Killing in the Name of Global Dominance, Oil, and Money
We believe what they tell us, and repression keeps us from questioning it.
Redistributing and investing wealth from natural resources into public services provided universal health care, education, advanced irrigation, homes, and the highest standard of living on the continent. The policies significantly increased gender equality, life expectancy, and literacy rates, facilitating an economically and politically stable society.
Not everyone agreed with the government’s contentious structure, and the nation had imperfections, but overall, citizens supported the system of governance. Yet, within four days, a small peaceful demonstration escalated to raping, beheading, torturing, and massacring, and the country’s forty years of peace unraveled into a brutal warzone within a month.
The violence bewildered the nation, but when a beheading video circulated, the attackers’ identities and objectives became apparent; foreign terrorists intended to overthrow the government and install a new regime. The country’s leader pleaded for the savagery to stop and offered to negotiate, but the ruthless attacks continued.
When calls to a foreign diplomat asking for help resulted in accusing the government of killing civilians and insisting the leader step down, the nation’s military intervened. The army gained control of the insurgency and informed the media the fighting would end within 48 hours. However, international states had already cut ties and recognized the extremists as legitimate representatives.
“We are not fighting them, they are attacking us. I want to tell you the truth.”
As the nation celebrated two days later, Tomahawks tore through the sky, reigniting the conflict. With the assistance of foreign militaries’ missile strikes, weapon supplies, and finance, the militia regained ground. The violent revolt continued for seven months, and every day 150 airstrikes struck homes, schools, hospitals, offices, and ministry buildings, killing civilians and destroying infrastructure.
The brutal dictator hoarded wealth, banished foreign military bases, nationalized oil production, and subjected the nation to social theories and repression. The “madman” declared the people ran the country and closed schools, offices, airlines, and shops, requiring everyone but himself to attend committees once or twice a year, yet citizens feared speaking up.
After decades of living under a dictatorship, the people revolted, and the military opened fire on the unarmed crowd, killing up to 1000. The dictator threatened to hunt down everyone involved, but the rebel forces continued fighting. The uprising quickly transitioned to a civil war, with foreign powers siding with the resistance, supplying the freedom fighters with military advisors, airstrikes, and non-lethal equipment.
“The task that I assigned our forces [is] to protect the people from immediate danger and to establish a no-fly zone. Broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.”
The West spun the narrative and dismissed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s claims as propaganda while President Obama defended Libyans’ right to “determine their own destiny.” The NATO alliance wanted to control Libya’s wealth and the public’s support for the war.
On February 25, 2011, Gaddafi’s first phone call to Tony Blair warned the former prime minister al-Qaida wanted to control the Mediterranean, and in a second call, stated;
“We are not fighting them, they are attacking us. I want to tell you the truth. It is not a difficult situation at all. The story is simply this: an organization has laid down sleeping cells in north Africa. Called the al-Qaida organization in north Africa … The sleeping cells in Libya are similar to dormant cells in America before 9/11.”
Gaddafi wasn’t lying. Renowned terrorists from Afghanistan and Iraq massacred Libyans and initiated a violent coup. Whether Gaddafi knew of the West’s involvement on February 25, he’d soon find out the CIA and MI-6 had ties with the terrorists and met with rivals before the uprising to assess their military capabilities.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton spearheaded the mission, US Ambassador Susan Rice reiterated disinformation, and Al Jeezera, the BBC, and the Guardian reported Gaddafi gave Viagra to troops to encourage rape. Human rights organizations found no evidence to support the Viagra accusation, yet International Criminal Court investigator Luis Moreno-Ocampo backed the claim.
The press reports stating Gaddafi opened fire on protesters by air justified Britain, France, and the US-NATO no-fly zone to protect civilians. Yet, when the Pentagon questioned the US Secretary of Defence, Gates replied, “We’ve seen the press reports, but we have no confirmation of that.” While Admiral Mullen affirmed, “That’s correct. We’ve seen no confirmation whatsoever.” NATO intervened two weeks after Gates and Mullen’s testimony.
Airstrikes directly killed thousands and decimated infrastructure, resulting in political and economic collapse, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, intra-militia and tribal warfare, and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. The 2016 UK Parliament investigation also determined that “the threat to civilians was overstated, the rebels included a significant Islamist element, and the limited intervention to protect had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change.”
Western politicians insisted the objective was to save lives, but an estimated 70% of Libyans supported Gaddafi and the social services that provided an income as high as Europeans. Yet, NATO intentionally targeted Libya’s irrigation system, causing water shortages for millions of civilians, and France delivered weapons to terrorists — Responsibility to Protect doesn’t entail destroying the nation and sustaining violence.
Libya is a living nightmare because regime change was the objective, and our governments knowingly pursued it. Obama, Clinton, Sarkozy, and Cameron murdered countless people and lied to the public for unfathomable motives, yet the bloody partnership is much deeper than a few politicians. They fulfill the best interests of wealthy constituents (oligarchs), and maintaining Western capitalist hegemony has been the political and economic intention for a century.
In 2015, a judge ordered the State Department to release emails on Hilary Clinton’s private server, and the disturbing contents revealed oil, money, and dominance over Africa motivated regime change. Maintaining by deterring rising powers, owning the world’s energy, and profiting is the global capitalist plan, and there’s nothing democratic about it.
Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver … This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).
According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy’s plans are driven by the following issues:
a. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production
b. French influence in North Africa
c. Improve his internal political situation in France
d. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world
e. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa
NATO offensively protects imperialism, and nothing has changed since 2011. We hear the stories our imperialist nations want us to hear, and our denial or ignorance supports the mass murders of millions. Understandably, we trust the people we elect to represent us, and we aren’t evil, but our governments work for their clients, and no one’s life matters.
Undoubtedly, there were rivals and Libyans who detested Gaddafi, but the West had no grounds to take sides and launch missiles into the country’s affairs. The news outlets intentionally misled the Western public or failed to validate sources, and anyone refuting the fabricated stories endured “dictator-supporting-apologist” bullying. We want to be on the right side of history, yet in no future is enforcing capitalist authoritarianism in every nation ethical, and that’s what we’ve done since WWII.
“We came, we saw, he died” — Hilary Clinton’s response in 2011 when NATO-backed forces brutally murdered a 69-year-old Gaddafi.