century; the day is 21st September 2011. Osagyefo spent time in England and discovered its weak economy following World War II, then planned a political strategy with an economic offensive of boycotts, strikes, and demonstrations, “positive action,” to cripple England and win independence for Ghana on 6th March 1957. Today America’s economy is weak and in the spirit of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, we are calling on Africans to demonstrate, strike, and boycott, on 21st September 2011, in solidarity with Libya’s armed resistance, to win total independence for Africa.

We are also calling on the African Union to break all military pacts with NATO countries. We are calling on all Africans to “confiscate all assets” of NATO countries. We appeal to all the governments of the world that are against US/NATO hegemony, murder and pillage, to heed to the demand of the masses and apply economic sanctions on America and NATO countries to put a stop their madness. This can be done by in blocks like the African Union, Non Aligned Movement, Group of 77, Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Latin America, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and other regional and international groupings. Power comes from the organized working masses of the people and their labor, not the capitalist class and their dependence on disorganizing and exploiting the working masses labor for profit to maintain power.

Africa at a crossroad

Today Africa is at a crossroads facing, on the one hand, America’s Africa Command and US/NATO military occupation to further entrench neo colonialism. If successful, this will result in increased theft of Africa’s resources by the European capitalist class, greater exploitation of the African working masses, and the re-enforcement and strengthening of white supremacy in Africa. On the other hand, Africa faces the very real prospect of a military victory in Libya, the acceleration of a United States of Africa, the seizure of control over Africa’s resources and economy by the working masses under socialism, and the emergence of the African personality on the world stage.

Defend liberated zones

Libya is a “liberated zone” based on Kwame Nkrumah’s criteria from the zonal analysis in his book, “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare.” Libya therefore represents Africa’s future as a free and liberated continent. Libya secured its independence in 1969 by mass, anti imperialist armed struggle to bring a revolutionary and socialist Jamahiriya ‘authority of the masses’ to power. The puppet neo colonial monarch, King Idriss, was overthrown by force. Economic development, education, health care, housing, infrastructure, and human development were accelerated, with Libya having the highest living standard in Africa. Libya is totally independent of foreign economic interest. It has an independent ideology, outlined in the Green Book, and therefore the Libyan masses and leadership think for themselves.

Libya is leading the movement to establish an African Continental Government, with continental institutions like the African Monetary Fund, African Central Bank to establish a common gold currency, African Investment Bank, and African High Command. These institutions are being established and fueled by Libyan oil revenues to take economic control over Africa by Africans and to defeat American neo colonialism; the last stage of imperialism, once and for all. The starting budget to create this wealth mechanism was $42 billion, from which Libya as Africa's richest state put in $32 billion and other African states $10 billion. The $32 billion along with another estimated $150 billion of Libyan money in banks outside Libya was stolen by the U.S. and E.U. on the pretense that it was "Qaddafi's money". The project to free Africa from the World Bank and IMF is now impeded. Therefore, it is the sacred responsibility of every African to defend Libya to ensure a future of freedom and dignity for the generations of Africa, yet to be born. Now is the time!

Nkrumah-Toure-Qathafi

Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah succeeded in establishing a Pan Africanist and Socialist Republic of Ghana on 1st July 1960 with an 88% vote in a plebiscite and then with an unprecedented 99% vote in a referendum in 1964 (African Elections Database), this mass revolutionary policy was consolidated one year after declaring Ghana a Pan Africanist state with the declaration of the Union of African States on 1st July 1961, with Ghana, Guinea, and Mali creating a nucleus for the formation of a continental government for Africa. Today Qathafi is continuing the process by establishing socialism and taking control of the Libya’s resources, expelling the US, UK, and Italian military bases from Libya, supporting liberation movements in Africa and throughout the world, ceding total power to the masses of the people in 1977 by resigning as Libyan Head of State, and serving as the driving force to change the Organization of African Unity to the African Union as a step towards establishing an All African Union Government.
Imperialist/reactionary alliance is neo-colonialism

The United States CIA, NATO, and internal reactionaries who overthrew the “liberated zone” under Nkrumah’s government on 24 February 1966; “a day of national crime, sin, shame and anarchy,” invaded the “liberated zone” of Guinea in a failed attempt to overthrow Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah as co-Presidents in 1970, with NATO mercenaries. These are essentially the same forces invading Libya today. The difference is only tactical with the Libyan reactionaries mainly consisting of Al Qaeda religious terrorists, the Guinean invasion being spearheaded by Portuguese mercenary terrorists, while the anti Nkrumah reactionaries were National Liberation Movement and Mate Meho tribalist terrorists; all teleguided by US imperialism. This suggests any time an African country chooses Pan Africanism and socialism and works for Africa’s unity and control of its economy as a liberated zone, America will lead a subversive alliance, using violent and illegal means to overthrow the government to impose neo colonialism. They do this in order to maintain their criminal system of robbing Africa at the maximum rate of exploitation; normally applying the method of divide and conquer.

