Libya news [backup libyasos] 19 May - 24. May 2012.

Libya S.O.S. resistance news:  24.  May 2012.

18h/ SAIF AL ISLAM PAINTING

"Nature Strikes back" about Saif al Islam as artist :Saif al Islam Gaddafi as artist. His association with The Desert is Not Silent, a touring exhibition of Libyan antiquities and contemporary art was occasionally mentioned but nobody had picked up on the fact that a substantial number of works in that exhibition wereactually painted by Saif al Islam himself. 

Libya news [backup libyasos] 11 May - 18. May 2012.

Libya S.O.S. resistance news:  18.  May 2012.

Why?

Tens Trillions of dollars are spent on militaries, to kill, murder and assassinate.

Why not spend a little bit of that money for food for starving children?

Short review : Libya at Jun 2012

-  As the US Consulate bombing makes clear, even in Benghazi, the centre of the NATO-led uprising , the situation is unstable. Construction in the city is at a standstill since almost all of Libya’s 3.5 million foreign workers left last year. Unemployment is rife and those jobs that remain go to lower paid migrant workers from Bangladesh and Sudan.

 - The Berber tribes in the west of the country have complained of official indifference and neglect by the NTC.

 -  Armed gangs are fighting for control of the smuggling routes into Chad and Sudan, leaving hundreds dead. 

 -  Clashes around Tripoli have frequently led to closures of the border with Tunisia.

-  Last month, Amnesty International cited the case of 20 detainees who were stripped and beaten repeatedly until they became unconscious, then revived and beaten again in Ain Zara Prison. They were left for two days on a concrete floor without mattresses or blankets.

-  The Guardian cited a horrific example of surgeon Salem Forjani, who was sent to Tripoli’s main medical centre by the health minister to remove the hospital director, who was accused of misusing public funds and having close links to "the Gaddafi regime".

 Forjani was kidnapped, detained and tortured by the SSC. After five days, he was released without charge. The health minister could get no explanation from the NTC. The NTC neither arrested the kidnappers nor launched an investigation as the minister requested.

-  On Wednesday, the US Consulate in Benghazi came under bomb and grenade attack, although no one was injured.

 - Many of NATO-led NTC armed gangs have yet to disband or be integrated into the national army, itself little more than another militia. 

There have been constant reports of fighting between these armed groups as they carve up Libya’s towns and cities into “zones of influence.”

- The continuation of these conflicts exposes as a lie the justification for the NATO-led war for regime-change— that it would bring democracy and human rights. Rather than “liberation”, the country faces violent break-up and civil war.

Their real intention in Libya was to install a pliant administration that would enable them to secure control of the country’s lucrative oil reserves, bolster their geo-strategic position in North Africa, and increase their penetration of the entire African continent. 

 - The NTC is  handing out security contracts to private companies from the NATO countries 

 - Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) has postponed elections scheduled for June 19 amid continuing militia clashes, kidnappings and arrests.

The NTC has expanded from 9 to 86 members, but no one even knows who they are or how they are appointed. Its meetings are held in secret, its votes are not published, and its decisions are announced only irregularly on television broadcasts.

 -  NATO’s war on "the Gaddafi regime" was only the herald of a US offensive to bring Africa under its control. 

Immediately after Gaddafi’s lynching, the US announced it was sending troops to four more African countries-- the Central African Republic, Uganda, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

AFRICOM, the US military's African command, is set to carry out 14 major joint military exercises in African countries in 2012, an unprecedented number.

This could not have been achieved without Gaddafi’s ouster. 

Gaddafi was an obstacle to US penetration of Africa. He wielded considerable influence through the African Union (AU), playing a major role in establishing it in the 1990s, serving as its biggest donor and chairing the organization in 2009-10. Libya also provided about $150 billion of investments in Africa and had proposed an African Union Development Bank that would have reduced Africa’s financial dependence on the West.

