Status Updates From Arab Spring, Libyan Winter

i’m a huge vijay prashad fan i’m excited to get into this with him, one of my most trusted public intellectuals

only prashad could write a book about history and not cite any sources

"… NATO countries are being shipped oil (also to gas and oil rich Qatar) free of charge," Lamb reports, "under a payback arrangement with NATO for its regime change services.” - Franklin Lamb, Law Professor at Harvard University

Democracy, as conceived by western capitalists, is the exclusive domain of European races, insofar as it is a democracy for the wealthy few.

“…A. J. Balfour [said]: You cannot transfer formulas more or less applicable to the populations of Europe to different races.", the technocrats who demonstrate their fealty to the international bond markets and the IMF will control the Central Bank and the Oil Company.”

"The 'humanitarian' intervention introduced to save lives believed to be threatened was in fact a political intervention introduced to
bring about regime change."
-Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Rela-tions, "Libya Needs Boots on the Ground,"
Financial Times, August 22, 2011.

“If NATO or the rebels had killed anyone it was because Qaddafi had used them as human shields.”

Interesting how the rhetoric the west uses to defend its humanitarian interventions is almost exactly the same as the rhetoric it uses now on the Palestinian genocide.