Lessons from the past

In the 1960’s America used the National Liberation Movement (NLM), Mate Meho tribalists (‘I’ve seperated myself’), and National Liberation Council (NLC) reactionary movements to violently overthrow the great Nkrumah after 15 years of resisting US backed subversion, assassination attempts on President Nkrumah, and killing of innocent women and children with bomb throwing at state events. Guinea learned from the lesson of Ghana, trained the population militarily, and fought off the NATO military invasion of 1970, plus many imperialist intrigues to hold power as a liberated zone for 26 years; until the counter revolution after Sekou Toure’s death in 1984. Today America uses the Sanussi monarchists, Al Qaeda terrorists (Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi), CIA agents (Abdoulgassim Khalifa Hafter), and corrupt government Officials (Mustafa Abdul Jalil) to launch a counter revolution in Libya after being a liberated zone for 42 years. Since African liberated zones are lasting longer and becoming stronger, these reactionary elements cannot succeed. Therefore, America had to bring a 28 European nation NATO armed invasion to back up the local reactionaries with constant aerial bombing.

We conclude from these facts that African liberated zones have advanced militarily to the point of being able to challenge American imperialism and that neo colonialism is at its weakest point and it is desperate to hold onto Africa’s resources to delay its inevitable collapse. This becomes crystal clear when we witness a liberated zone of 6 million people in Libya defeating the internal reactionaries and the US/NATO alliance of over 28 European nations and militaries at the same time even during the month of Muslim fasting.

US war is against Africa

When Africans confront the enemy worldwide we will definitely turn the invasion into a victory for Africa and a turning point for Africa’s total liberation and Unity. It’s time to make the move!

The African Union has taken a position for the Libyan governments right to repress the terrorist counter-revoluitonaries of the NTC and against the NATO invasion of Libya in the African Union Peace and Security Council, and as an entire AU continental body; which has maintained its refusal to recognize the National Transitional Council as the government of Libya (despite NATO pressure). The Chairman of the AU Peace and Security Council, Zimbabwe President Mugabe has boldly called NATO a terrorist organization, likened to Al Qaeda. Because of neo colonial influences on most of Africa’s leadership, the US and NATO are disregarding the AU’s position with contempt and utter disrespect. This is why the African masses must confront US neo colonialism without fear. We are calling for a “US/NATO Hands Off Libya” coalition to be formed throughout Africa to defeat the US/NATO invasion of Libya as a step toward uniting Africa with a continental government and a socialist economic system to win economic independence; taking full control over Africa’s resources! Revolutionary Pan Africanist Kwame Ture Stated,

“Africa is our Mother! And if you throw bombs at our Mother, as Africa is our Mother, we will throw bombs at you! ...When you bomb Libya you’re not getting a limited war! This war, like Africa’s children, whom you have scattered all over the world, knows no boundaries! Anywhere there is an African, there will be war for Africa!”

The time is now!

We in the Pan African Improvement Organization are calling on all Africans in Africa to use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations. Africans in Europe use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations. Africans in Central, South America, and the Caribbean use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations. Africans in America use Positive Action and converge on government buildings inside America with demonstrations. All allies of Africa, we are asking you to use Positive Action and converge on all US embassies with demonstrations, not only against the US/NATO bombing of Libya, but also against the illegal US/EU sanctions on Zimbabwe, US illegal military invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and aggressions towards Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and countless other acts of military aggression and crimes against sovereign nations and people of the world. Let us together end US hegemony; BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!

Victory to Muammar Qathafi!

Victory to the Libyan Jamahiriya!

Forward to an African Union Government under Socialism!

Death to US/NATO hegemony!

Forward to the African Revolution!

By Akili Secka, Chairman of Education and Culture on the People's Committee of the Pan African Improvement Organization - email: panafrimprv@yahoo.com

The Rape of Libya: NATO Special Forces on the Ground, by Bill Van Auken

Five days after “rebels” entered Tripoli, under the cover of NATO bombing and led by foreign special forces, the abject criminality of imperialism’s takeover of Libya is becoming increasingly evident.

Fighting continues to rage throughout the Libyan capital, whose two million residents have been made hostages of the armed gangs and Western special forces troops that have seized control of the city’s streets.

The focus of NATO operations has become a frantic effort to hunt down and murder Muammar Gaddafi, who has ruled the country for 42 years. A $2 million bounty has been placed on his head, and the British media now openly boast that SAS special forces troops are leading the search for him and his family. A vast array of US armed Predator drones, AWACS spy planes and other surveillance equipment has been concentrated on the North African country to facilitate the manhunt.

Fierce Gunbattle in Tripoli Streets, Smoke from air attacks 26.08.11

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The pretense that the US and its European NATO allies were intervening in Libya to “protect civilians and civilian populated areas from threat of attack,” as stated in the United Nations Security Council resolution, has effectively been abandoned. Behind the fig leaf of this resolution the naked imperialist and colonial character of the war has emerged.

The Security Council’s stipulations that ground troops not be introduced into the country, that an arms embargo be kept in place and that mercenaries be prevented from entering Libya have all been flouted in this criminal operation to seize control of an oil-rich former colony and loot its resources.

