After six months of fierce bombings and assault on Libya by NATO and their ally cronies, mainstream media are painting the conflict as a natural consequence of previous uprisings, today \u201cdisillusioned revolutions\u201d in North Africa.\u00a0 Under the Umbrella of humanitarian interventions, the media of wars fail to mention the decaying capital economic system and the insatiability of the empires as one of the major cause of the conflict.<\/p>\n
No empire can survive beside existing self-sustained and independent Nations as Libya in this case. The strategy is to dismantle free nations by war if necessary, for the empire to survive at their expenses. Through the imposition of different financial deregulations and then finance their own internal deficit. In this case, the axis France- United\u00a0Kingdom-\u00a0United States recruited and relied on few disenfranchised Qaddafi\u2019s opponents, elements from Al-Qaeda (some brought directly from Guantanamo) and among them militia of\u00a0 Prince Bandar Bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia. The NATO-led intervention in Libya is the outcome of a decade-long plan by the US and its allies to reshape the middle-East and Africa. That wish was revealed in 2002 by John Bolton, former UN ambassador for the US and completion of the project later was materialized in November last year with France super-headings the invasion.<\/p>\n
The shadow of civil war over Libya predicting the feared partition of the country: \u00a0Cyrenaica (Benghazi region) and Tripolitania (Tripoli region). Is the imperial plan to divide Libya in completion? It is not the first attempt to cutting and divide this nation; in 1949 after WWII at the Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany); western allies adopted the Bevin-Sforza Plan that proposed the following: first, to dissolve Eritrea\u00a0by sharing it\u00a0between Sudan\u00a0and Ethiopia\u00a0Imperial; and second, to put Somalia\u00a0under the administration\u00a0of its former\u00a0colonial power (Italy)\u00a0indefinitely and \u201cendelig\u201d <\/em>to divide Libyan\u00a0\u00a0into three parts, Cyrenaica,\u00a0Fezzan\u00a0and\u00a0Tripoli\u00a0against the wishes\u00a0of the majority of\u00a0Libyans. The territories placed under a shared jurisdiction of Italy, France, and Britain. John Dulles by then U.S. secretary of state said: The annexation of\u00a0Eritrea\u00a0to Ethiopia\u00a0is necessary\u00a0to protect\u00a0U.S. interests in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n On\u00a0May 17, 1949; after fearless protest by Senator Emile St-lot, Haitian UN ambassador voted NO to the approval of the resolution, against the advice of the\u00a0Haitian President Estime.\u00a0His vote\u00a0blocked\u00a0the\u00a0implementation of the Bevin-Sforza Plan\u00a0and prevented the partition\u00a0of Libya.<\/p>\n The consequences of the Libyan imposed war under the pretext of the democratization and humanitarianism lays the foundation of the physical yet intangible re-colonization of Africa. Two specific aims are behind the conflict: the recovery of western economies by predation of Africa\u2019s wealth in order to regain somehow lost political legitimacy to their public opinions and the control of scarce natural resources to face the rise of emerging powers such as China and Brazil<\/p>\n Predatory Wars for economic recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n The 2008\u2019s financial and economic crisis affected severely the US and Europe. To avoid the system financial meltdown and a 1929 economic crisis like, these governments funded private banks through the use of public funds, by then defrauding their own people. While rescuing the banks and companies from bankruptcy; their internal debt soared through the transfer of private debt into public debt.<\/p>\n Alone the United States\u00a0has around\u00a014 Trillion\u00a0dollars in debt; France, Britain\u00a0and Italy\u00a0each have\u00a0about 2,000\u00a0billion Dollars\u00a0public debts\u00a0while the\u00a046\u00a0sub-Saharan African countries\u00a0have\u00a0in total less than\u00a0$ 400 billion\u00a0of\u00a0public debt.