Omar’s Reviews > Arab Spring, Libyan Winter > Status Update

"… 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.”

“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.

“Neither al-Fattah You-nis nor el-Hariri could be counted upon to be proper NATO allies. They had not been made "interoperatable." For that, the CIA had to insert Hifter back into the saddle.”

Interoperatable=pliant to the requirements of western capital

“…the Atlantic powers, whose interest in Libya is governed by oil and by power…the Libyan rebellion gave the Atlantic powers, Qatar and Saudi Arabia an opportunity to attempt to seize control over an escalating dynamic that had spread across the Middle East and North Africa, which had already been called the Arab Spring. It threatened the US pillars of stability and the foundation of Saudi rule.”

"Libyan want to eat McDonald's hamburgers, not uranium."

“In Egypt, these "reforms" were part of the phase of infitah, the openness of Egyptian society to the Atlantic world's economic needs.” The needs of the global north before all else; the mantra of neoliberalism.

“Religion has an unshakable eschatology, which a post-utopian secular politics lacks.“ The power of religion cannot be underestimated. But where does nationalism fit?