There is barely any attempt to hide the fact that special forces, intelligence agents and mercenary military contractors have organized, armed and led the “rebels”, who have not made a single advance without the prior annihilation of government security forces by NATO warplanes.

After being terrorized for five months by NATO bombs and missiles, the people of Tripoli are now facing sudden death and a looming humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the NATO campaign to “protect civilians”.

Kim Sengupta of the Independent reported Thursday from the Tripoli neighborhood of Abu Salim, which the “rebels” stormed under the cover of NATO air strikes. Known as a pro-Gaddafi area, its residents have been subjected to a reign of terror.

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“There was no escape for the residents of Abu Salim, trapped as the fighting spread all around them,” Sengupta reported. “In the corner of a street, a man who was shot in the crossfire, the back of his blue shirt soaked in blood, was being carried away by three others. ‘I know that man, he is a shopkeeper,’ said Sama Abdessalam Bashti, who had just run across the road to reach his home. ‘The rebels are attacking our homes. This should not be happening.

“‘The rebels are saying they are fighting government troops here, but all those getting hurt are ordinary people, the only buildings being damaged are those of local people. There has also been looting by the rebels, they have gone into houses to search for people and taken away things. Why are they doing this?’”

Asked why local residents were resisting the NATO-led force’s takeover of the city, Mohammed Selim Mohammed, a 38-year-old engineer, told the Independent, “Maybe they just do not like the rebels. Why are people from outside Tripoli coming and arresting our men?”

Meanwhile, other reports laid bare war crimes carried out by NATO and its local agents on the ground in Tripoli. Both the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies documented a massacre perpetrated against Gaddafi supporters in a square adjacent to the presidential compound that was stormed and looted on Tuesday.

“The bodies are scattered around a grassy square next to Moammar Gadhafi’s compound of Bab al-Aziziya. Prone on grassy lots as if napping, sprawled in tents. Some have had their wrists bound by plastic ties,” AP reported.

“The identities of the dead are unclear but they are in all likelihood activists that set up an impromptu tent city in solidarity with Gadhafi outside his compound in defiance of the NATO bombings.” AP said that the grisly discovery raised “the disturbing specter of mass killings of noncombatants, detainees and the wounded.”

FREE LIBYA - 25.08.2011 - All people in the world supports Jamahirya - Stop the EU / NATO WAR!

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Among the bodies of the executed the report added were several that “had been shot in the head, with their hands tied behind their backs. A body in a doctor’s green hospital gown was found in the canal. The bodies were bloated.”

Reporting from the same killing field, Reuters counted 30 bodies “riddled with bullets”. It noted that “Five of the dead were at a field hospital nearby, with one in an ambulance strapped to a gurney with an intravenous drip still in his arm.” Two of the bodies, it said, “were charred beyond recognition.”

Amnesty International has raised urgent concerns about the killing, torture and brutalization of people being rounded up by the “rebels,” particularly African migrant workers who have been singled out for retribution because of the color of their skin.

In a report from a makeshift detention camp set up by the NATO-led forces in a Tripoli school, Amnesty stated:

“In an overcrowded cell, where some 125 people were held with barely enough room to sleep or move, a boy told Amnesty International how he had responded to calls by al-Gaddafi's government for volunteers to fight the opposition.

“He said that he was driven to a military camp in Az-Zawiya, where he was handed a Kalashnikov rifle that he did not know how to use.

“He told Amnesty International: ‘When NATO bombed the camp around 14 August, those who survived fled. I threw my weapon on the ground, and asked for refuge in a home nearby. I told the owners what happened, and I think they called the revolutionaries [thuuwar], because they came shortly after.

“‘They shouted for me to surrender. I put my hands up in the air. They made me kneel on the ground and put my hands behind by head. Then one told me to get up. When I did, he shot me in the knee at close range. I fell on the ground, and they continued beating me with the back of their rifles all over my body and face.

“‘I had to get three stitches behind my left ear as a result. In detention, sometimes they still beat us and insult us, calling us killers.’”

FREE LIBYA - 25.08.11 - Appeal to all people in the world! The Libyan genocide must be stopped!

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A pro-Gaddafi soldier told a similar story, recounting that he was captured August 19 while bringing supplies to his unit. “He said that he was beaten all over his body and face with the backs of rifles, punched and kicked. He bore visible marks consistent with his testimony.”

Amnesty said that “rebel” leaders estimated that one-third of the detainees were “foreign mercenaries,” meaning sub-Saharan Africans. “When Amnesty International spoke to several of the detainees, however, they said they were migrant workers. They said that they had been taken at gunpoint from their homes, workplaces and the street on account of their skin colour.” Several said that they feared for their lives and that guards had told them that they would be “eliminated or else sentenced to death.”

Among those detained were a family of five from Chad, including a minor, who were taken off of a truck while being driven to a farm to collect produce. A 24-year-old man from Niger who had worked in Libya for five years told Amnesty that armed men had seized him from his home, handcuffed and beaten him and thrown him into the trunk of a car. “I am not at all involved in this conflict,” he said. “All I wanted to do was to make a living. But because of my skin colour, I find myself here, in detention. Who knows what will happen to me now.”