<\/p>\n To finance their public spending; these governments are resorting to borrowing or taxation. Faced with such dramatic situation, the axis US-Britain-France favored scenario is economic recovery by war. \u00a0History shows us how the economical crisis in 1929, plunged Europe into deep depression and the way the crisis was drawn out through the Second World War.<\/p>\n Heavily indebted beside it gluttony appetite; the military-economical global complex only war seems to be the remedy for its recovery. The Armies are marching and flying in search of wealth to maintain an unsustainable capital system. The scrambles for Africa, in this case Libya are easy prey.<\/p>\n The wars fuelled in Africa are neo-mercantilist conquests since they are inspired only for the gain of wealth by any means. Through structures like AFRICOM (US Africa Command) which probably will open a base in Benghazi; the race for raw and strategic material is on.\u00a0 Africa has been a breeding ground for decades. The D.R.Congo continues to pay the price. Huge\u00a0corporations have funded proxy-wars with the only aim of looting the mineral wealth of this former Belgian colony. Despite UN reports and resolutions, no tangible actions have been taken against those who fuelled the armed conflict in the first place; inter alia the multinational corporations. The history seems to repeat itself; Accumulation by dispossession is a common trend for the capital economy. Since the slave trade until the colonization and the \u201cindependences\u201d; the superpowers have plundered the continent respectively.<\/p>\n However, recent history teaches us that plundering others people resources is not the only way for development. Countries like China, India, Germany and Brazil growth economically without necessarily colonies or waging war against other nations possessing natural resources.\u00a0It is through Fair-trade and acquisition of science, not war, these nations have been enriched. To Create\u00a0false\u00a0wars\u00a0in Africa and the world in\u00a0the hope to\u00a0oxygenate their their\u00a0economical\u00a0apnea will only worsen the decline of the capitalist empire\u00a0which took off\u00a0in 1884 during the famous\u00a0Berlin Conference.<\/p>\n Selvf\u00f8lgelig<\/em> Libya\u00a0under\u00a0Gaddafi\u00a0is far from\u00a0perfect, \u00a0But we need to ask is\u00a0 France, Britain, the United States, Italy,\u00a0Norway, Denmark, \u00a0Poland\u00a0whose legitimacy\u00a0to bomb\u00a0the Libyans women and children\u00a0is based on\u00a0the simple allegation that they are \u00a0self-proclaimed\u00a0“democratic countries”\u00a0are they\u00a0truly democratic? If so, are they\u00a0more democratic than\u00a0Gaddafi’s Libya? Questions to debate on<\/p>\n On\u00a0March 19, 2003,\u00a0President George\u00a0W .Bush\u00a0bombed\u00a0on the heads of Iraq near to the Stone Age with the\u00a0pretext of\u00a0exporting democracy.\u00a0Eight years later, March 2011, French President Sarkozy launches his bombs on Libya with the same reason. US President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, justifying the use of is cruise missiles said it was to drive the dictator from power and bring democracy. Is the Geneva Convention limited only to its Canton? Is the ICC (International Criminal Court) only for Africa?\u00a0 And again from slavery trade to\u00a0its abolition and from the colonialism\u00a0to the \u201cindependence\u201d, There is never been an equivalent of Nuremberg Tribunal or even a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.\u00a0 That is it mean as today, is the liquidation\u00a0of humanity by the west a great\u00a0business?\u00a0 Is one part of humanity less humans?<\/p>\n “Democracy building” in Libya, we are told,\u00a0requires the extensive bombing\u00a0of an entire country, under NATO\u2019s\u201dResponsibility to Protect” (R2P). To say\u00a0we kill\u00a0the Libyans\u00a0for their own good\u00a0is a deceit.<\/p>\n ______________________________<\/p>\n Rais Neza Boneza, is a TRANSCEND convener for Africa and a free-lance writer\/researcher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Democracy building” in Libya, we are told, requires the extensive bombing of an entire country, under NATO\u2019s\u201dResponsibility to Protect” (R2P). 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