kasama-rl
1st March 2011, 18:30
by Mike Ely (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/no-foreign-intervention.jpg) (first appeared on Kasama (http://kasamaproject.org/2011/03/01/libya-small-blood-sucker-weakens-global-blood-suckers-gather/#more-28385))
Over the last days there have been building threats of intervention by the U.S. and European powers in the affairs and events of Northern Africa. It is being announced (as usual) in the name of helping democracy — but, in fact, the deployment of weapons and planes would involve an inevitable power-grab, an attempt to influence (read: control) who emerges with power in Libya, and an attempt to justify the right of imperialist power to continuous and future intervention in the Middle East and Africa.
We should not assume that the U.S. plans some full invasion. They are currently tied up in two losing wars already — Gates just quipped that those who advocate U.S. land wars “should have their heads examined.”
The U.S. is likely to threaten “power projection” — by air, by arms supply, perhaps by dropping an electronic curtain over Libya. It will certainly support actions by its partners-in-crime, like Britain or France (or even various African puppet forces they have cultivated and trained).
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/iraqi-faces-after-us-intervention.jpg?w=273&h=400 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/iraqi-faces-after-us-intervention.jpg)
Faces of Iraqi children in the aftermath of U.S. attacks.
Let us not forget what the world has learned.
One of the most ugly features of American political life is the casual chit-chat about “the best use of our power” — where both liberal and conservative pundits, politicians, talkshow commentators (Rachel Maddow!) and even assholes drinking coffee in your neighborhood greasy spoon debate their ugly views on how the U.S. “should” pound distant people — running down Pentagon “options” like they are participants in some global war room. The right of imperialism is assumed. The sense of superiority is overwhelming. You can’t help imagining the blood dripping off their lips and down their chins.
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/no-foreign-intervention.jpg?w=350&h=233 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/no-foreign-intervention.jpg)
"No foreign intervention - Libyan people can manage it alone."
Just as we should not be confused by the U.S. bullshit about “helping democracy” so we should not be confused by their claims of restrained and cost-free bullying.
Even a “no fly zone” is an outrage. Just the movement of their navy toward Libya is an aggressive provocation. Every threat they now make is a precedent for more and coming interventions around the world.
We urge everyone to help expose and oppose these imperialist moves — especially the actions of the United States government.
For those unclear on the sinister nature of these moves — we urge you too look closely at the lives and faces of people in Afghanistan and Iraq, where U.S. invasion has led to massive suffering, permanent counter-insurgency, deepened ethnic fragmentation and the rise of utterly corrupt political forces. Worst of all: Where the gun goes, power follows. The intrusion of western military power will never produce liberated people — it will be an attempt to shape turmoil into new regimes of running dogs.
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/uss-enterprise-a-pirate-ship.jpg?w=350 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/uss-enterprise-a-pirate-ship.jpg)
U.S. Enterprise moving toward Libya
(after so-called pirate hunting off Somalia).
Who are the real pirates haunting the seas?
Like a kaleidoscope, the U.S. justifications for “power extension” vary. One minute, under Bush, it is “war on terror” on a string of Muslim countries and with the next administration it now becomes “protecting” Arab people and enabling their “democracy.” But the forms of democracy the U.S. would promote and the political forces it would anoint will never serve the people (as a century of U.S. imperialism has shown, over and over and over.)
In Egypt, the U.S. has long and carefully financed a reactionary army that it could urge to take power (away from the people in the streets, in the name of the people in the streets, Mubarak without Mubarak). In Libya, it is seeking to expand U.S. power by intervening at a pivotal movement — to portray itself as the guardian of peoples, not their exploiter. A few planes to prevent Libyan government advances, a few arms to bolster the rebel forces of eastern Libya, an approaching nuclear navy to convince Gaddafi to flee (or his inner circle to kill him). In the hopes, that the U.S. will emerge (after months of revolt against its brutal allies) with the false sheen of liberator.
As if people have no eyes to see, no minds to think, no mouths to speak, and no memories at all — and as if they don’t have their own hands to win victory.
Libya is a major oil producer — its pipelines run to the sea, and from there to Italy and Europe. U.S. and British threats have nothing to do with any sympathy or self-determination for Arab people (witness their relentless support for the brutal Mubarak regime and others in the region!) It is about exerting U.S. power to consolidate U.S. domination. It is not about saving Libyan lives in an emerging civil war, but exploiting Libyans for the rest of their lives.
We urge you to post links here (http://kasamaproject.org)to reports of U.S. intervention, and (especially) plans being made to oppose and expose these actions.