The human rights group also cited a report from a Reuters reporting team which saw a “rebel” pickup truck carrying three black men in the back. One of them told Reuters he was Nigerian. “He sobbed as he said: ‘I do not know Gaddafi. I do not know Gaddafi. I am only working here.’”

News reports and statements from international aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe in the city as a result of the NATO siege. Reporting from a local hospital, the Telegraph said: “As battle raged in the Tripoli streets hundreds of casualties were brought in, rebel fighters, Gaddafi’s soldiers, and unlucky civilians, laying next to each other in bed and even on a floor awash with blood, screaming or moaning in agony. Many died before they could be treated.”

The paper interviewed Dr. Mahjoub Rishi, the hospital’s Professor of Surgery: “There were hundreds coming in within the first few hours. It was like a vision from hell. Missile injuries were the worst. The damage they do to the human body is shocking to see, even for someone like me who is used to dealing with injuries.” Most of the casualties, he said, were civilians caught in the crossfire.

The Telegraph reported that Tripoli’s two other major hospitals were similarly overflowing with casualties and desperately understaffed, as were all of the city’s private hospitals.

The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned that the city is facing a medical “catastrophe”.

The group told Reuters that “Medical supplies ran low during six months of civil war [i.e., NATO bombardment] but have almost completely dried up in the siege and battle of the past week. Fuel supplies have run out and the few remaining medical workers are struggling to get to work.” The lack of fuel means that hospitals that have kept their power by running generators can now no longer do so.

FREE LIBYA - 25.08.11 - Viva Muammar Gaddafi, Libya And Its People

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Health officials in Tripoli report that blood supplies have run out at the hospitals and that food and drinking water is unavailable over whole areas of Tripoli.

Meanwhile the governments of Algeria, Venezuela and South Korea have all reported that their embassies in Tripoli have been attacked and looted by “rebel” gunmen. While the governments of Algeria and Venezuela had opposed the NATO invasion and supported Gaddafi, South Korea, a close US ally, had taken no such positions.

The universal euphoria of the US and much of the European media, which is “embedded” with NATO and its “rebels,” cannot conceal the brutal reality that a war waged under the pretense of human rights and protecting civilians has unleashed immense death, human suffering and destruction.

Far from a “revolution” or struggle for “liberation,” what the world is witnessing is the rape of Libya by a syndicate of imperialist powers determined to lay hold of its oil wealth and turn its territory into a neo-colonial base of operations for further interventions throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Global Research, August 26, 2011

Libya talks - the song Hey Arabs

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ليبيا تتحدث - أغنية هييه عرب

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Muammar Gaddafi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlQOYz-jdE

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or, for example – to develope sports:

or, for example – to improve streets:

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Líbia/Neocolonialismo 2011: Como se destroi um país em tempo récord – Empenho angolano em África

A morte dos líbios não deve passar em vão. Urge o nascimento de um novo africanismo, de um maior impenho pela união continente, pela sua democratização e real independência.

É conhecimento aceite por todos, que as guerras africanas são sempre manipuladas, se nós angolanos queremos crescer/desenvolver o nosso país, devemos antes de tudo trabalhar sobre nós mesmos (temos que nos tornar bons angolanos, honestos cidadãos, gente justa que pede justiça), temos que nos empenhar na criação de espaços de participação na busca de melhorias nas condições de vida dos angolanos em primis, e dos amigos de Angola.

Todos, mas todos mesmo, todos os angolanos são chamados a trabalhar pela pátria, pela República de Angola - que merece respeito e admiração, não obstante as vezes se comporta como mãe que abondona os próprios filhos. Mas é sempre a nossa mãe.

Trabalhemos pela fortificação da nossa região SADC, do nosso continente, ÁFRICA. África must be unite... O sangue dos líbios não pode ser esquecido, o sacrifício de quem enfrenta o exercito mais grande de todos os tempo deve ser recordado. Se fosse por dinheiro, aqueles militares já teriam desertados, aquilo que vemos é patriotismo.

PÁTRIA, PÁTRIA, PÁTRIA. Quem ama obtem o direito de criticar, lutar pela pessoa amada. Assim a questão angolana. E quando o amor é grande, a luta nunca é infinita...

Viva Angola, Viva África, honor e glória à todos os homens e mulheres que lutam por um mundo melhor.

Bombardeamento humanitário da OTAN em Líbia - Mortes, destruição, terror, HUMILHAÇÃO!

