Clinton’s
naked gloating over the public lynching of America’s old adversary
revealed the depravity of the leading politicians of the imperialist
world, while underlining the length they will go to achieve their
imperial aims in the contemporary world.
It
was clear that NATO’s “Operation Unified Protector” was not about
implementing UN Resolution 1973, but as Thierry Meyssan, writing for Voltaire.org
said, was “to overthrow a political system and to kill the leader, even
if the assassination of a serving head of state is strictly prohibited
by US law and universally condemned”.
It
was also clear that NATO was not really enthusiastic about handing
Gaddafi over to the ICC, because it was unlikely to be able to sentence
him for crimes against humanity, anymore than the Criminal Tribunal for
Yugoslavia was able to prove its case against former Serbian leader,
Slobodan Milosevic, after two years of prosecution.
The
imperialist media parroted the same set of accusations against Gaddafi
over and over, giving an indication that there was really little
incriminating evidence which could hold in a court, against the man. One
of the most repeated accusations was that he stashed away billions of
dollars, but none of the imperialist countries: France, Britain or the
USA that bunched together with their Gulf clients like the feudal
Emirate of Qatar, was able to track the alleged fortune of the Gaddafi
clan.
Money
seized in the course of the criminal aggression against Libya, belonged
to the Libyan state, not Muammar Gaddafi. Interestingly, the only
international arrest warrant against Gaddafi before the NATO aggression
was issued by Interpol. He had been accused by Lebanon of having killed
Imam Moussa Sadr and a group of companions in 1978.
The
imperialist media was silent on that warrant, because the kidnapping of
Imam Sadr had been sponsored by the United States which wanted to get
rid of the Imam, to prevent the spread of the radicalism which Ayatollah
Khomeini had inspired in the Middle East.
The
imperialist media similarly conveniently ignored the role which Gaddafi
played in the political life of countries like France, where Gaddafi
illegally financed the presidential election campaigns of Nicholas
Sarkozy and Segolene Royal. We must not forget that deeply ingrained in
imperialist politics is immorality and gluttony.
The
same characters that sponsored the destruction of Libyan infrastructure
had been lining up to kiss Gaddafi’s hand in order to secure lucrative
oil deals a few years ago as well as outsourcing to his security forces,
the torture of Islamists.
And
as soon as the puppets of the NTC were knocked together, discussions
emerged in imperial centres about the privatization of Libyan assets.
They
want to parcel out oil concessions, take over the ports and banks as
well as other infrastructure. Libya will become a dependent protectorate
and a NATO bridgehead for all sorts of aggression against African and
Middle Eastern interests.
I
have never admired Gaddafi, who I think lived far more on the lunatic
fringe to be able to understand the fundamental necessities for the
revolutionary change that Africa required. He was too eclectic in his
actions and too befuddled in his thoughts. He supported national
liberation movements in Southern Africa alright, but was also the
sponsor of bandits like Charles Taylor and Foday Sankoh. He was forever
attempting to annex the Aozou Strip of Chad and in one of his most
unforgivable crimes ever, he stormed a plane in Tripoli, arrested the
leaders of the Sudan Communist Party and handed them over to another
lunatic like himself, Gafar Numeiri, for execution, in 1971! He was
forever blowing hot and cold and ran a most personalised regime which
alienated the people and did not allow the development of the Libyan
state; Gaddafi was the state! Nevertheless, despite all the imperialist
media’s attempt to delegitimize him totally, they could not erase the
most important of his achievements. He overthrew the puppet monarchy
which had been imposed by imperialism after the Second World War; he
removed imperialist troops from bases in Libya; nationalized Libyan oil
to serve the interests of Libyans as well as giving aid to impoverished
African countries; constructed the Great Man-Made River (the largest
irrigation project on earth). Thierry Meyssan said: “Libya’s development
aid was more important than all the G20 countries put together”. Well,
as Hilary Clinton vulgarly declared, they went, they saw and he died.
But imperialism will not have the last word in history!
Those
who accepted the NATO aggression against Libya and the public lynching
of Moammar Gaddafi must remember the way that French troops also
publicly defied Ivorian sovereignty a few months back, to invade the
Abidjan presidential palace, to capture the recalcitrant Laurent Gbagbo.
These are markers of the new imperialist attitude in Africa. The
Americans have been shopping for bases to locate AFRICOM, the forward
operational arm for Africa’s re-colonization. It has been unpopular in
the continent. But the new theory of linkage between AQIM, Al-Shabaab
and Boko Haram, is becoming the red herring to interfere even more
vigorously in African affairs.
New secret bases
They
are planning new secret bases to launch drones against targets in
Africa and already, they have been used against targets in Somalia, from
secret bases in Yemen and Djibouti. West Africa will be targeted from
secret bases in southern Algeria and with the imposition of a puppet
regime in Libya, that country will enter the loop.
In
the long run, there is also the underlining rivalry between the old
imperialist powers and the emergent nations, such as China, for Africa’s
natural resources. The Chinese method of offering infrastructural
development, non-interference plus mineral deals, became popular with
African ruling elites, to the chagrin of the Western countries, long
used to a monopoly of exploitation of African resources.
The
battle for the economic domination of the world of the 21 Century will
increasingly be fought on the African continent. Robert Mugabe echoed
this concern in the just concluded AU summit. Though one can hastily
discredit Mugabe's Concerns when you take his track record of governance
into consideration. but as the saying goes "There is a little sense in
every nonsense.
when
one sees the way our governments are quick in washing our dirty linens
just for financial aids, selling our national sovereignty for a few
million dollars. if the founding fathers ran to the west thee way our
government today do, maybe there wouldn't be anything left to govern
today. Maybe our leaders need Murtala Mohammed to come back from the
dead and make the "Africa has come of age" Speech.
Of
course, imperialism will exploit slogans about democracy and human
right, to try to claim the upper hand in that battle, because Africans
want democracy and a respect for our human rights.
But
the history of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism, show that in
the long run, imperialism cannot defend the values of Africa. God help us all.
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the president of senegal is busy spending 200000 dollars his country doesn't have on lobbying the americans to support his tenure elongation