After six months of fierce bombings on Libya by NATO and their TNC cronies; the mainstream media is painting the conflict as a natural consequence of the previous disillusioned revolution in North Africa.\u00a0 Under the Umbrella of humanitarian interventions, the media of wars have failed to mention the decaying capital economic system as one of the consequences of the conflict.<\/p>\n
No empire can survive besides existing self-sustained and independent nations such us Libya. \u00a0The strategy has been to dismantle free nations by war if necessary, or through the imposition of different financial deregulations to finance the empires\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
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. John Bolton, former US ambassador to the UN, revealed that wish in 2002; the completion of the project was materialized in November last year with France super-heading the invasion.<\/p>\n
The shadow of civil war over Libya predicts the feared partition of the country: \u00a0Cyrenaica (Benghazi region) and Tripolitania (Tripoli region). \u00a0It is not the first attempt to cut and divide this nation. In 1949, after WWII, at Potsdam (Brandenburg, Germany) western allies adopted the Bevin-Sforza Plan, which proposed the following:<\/p>\n
To dissolve Eritrea\u00a0by sharing it\u00a0between Sudan\u00a0and Ethiopia\u00a0Imperial, to put Somalia\u00a0under the administration\u00a0of its former\u00a0colonial power (Italy)\u00a0indefinitely, and \u201cendelig\u201d <\/em>to divide Libya\u00a0\u00a0into three parts:<\/p>\n Cyrenaica,\u00a0Fezzan\u00a0and\u00a0Tripoli\u00a0against the wishes\u00a0of the majority of\u00a0Libyans, with the territories placed under a shared jurisdiction of Italy, France, and Britain. John Dulles, then U.S. Secretary of State, said: \u201cThe annexation of\u00a0Eritrea\u00a0to Ethiopia\u00a0is necessary\u00a0to protect\u00a0U.S. interests in the Red Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n On\u00a0May 17 1949, after fearless protests by Haitian UN ambassador Senator Emile St-lot \u00a0voted \u201cno\u201d to the approval of the resolution, against the advice of the then\u00a0Haitian President Estime.\u00a0His vote\u00a0blocked\u00a0the\u00a0implementation of the Bevin-Sforza Plan\u00a0and prevented the partition\u00a0of Libya. The consequences of the Libyan war under the pretext of democratization and humanitarianism lay the foundation for a concrete yet intangible re-colonization of Africa.<\/p>\n Two other specific aims are behind the conflict: The recovery of the west economies by the predation of Africa\u2019s wealth in order to regain 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 financial and economic crisis affected severely the US and Europe. To avoid the system\u2019s financial meltdown and an economic crisis like in 1929, these governments funded private banks with public funds defrauding their own populations. By rescuing banks and corporations from bankruptcy, their internal debts soared with the transfer of private debts to the public debts.<\/p>\n Alone, the United States\u00a0has around\u00a014 trillion\u00a0dollars in debt. France, Britain\u00a0and Italy\u00a0each have\u00a0about 2 trillion dollars in\u00a0public debts,\u00a0while the\u00a046\u00a0sub-Saharan African countries\u00a0have\u00a0in total less than\u00a0$ 400 billion in\u00a0public debts. These governments in crisis resort to borrowing or to taxation to finance their public spending. Faced with such dramatic situation, the favored scenario for the axis US-Britain-France is economic recovery by war. \u00a0History shows us how the economic crisis of 1929 plunged Europe in a deep recession and the way the crisis was drawn out through the Second World War.<\/p>\n War seems to be the remedy for the recovery of the gluttony appetite of the heavily indebted military-economic global complex. 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. The wars in Africa are neo-mercantilist conquests as their aim is the gain of wealth by any means.<\/p>\n With such an organization as AFRICOM (US Africa Command), which probably will open a base in Benghazi, the race for raw and strategic materials is on.\u00a0 Africa has been a breeding ground for decades for predatory wars. 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 capitalist economy.<\/p>\n However, recent history teaches us that plundering other people\u2019s resources is not the only way for development. Countries like China, India, Germany and Brazil grow economically without depending on colonies or waging war against other nations that possess natural resources.\u00a0But through fair trade and acquisition of science, not war, that these nations prosper. To create\u00a0false\u00a0wars\u00a0in Africa and the world in\u00a0the hope to\u00a0oxygenate their economic\u00a0apnea will only worsen the decline of the capitalist empire\u00a0that took off\u00a0in 1884 during the famous\u00a0Berlin Conference.<\/p>\n Libya\u00a0under\u00a0Gaddafi\u00a0was far from\u00a0perfect, but we need to question the legitimacy to bomb Libyan children by France, Britain, the United States, Italy,\u00a0Norway, Denmark and Poland.<\/p>\n On\u00a0March 19, 2003\u00a0President George\u00a0W .Bush\u00a0bombed\u00a0Iraq almost to the Stone Age under the\u00a0pretext of\u00a0exporting democracy.\u00a0Eight years later, March 2011, French President Sarkozy launches his missiles against Libya under the same pretext. US President Obama, 2009 Nobel Peace laureate, justifying the use of cruise missiles, said it was to drive the Libyan dictator from power and bring democracy again. Is the Geneva Convention limited only to its Canton? Is the ICC (International Criminal Court) only for Africa?\u00a0 Again, from the slave trade to\u00a0its abolition, and from colonialism\u00a0to \u201cindependence;\u201d an equivalent of Nuremberg Tribunal or even a Truth and Reconciliation Commission never been organized.\u00a0 Is the liquidation\u00a0of humanity by the west a great\u00a0business?\u00a0 Is one part of humanity less human?<\/p>\n “Democracy building” in Libya, we are told,\u00a0requires extensive bombing\u00a0of an entire country, under NATO\u2019s Responsibility to Protect” (R2P). To say that\u00a0we kill Libyans\u00a0for their own good\u00a0is deceitful.<\/p>\n ______________________________<\/p>\n Rais Neza Boneza, is a free-lance writer\/researcher and the TRANSCEND Convener for Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After six months of fierce bombings on Libya by NATO and their TNC cronies; the mainstream media is painting the conflict as a natural consequence of the previous disillusioned revolution in North Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}