LIBYA 25/08/2011 - LA GUERRA DE LIBIA RECIEN COMIENZA: MILLONES EN EL MUNDO Y EN AUXILIO DEL PUEBLO LIBIO

LA GUERRA DE LIBIA RECIEN COMIENZA:

...MILLONES EN EL MUNDO Y EN AUXILIO DEL PUEBLO LIBIO Y SUS PETICIONES Y SUS PRERROGATIVAS EN JUSTO DERECHO, HACEMOS UN LLAMADO DE RECOMPENSA PARA ADDEL JALIL, REPRESENTANTE DEL CNT Y A CADA UNO DE SU SEQUITO. EL PUEBLO LIBRE, DEMOCRATICO Y LEAL DE LIBIA SE COMPROMETE A PAGAR POR ESTA RATA TRAIDORA Y CUALQUIER OTRA, SEA VIVO O MUERTO. Y POR LAS SIGUIENTES ATENUANTES:

-1) الإبادة الجماعية!، 2) تدمير ونهب ليبيا!، 3)العرقية التطهير!، 4) دخول الارهابيين والمرتزقةللترهيب ، وسرقة واغتصاب! 5)دعوة مفتوحة للاغتيالات السياسية والاحتلال! 6) منحة مفتوحة منأصول ليبية والمواردمن الدول الأجنبية والشركات!، 7) الخيانة والتجسس ! قوى الشر الأجنبية، 8)مؤامرة أدت إلى التطورات في أزمة -- وكاذبة تقارير وسائل الاعلام من عمليات القتل على يدالقناصةحلف شمال الاطلسي لمواطنين ليبيين -- إلقاء اللوم على الحكومة وزعزعة الاستقراروجلبقرار كاذبة 9) الرعب والوحشية! قتل المدنيين والسجناء، 10) اغتصاب وحشيوقتل النساء --! بمنفيهم الأطفال، 11) للحصول على أي دولة أخرى معروفة وغير معروفة حتى جرائم المتمردينوالمرتزقة والارهابيين ومنظمة حلف شمال الأطلسي (أنهاتتحمل المسؤولية عن جميع أعضاءالمجلس من الفئران! -- الملك لا سيما -- الجرذ)!!! نفعل ذلك! أعلنت جوائز لهؤلاء الارهابيينوالخونة والعملاء! دعونا يشعرون بأنهم مهددون.... حتى المتمردين!!!!!!!!

Spanish Traslate:

Cargos -1) GENOCIDIO!, 2) la destrucción y saqueo de Libia!, 3) limpieza étnica!, 4) la entrada de terroristas y mercenarios para aterrorizar, robar y la violación! 5) Convocatoria de asesinatos políticos y la ocupación! 6) una donación libre de los bienes libios y los recursos de los países extranjeros y corporaciones!, 7) por traición y espionaje ! exterior las fuerzas del mal, 8) La asociación llevó todevelopments en la crisis - y los informes de los medios de comunicación falsa de los asesinatos cometidos por francotiradores de la OTAN a los ciudadanos libios - a culpar al gobierno y desestabilizar y traer falsa resolución 9) el terror y el asesinato brutal de civiles y prisioneros,! 10) Brutal violación y asesinato de mujeres - en particular los niños, 11) para cualquier otro conocido y notknown a los crímenes de los insurgentes, terroristas, mercenarios y de la OTAN (que tienen la responsabilidad de todos los miembros de la Junta de ratas -! especialmente el rey - Rata) ! ¡Hazlo! anuncia premios para estos traidores, andpuppets terroristas! Vamos a sentirse amenazados .... incluso los rebeldes !!!!!

Ingles Traslate:

1) GENOCIDE!, 2) the destruction and pillaging of Libya!, 3) ethnic cleansing!, 4) entry of terrorists and mercenaries to terrorize, rob and rape! 5) Open call for political assassinations and occupation! 6) an open donation of Libyan assets and resources of foreign countries and corporations!, 7) treason and spying foreign evil forces!, 8) Conspiracy led todevelopments in the crisis - and false media reports of killings by NATO snipers Libyan citizens to - to blame the government and destabilizing and bringing false resolution! 9) terror and brutal killings of civilians and prisoners!, 10) Brutal rape and murder of women - including children !!! , 11) for any other known and notknown unto crimes insurgents, terrorists, mercenaries and NATO (they bear responsibility for all members of the Board of rats)! Do it! Announced awards for these traitors, terrorists andpuppets! Let's feel threatened .... even the rebels!!!!!

Libye 2011: Plan de paix de l’Union africaine - l’OTAN refuse la démocratie!

Il existe une solution pacifique en Libye. Il s'agit d'un plan de paix proposé par l'Union africaine. Kadhafi a accepté ce plan ; la France, l'Angleterre, les USA et les rebelles l'ont rejeté. Pourquoi ? Son contenu est pourtant pleinement démocratique et son application permettrait une vraie protection des civils, conformément à la résolution de l'ONU servant de justification à la guerre.

Propositions de l'Union africaine¹ :

1. Un cessez-le-feu immédiat.
2. L'envoi d'observateurs internationaux pour vérifier que le cessez-le-feu est respecté.
3. La création d’un gouvernement de transition comprenant des membres du CNT et du gouvernement actuel.
4. La mise en place de réformes démocratiques.
5. La tenue d'élections pour que le peuple puisse choisir ses dirigeants.

Selon l'Union africaine, Kadhafi a accepté ces propositions et assuré qu'il ne ferait pas partie du «  processus de négociation². » Pourquoi donc les pays de l'OTAN refusent-ils de s'engager sur la voie de la négociation ? Pourquoi les médias occidentaux ne nous informent-ils pas du contenu réel des propositions de l'Union africaine ? Pourquoi aucun parti en France et en Belgique ne fait campagne pour la paix, alors qu'une solution pacifique existe ? De quoi s'interroger sur les buts véritables de la guerre, le rôle des médias et celui de nos dirigeants.