U.S. Get Out of the Middle East! Navies Out! Troops Out!
Over the last days there have been building threats of intervention by the U.S. and European powers in the affairs and events of Northern Africa. It is being announced (as usual) in the name of helping democracy — but, in fact, the deployment of weapons and planes would involve an inevitable power-grab, an attempt to influence (read: control) who emerges with power in Libya, and an attempt to justify the right of imperialist power to continuous and future intervention in the Middle East and Africa.
We should not assume that the U.S. plans some full invasion. They are currently tied up in two losing wars already — Gates just quipped that those who advocate U.S. land wars “should have their heads examined.”
The U.S. is likely to threaten “power projection” — by air, by arms supply, perhaps by dropping an electronic curtain over Libya. It will certainly support actions by its partners-in-crime, like Britain or France (or even various African puppet forces they have cultivated and trained).
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/iraqi-faces-after-us-intervention.jpg?w=273&h=400 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/iraqi-faces-after-us-intervention.jpg)
Faces of Iraqi children in the aftermath of U.S. attacks.
Let us not forget what the world has learned.
One of the most ugly features of American political life is the casual chit-chat about “the best use of our power” — where both liberal and conservative pundits, politicians, talkshow commentators (Rachel Maddow!) and even assholes drinking coffee in your neighborhood greasy spoon debate their ugly views on how the U.S. “should” pound distant people — running down Pentagon “options” like they are participants in some global war room. The right of imperialism is assumed. The sense of superiority is overwhelming. You can’t help imagining the blood dripping off their lips and down their chins.
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/no-foreign-intervention.jpg?w=350&h=233 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/no-foreign-intervention.jpg)
"No foreign intervention - Libyan people can manage it alone."
Just as we should not be confused by the U.S. bullshit about “helping democracy” so we should not be confused by their claims of restrained and cost-free bullying.
Even a “no fly zone” is an outrage. Just the movement of their navy toward Libya is an aggressive provocation. Every threat they now make is a precedent for more and coming interventions around the world.
We urge everyone to help expose and oppose these imperialist moves — especially the actions of the United States government.
For those unclear on the sinister nature of these moves — we urge you too look closely at the lives and faces of people in Afghanistan and Iraq, where U.S. invasion has led to massive suffering, permanent counter-insurgency, deepened ethnic fragmentation and the rise of utterly corrupt political forces. Worst of all: Where the gun goes, power follows. The intrusion of western military power will never produce liberated people — it will be an attempt to shape turmoil into new regimes of running dogs.
http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/uss-enterprise-a-pirate-ship.jpg?w=350 (http://mikeely.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/uss-enterprise-a-pirate-ship.jpg)
U.S. Enterprise moving toward Libya
(after so-called pirate hunting off Somalia).
Who are the real pirates haunting the seas?
Like a kaleidoscope, the U.S. justifications for “power extension” vary. One minute, under Bush, it is “war on terror” on a string of Muslim countries and with the next administration it now becomes “protecting” Arab people and enabling their “democracy.” But the forms of democracy the U.S. would promote and the political forces it would anoint will never serve the people (as a century of U.S. imperialism has shown, over and over and over.)
In Egypt, the U.S. has long and carefully financed a reactionary army that it could urge to take power (away from the people in the streets, in the name of the people in the streets, Mubarak without Mubarak). In Libya, it is seeking to expand U.S. power by intervening at a pivotal movement — to portray itself as the guardian of peoples, not their exploiter. A few planes to prevent Libyan government advances, a few arms to bolster the rebel forces of eastern Libya, an approaching nuclear navy to convince Gaddafi to flee (or his inner circle to kill him). In the hopes, that the U.S. will emerge (after months of revolt against its brutal allies) with the false sheen of liberator.
As if people have no eyes to see, no minds to think, no mouths to speak, and no memories at all — and as if they don’t have their own hands to win victory.
Libya is a major oil producer — its pipelines run to the sea, and from there to Italy and Europe. U.S. and British threats have nothing to do with any sympathy or self-determination for Arab people (witness their relentless support for the brutal Mubarak regime and others in the region!) It is about exerting U.S. power to consolidate U.S. domination. It is not about saving Libyan lives in an emerging civil war, but exploiting Libyans for the rest of their lives.
We urge you to post links here (http://kasamaproject.org)to reports of U.S. intervention, and (especially) plans being made to oppose and expose these actions.
U.S. Get Out of the Middle East! Navies Out! Troops Out!