On the Counter-Revolutionary Front in Libya http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m76457&hd=&size=1&l=e

 U.S. analysts who instinctively oppose U.S. imperialism often are entrapped by the demonization stage and then at best argue that U.S. intervention is 'wrong’ not because it wouldn’t be great to oust the target government, but simply because our leaders are being hypocritical or inconsistent. The "why aren’t we also invading Bahrain and Yemen?" pseudo-oppositional argument. (A recent example: Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis in yesterday’s Counterpunch; another example: John Chuckman a few days earlier in the same publication.) But when an argument can be answered with "What, are you nuts?" is it truly opposition to the latest U.S. imperialist brutality?

No, not at all..What’s refreshing is to read analysis that takes for granted that the demonization and 'humanitarian intervention’ fog cover up the usual economic imperialism, and then argue directly against that. More often than Americans, British authors like Alex Cockburn (quoted above) take this stance against U.S.-led intervention. (Is it to avoid sounding completely naive, stupid and American that some are 'allowed’ in mainstream Britain to use the common sense soft Marxist 'follow the money’ approach?)

But progressive third world authors, for example Vijay Prashad and Soumaya Ghannoushi, whose native countries continue today to experience the abuse of neo-colonialism, tend to write the straightest takes on what’s really going down in nations most Americans really don’t give a rat’s ass about.Ghannoushi wrote brilliantly in the Guardian yesterday on the counter-revolution operated by the West, as applied to Libya. Read the entire thing, of course, but here is how it begins:After unscripted Arab drama, the west sneaks back on set.Arab dictators were not the only ones to have been taken aback by the scale and speed of events in the region. Their allies were also caught off guard. 

[THE US , WAS NOT CAUGHT OFF GUARD IN THE LEAST...THE EVIDENCE SHWS THAT CERTAIN GROUPS WERE ALREADY BEING TRAINED,FOR YEARS,AND WERE BEING GIVEN IN SOME CASES REVOLUTIONARY MANUALS TO FOLLOW SUCH AS IN EGYPT...THEY ALREADY HAD THEIR MN IN PLACE,IN SAME WAY WHEN THEY WANTED TO REMOVE SADAM,THEY WERE ALREADY BRIBING SADAMS MILITARY GENERALS AND HIGHER RANKS TO COME SWITCH SIDES...ENOUGH OF THIS SILLY MARXIST NONSENSE,SEEKING TO SILENCE MUCH NEEDED CRITICISM,OF WESTERN POWERS ROLE ,AND INTENTIONS,AGENDA,ALREADY LAID OUT BEFOREHAND...

WITH SPECIFIC GOALS LIKE NATIONBUILDING,CONTROL OF RESOURCES,AND ECONOMIC POLICY...ENOUGH OF THE BS!!!YES THE PEOPLE MAJORITY ROSE UP FROM BEING OPRESSED FOR SO LONG,BUT THE VACCUM WASNT A  VACCUM ,IT WAS A WELL ORCHESTATED RESHUFFLING OF ASSETS,WICH HAD TO BE REORGANIZED,BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONS OF DISCONTENT TOOK PLACE WITHOUT THOSE POWERS BEING PREPARED TO FILL IT(VACCUM)WITH ITS SUBSTITUTES AND REPLACEMENTS