Notes

1. Voir : « Décision sur le règlement pacifique de la crise libyenne », communiqué de presse, session extraordinaire de la conférence de l'Union sur l'état de la paix et de la sécurité en Afrique, Addis Abeba, 25 mai 2011.
2. Communiqué de presse de l'UA, Malabo, 1er juillet 2011.

Source : michelcollon.info

Libya/Neocolonialism: After rebels captured his compound, Gaddafi remains defiant and unfazed

Gaddafi after his compound was destroyed by 64 NATO air strikes: "We are resisting with all our strength... we will either win or become martyrs."

By Madison Ruppert

No matter what your political persuasion or opinion of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, you have to give him this: he sure is persistent and resilient.

Earlier today crashed through the gates of Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound, Bab al-Aziziya and quickly engaged in widespread looting and celebration which was quickly captured by the media and displayed across the world.

However, a victory is still not in sight for the rebels. As they have since the first weeks of the uprising, the opposition pretends this to be the case, along with much of the media and Western officials.

In reality, Gaddafi still has not been captured, nor has his son Saif al-Islam.

Even the compound of Bab al-Aziziya itself has yet to be completely won over by the rebels, with loyalist fighters still remaining throughout the compound and the city of Tripoli itself.

While the rebels have actually only made a symbolic and strategic victory, and not a total victory as people had expected, they did manage to make off with Gaddafi’s golf cart, furs and weapons.

The mainstream media coverage of the conquering of the Bab al-Aziziya compound has been confused to say the least.

While Gaddafi and his family have yet to be captured, some are characterizing this as “the most conclusive evidence yet that Colonel Gaddafi’s rule was at an end”.

Gaddafi has confirmed that he is still indeed alive and kicking, still standing in defiance of the Western-backed rebels and the NATO imperialists that have been bombing Libya into the Stone Age for months on end.

In a statement to a Tripoli-based radio station, Gaddafi characterized his retreat as a “tactical move” and has vowed to resist “the aggression with all strength” until he achieves either victory or martyrdom.

Crediting the rebels for capturing Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound is a bit ludicrous, as a whopping 64 NATO airstrikes were carried out on the compound in preparation of the rebel advance.

Even the Associated Press described this large series of airstrikes as turning Gaddafi’s compound “to rubble.”

The troops in Tripoli, in the rebel leaders’ own admission, are “not under any unified command.” Indeed all of Tripoli is not even under rebel control at this point with at least two other areas still devoted to defending Gaddafi.

That being said, there are still forces loyal to Gaddafi embedded in neighborhoods which the rebels consider to be in control, with snipers firing upon rebels whenever possible.

The Rixos Hotel, in the Abu Salim neighborhood of Tripoli is housing a group of international journalists who have been trapped inside for days on end.

Some reports claim that the journalists are being held hostage, while the BBC reported on Tuesday that the Rixos Hotel was under fire, forcing journalists to take shelter inside.

Again, the information coming out of Libya is confused and at times deliberately misrepresented or completely manufactured without any semblance of truth.

The rebels have yet to explain why rebel leaders in Benghazi lied in reporting that they had captured Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi’s second son. The mainstream media is also now ignoring their claim that they also killed Muammar Gaddafi himself.

The massive egg-on-face moment occurred when Saif al-Islam freely walked into the Rixos Hotel to converse with international journalists and inform them that they had been propagandized and that his father was still standing strong inside of Tripoli.

One of the top rebel leaders, Mahmoud Jibril, attempted to explain it away by saying that it was a misunderstanding, yet he could not manage to explain why the “rumor” and “misunderstanding” were left uncorrected until it became painfully obvious that it was a complete lie with Saif al-Islam showing up at the Rixos Hotel.

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Tripoli/NATO WAR: Globalist Richard Haas Calls for NATO Occupation of Libya

Or, "How the Devil Pays"
By Tony Cartalucci

The Financial Times has featured an editorial penned by Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haas titled, "Libya Now Needs Boots on the Ground," where the arch globalist states that Libya's rebels are in no way capable of rebuilding Libya properly and will require an "international force" to maintain order. Haas breathtakingly admits that the NATO intervention to "protect civilians" was in fact a political intervention designed to bring about regime change. With NATO leading the offensive against Tripoli, a relatively calm city until now, the alleged cause of "protecting civilians" rings hollower than ever.


Photo: One of the founding fathers of Al Qaeda, Robert Gates (left) and CFR president Richard Haas (right).

