Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics by James Petras http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62644.shtml

One of the basic flaws of the arguments of critics of Euro-US wars is their resort to clichés, generalizations and arguments without any factual basis. The most common line on the US-Euro war on Libya is that it’s “all about oil” – the seizure of oil wells.On the other hand Euro –U.S, government spokespeople have defended the war by claiming it is about “saving civilian lives facing genocide”, an act of “humanitarian intervention”.Following the lead of their imperial powers, most of what passes for the Left in the US and Europe, ranging from social democrats, Marxists, Trotskyists and other assorted progressives claim to see and support a revolutionary mass uprising and not a few call for active intervention by the imperial powers, or the same thing, the UN, to presumably help the “social revolution” defeat the Gaddafi dictatorship.

These claims and variations of these arguments are totally without substance and belie the true nature of US-UK-French imperial power, based on rising militarism as evidenced in all the ongoing wars over the past decade (Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc.). What is revealing in the context of militarist intervention in Libya is that all the major countries which refused to engage in the War are motivated by a different type of global expansion: economic and market forces. China, India, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Germany, the most dynamic capitalist countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East are, in part, all opposed the self-styled “allied” military response because they see (with solid reasons) no threat to their security, an open door for access to oil, a favorable investment climate and no signs of any progressive democratic outcome among the disparate elites competing for power and Western favor among the media labeled “rebels”.

[I AGREE WITH PETRAS ON SOME THINGS WICH IS.ITS NOT ALL ECONOMIC BUT ITS A MILITARY RESHUFFLING PAVING WAY FOR IMPERIAL BASES,HOWEVER,HIS OPINIONS ARE WEAK,AND HIS SOURCES,ARE EVEN WEAKER.THE FROZEN ASSETS AND SEIZED ASSETS,ARE ECONOMIC FACTORS,AS FAR AS OIL DEVELOPMENT,THESE WILL BE SOLD THRU INTERMEDIARIES IN GULF STATES LIKE QATAR WICH ARE CLIENT REGIMES OF WEST AND THEREFORE TOOLS OF INTERNATIONAL OIL MARKET SPECULATORS..ALSO HE MADE SOME COMPARISONS BETWEEN IRAQ AND HOW THOSE PLANS DIDNT BENEFIT THEM BECAUSE OIL DEVELOPMENT WERE FROZEN FOR OVER 10 YEARS,THIS IS TRUE,BUT HE FORGETS,THAT LIBYA SITS IN A A PERFECT TRANSIT CORRIDOR FOR WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF DRUGS KNOWN AS THE DRUG TRIANGLE AND IT WILL BE A GREAT CHANNEL FOR TRANSSHPMENTS OF COCAINE VIA COLOMBIA VIA LIBYA VIA MALTA,ITALY,SPAIN,FRANCE ETC...

ALSO HE MENTIONS THAT QADDAFI ALLOWED FOREIGN EXPLORATION OF ITS OIL,THIS IS ALSO TRUE,HOWEVER,ITS WELL ESTABLISHED THAT QADDAFIS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS CREATED HUGE BUDGET DEFICITS,AND IN ORDER TO REDUCE THESE HE SOUGHT TO ALIVIATE IT BY GRANTING COCESSIONS TO CERTAIN MULTINATIONALS,SAME CAN BE APPLIED TO VENEZUELA,AND BOLIVIA ETC..WICH PETRAS IS ALSO CRITICAL OF,BUT ONE MUST EMPHASIZE THESE ARE THE INHERENT CONTRADICTIONS FACING NATIONS WICH ATTEMPT TO MODERNIZE AND DEVELOP THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE.I DO HATE QADDAFI HOWEVER FOR ALINING WITH THE FAKE WAR ON TERROR,SETTING UP TORTURE FACILITY CENTERS TO APPEASE WEST,AND ITS DESPICABLE PARTNERSHIP ON EUROPES NEOCONOPTICON PROJECT EXTENSION FRONTEX..

SO OVERALL I AGREE WTH PETRAS ON MUCH,BUT DISAGREE ON SOME THINGS AS WELL..HE SHOULD ALSO READ THIS PIECE>Washington’s precious catch: the oil and the bank accounts http://www.voltairenet.org/article169141.html THE IMPERIAL WOLVES COULD CARE LESS IF THEIR COUNTRIES ECONOMIES IMPLODE IN REGARDS TO THEIR GEOPOLITICAL AIMS,THEY WORK TOWARDS THAT GOAL,IN CASE HE HAS MISSED THE AGENDA TO BANKRUPT NATIONS AT EXPENSE OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE WICH IS GLOBALIST IN NATURE,THEY HAVE NO ALLIGIANCE TO THOSE NATIONS THEY OPERATE OUT ...(ISRAEL EXCEPTION PERHAPS)

[TO BACK MY CASE>Canada and Libya By Yves Engler http://mostlywater.org/canada_and_libya Would Stephen Harper attack Libya simply to justify spending tens of billions of dollars on F-35 fighter jets? Perhaps. But, add on doing it for major Canadian investors, reinforcing his “principled” foreign policy rhetoric and reasserting Western control over a region in flux and you pretty much have the range of reasons why a half dozen CF-18s, four other military aircraft and a 240 personnel naval frigate are currently engaged in combat 10,000 km away from Canadian soil.

--------------- Libya strikes showcase French warplane http://euobserver.com/9/32083 But looking in detail at French operations in Libya, military analysts have also said that France is using the war to promote its badly-selling €60-million-per-unit Rafale fighter."The French intervention is, among other things, aimed at putting the Rafale under the spotlight,"

FORMER US CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA McKINNEY ON LIBYA http://mathaba.net/news/?x=626287

[HAS PETRAS FORGOT THAT NATION REBUILDING IS A GIGANTIC RACKET WICH BENEFITS CORPORATIONS?HAS PETRAS FORGOT THE RACKET OF HUGE MILITARY EXPENDITURES WICH BENEFIT MILITARY WEAPONS INDUSTRY?SERIOUSLY IM A BIT DISSAPOINTED IN MR PETRAS,WHO I RESPECT SO MUCH..