Haas goes on to explain that NATO's "success" is what requires this international assistance in the predictable form of an occupation force to deal with looting, "die-hard regime supporters," and tribal war. Haas also implores Obama to reconsider his decision to rule out American boots on the ground and to do so quickly.
Of course, NATO didn't just spend the last 5 months conducting 7,000+ airstrikes on Libya to "protect civilians" and then ride off into the sunset. This was a war of conquest from the very beginning, with globalists openly declaring it would determine the "primacy of international law" over the nation-state. In fact, the initial uprising itself was gestated in Washington and London where opposition leaders were provided resources and safe-havens to conduct their sedition, with globalist stooges like Ibrahim Sahad literally sitting in front of the White House calling for NATO to bomb his homeland. NATO, its members, particularly the US, UK, and France, and the globalist corporate-financiers behind them, fully intend to rebuild Libya according to their own aspirations shoehorned into a national consensus imposed upon the Libyan people under the guise of "democracy" and "civil society." We are watching a modern empire expand its boundaries into yet another sovereign nation.

Readers may remember an April 2011 article titled "Libyan Rebels Fighting the Globalists' War" with the ever increasingly appropriate subtitle, "How the Devil Pays." In it a caption attempts to sum up Libya's future by stating, "if these rebels really think the West is going to hand them Libya and its riches, they have another thing coming. The Neo-Con arm of the globalist agenda is already seeding the ground to deal with "extremists" coming to power after the "Arab Spring" runs its course. That means Libya's oil & future will be left in the hands of NATO troops, not the Libyan people."
The article continues:
"While the dichotomy of Western politics is merely for public consumption, what each camp states publicly can be put together as a composite giving us a clearer picture of the overall globalist agenda. Neo-Conservative war monger Daniel Pipes, a PNAC signatory, CFR member, and co-conspirator in many of the darkest chapters of recent American history, was recently sharing his "doubts" over the final result of the "Arab Spring." He believes that ultimately extremists will prevail in many cases and only complicate US relations with certain countries.
Of course, Pipes most likely didn't miss the memo and is fully aware that the "Arab Spring" is a US funded gambit, one his fellow "Neo-Cons" lining the National Endowment for Democracy and the fraudulent Freedom House are admittedly involved in. At the very least, he must have picked up the New York Times and read as much. So what exactly is Pipes trying to tell us? He is saying that as soon as the Libyan rebels secure Libya, or the Muslim Brotherhood takes hold of Syria, or Yemen, or wins out in a co-opted counterrevolution against International Crisis Group stooge Mohamed ElBaradei in Egypt, the blinders Western propagandists seem to be wearing will suddenly drop and point out that indeed the globalists have installed extremists "by accident."
To rectify this, Libyan rebels will be betrayed just as quickly as Qaddafi was. They will be removed from power, and replaced by Western stooges protected by NATO ground troops, conveniently already being put on the ground in Libya, and will stay there permanently. The globalist "Neo-Con" think tank Foreign Policy Initiative has stated, "The best way to reduce the potential dangers posed by extremist infiltration is for the United States and its allies to remain engaged in Libya."
This engagement most likely will take the shape of the other unending "engagements" in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the years of cross-border raids into Pakistan. The oil money that once built water ways, public housing, and farms from Benghazi to Tripoli, will be funneled directly out of the country and into the corporate-financier's accounts. The corporate-financier oligarchs will have taken yet another nation-state down with the help of its own gullible population, and for their gullibility, they will pay for the rest of their lives, as will their children and their children's children.
To understand the full scope of the global corporate-financier oligarchy's designs toward any given nation, we must simply look back at the brazen admissions made over the intended future stemming from the outright military conquest of Iraq and Paul Bremer's (CFR) planned economic reformation of the broken nation. The Economist enumerates the "economic liberalization" of Iraq in a piece titled "Let's all go to the yard sale: If it all works out, Iraq will be a capitalist's dream:"
1. 100% ownership of Iraqi assets.
2. Full repatriation of profits.
3. Equal legal standing with local firms.
4. Foreign banks allowed to operate or buy into local banks.
5. Income and corporate taxes capped at 15%.
6. Universal tariffs slashed to 5%.
Anyone who would willfully make a deal with such people must have their discernment called into question. As Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said of Hosni Mubarak's decades of appeasing the globalists and his eventual ousting from power at the hands of US funded, trained, and supported protesters, "that's how the devil pays." Indeed it is, and it is an instructive lesson for others including the rebels of Benghazi to consider as they attempt to make their own deals with the globalists today."
And indeed, as NATO rushes through to the finish line with a spectacular display of mass-murder and mayhem in Libya, and with the rebels dancing in the streets as NATO warplanes roar overhead, the time is soon approaching for Benghazi to pay back the West for their "help."
As pundits in the duplicitous corporate media feign ignorance over the future of Libya, as if it is truly in the hands of the Libyan people as Obama cartoonishly portrayed in his latest teleprompter reading, the self-proclaimed "Transitional National Council" leader Gibril Elqarfally gave us cyrstal clear picture of Libya's future - one inspired by globalization. In a May 12, 2011 talk before the Brookings Institution, he claimed “what’s taking place is a natural product of the globalizational process that started in the mid-80′s.”
Elwarfally talks about a “new global cultural paradigm,” “new global values,” common values, shared by many “young people.” These young people, he says, are calling for human dignity, democracy, and inclusion at all levels of national government, repeating verbatim statements coming from geopolitical meddler Zbigniew Brzezinski and the myriad of US-funded NGOs that promote these “new global values.”


Photo: Libyan rebel leader Gibril Elqarfally stands before the Fortune 500-funded Brookings Institution openly declaring fealty to the globalist agenda of interdependency and subservience to a Wall Street-London international order.

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When asked by an audience member what Libya will look like in 2025, it turns out conveniently he was part of a study by Libyan professors and “Libyan practitioners” in 2007-2008 titled “Libya: Vision 2025.” Not surprisingly, this project was conducted with input from the IMF and involved Libya’s placement within the “global scene.” Elwarfally laments that Libya’s oil reserves are limited and that the solution is a transition to a service economy. He also claims Vision 2025′s conclusion included an education shift, turning Libya into “a lake” to develop the skills of Africans to serve the needs of the European Union.

Surely Africans are eager to once again be in the service of wealthy Europeans, who at one point owned tremendous swaths of their continent, some tycoons naming entire nations after themselves in the ultimate expression of imperial megalomania. Elwarfally, a man educated in Pittsburgh, and apparently a lifelong fan of globalization, stuns us with his frank comments and his disturbing vision for the future of not only Libya, but the role it will play in directing Africa’s efforts and resources toward American and European corporate-financier interests.

While Qaddafi's comments are dismissed out of hand, a recent message sent to his followersamidst fighting in Tripoli declared, "the traitors are paving the way for the occupation forces to be deployed in Tripoli." It seems no truer words have ever been spoken and the Libyan people, including the rebels, will have no one but themselves to blame if they allow such a way to be paved.

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Tripoli 22/08/2011: menaces de mort sur Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya et Thierry Meyssan

Thierry Meyssan est à Tripoli depuis le 23 juin dernier. Il y a d’abord dirigé une équipe d’enquêteurs du Réseau Voltaire. Il mène depuis deux mois un travail d’information journalistique sur le conflit. Ses positions se distinguent de celles de ses confrères : il décrit la rébellion comme étant minoritaire et permettant de justifier aux yeux de l’opinion publique internationale une classique opération militaire.
Quelles que soient les positions défendues par Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya et Thierry Meyssan, leur assassinat serait inacceptable. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya et Thierry Meyssan ne sont pas des combattants, mais des journalistes. Les personnes qui soutiennent cette guerre en pensant qu’elle est menée pour la démocratie et la liberté ne peuvent accepter qu’on assassine des journalistes.

Tripoli : le Réseau Voltaire s’inquiète des menaces de mort qui pèsent sur Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya et Thierry Meyssan
Réseau Voltaire, lundi 22 août 2011, 13h20 GMT –

Le Réseau Voltaire s’inquiète des menaces qui pèsent sur deux de ses collaborateurs à Tripoli. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, chercheur associé du Centre for Research on Globalization, et Thierry Meyssan, président-fondateur du Réseau Voltaire et de la conférence Axis for Peace, sont retranchés dans l’hôtel Rixos autour duquel d’importants combats ont lieu. L’ordre aurait été donné de les abattre.
Thierry Meyssan est à Tripoli depuis le 23 juin dernier. Il y a d’abord dirigé une équipe d’enquêteurs du Réseau Voltaire. Il mène depuis deux mois un travail d’information journalistique sur le conflit. Ses positions se distinguent de celles de ses confrères : il décrit la rébellion comme étant minoritaire et permettant de justifier aux yeux de l’opinion publique internationale une classique opération militaire.
Quelles que soient les positions défendues par Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya et Thierry Meyssan, leur assassinat serait inacceptable. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya et Thierry Meyssan ne sont pas des combattants, mais des journalistes. Les personnes qui soutiennent cette guerre en pensant qu’elle est menée pour la démocratie et la liberté ne peuvent accepter qu’on assassine des journalistes.
À l’heure actuelle, cinq États leur ont offert leur protection diplomatique. Mais les combats autour de l’hôtel les empêchent de sortir et plusieurs de ces ambassades ont été encerclées afin de rendre tout accès impossible.
Sachant les menaces qui pèsent sur eux, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya et Thierry Meyssan ne s’exposent pas à des « balles perdues ».
Le Réseau Voltaire appelle les citoyens des pays impliqués dans la guerre à faire pression sur leurs gouvernements afin d’assurer la sécurité de ces journalistes. Il demande à chacun de jouer son rôle de citoyen et de faire circuler cette information.

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Pour en savoir plus :
Articles de Thierry Meyssan :
http://www.voltairenet.org/_Thierry-Meyssan_?lang=fr
Articles à propos de Thierry Meyssan :
http://www.voltairenet.org/+-Meyssan-Thierry-+?lang=fr
Articles de Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya :
http://www.voltairenet.org/_Mahdi-Darius-Nazemroaya_?lang=fr

Articles du Réseau Voltaire sur la Libye :
http://www.voltairenet.org/+-Libye-+?lang=fr

http://www.alterinfo.net/Tripoli-le-Reseau-Voltaire-s-inquiete-des-menaces-de-mort-qui-pesent-sur-Mahdi-Darius-Nazemroaya-et-Thierry-Meyssan_a62681.html/