Full article : Libyan elections postponed amid mounting violence 

Award-winning British journalist Lindsey Hilsum. Next award is The Nobel Prize in Literature

07.06.2012. [Reuters]

Award-winning British journalist Lindsey Hilsum has reported from:

Afghanistan [only today NATO  killed 18 civilians , but no about KILL TEAM in Afganistan], Kosovo [ but NO about organ  traffiking by Albaniana mafia on Kosovo]  and the front lines of the Iraq [ but NO  about colateral damages]  war embedded with a U.S. Marine unit, but Libya's revolution last year marked the first time she set foot in that country.

Now she is responsible for another first: her "Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution" is the first book to tell the story of the 2011 uprising that overthrew longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi through the eyes of Libyans.[?]

 Someone who "last year marked the first time she set foot in that country." 
Can she will explane to me anything? 

Ouch? No, no, let me explain 

“The revolution in Libya was started by a group of little old ladies. And I love that,” Hilsum said 

Is it some kind of joke or only good old propaganda? 
Who will buy this book? Maybe she will get The Nobel Prize in Literature?

August 2011

The fellow alerted the brit reporter to his racism, but the  Lindsey Hilsum    not to notice! 

At first I uploaded a shorter version, which I replaced with this longer one. On the shorter version 'stalkingalizee' replied. I wanted to let you see his response
"That boat was a hijacked tug a bunch of merc niggers were using to rejoin forces to the East. RAF bombed it with a Paveway "

WolkenZwemmer 

Why was it relevant for him to point out that the soldiers were ALL BLACK??? Not relevant at all. 

Just more of the tebels (terrorist/rebels) racism. And note that the tebel admits that there was heavy fighting (READ: we were losing) so NATO stepped in to help them.

PoshBirdGabi

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In this excerpt from a report by Lindsey Hilsum we can hear one of the Rebels talk about a fight that took please in the Refinery of Zawiyah. He talks about the way Libyan soldiers were trying to flee in a boat, but NATO made sure they would not get away by bombing the boat.


Lindsey Hilsum rather naively asks if those that climbed on shore were taken POW, to which Yusuf Hamed responds 'eh, yes and killed'.


The original version can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfVEKOUsn_A


Please read more about "jounalism" in this "free world"

NYT - From Michelangelo and Benetton to the Arab Spring - > 

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/02/nyt-from-michelangelo-and-benneton-to.html

How to use kids in propaganda
http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-use-kids-in-propaganda.html
Matthew VanDyke, Journalist, Missing In Libya, Bringing the pleasures of the American way of life - > http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/10/matthew-vandyke-journalist-missing-in.html

CBS lies exposed --> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/cbs-lies-exposed.html

CNN’S ARWA DAMON AND HER PATHETICLY STAGED “INSIDE LIBYA” PSYOP [CNN & Co - CIA-NEWS NETWORK?]  - >http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/10/cnns-arwa-damon-and-her-patheticly.html

FALSE FLAG OPERATION BY TELEGRAPH! -->http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/10/false-flag-operation-by-telegraph.html

and more links MEDIA crimes

Gaddafi's Libya

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER, LEADER, HERO!

To wit, match Muammar Gaddafi’s record up against that of your favorite candidate:


• Gadhafi nationalized his nation’s oil reserves and used the revenue to build schools, universities, hospitals, and infrastructure.

• Money from Libya’s oil revenue is deposited into the bank account of every citizen.

• He raised the literacy rate from 20 per cent to 83 per cent.

• He built one of the finest health care systems in the “Third World.” 

All people have access to doctors, hospitals, clinics and medicines—free of charge. If a Libyan needs surgery that is unavailable in Libya, funding is provided for the surgery overseas.

• He raised the life expectancy from 44 to 75 years of age.

• Basic food items were subsidized and electricity was made available throughout the country.

• He developed huge irrigation projects in order to support a drive towards agricultural development and food self-sufficiency.

• Recognizing that water, not oil, would be the scarcest resource of the future, Gaddafi initiated the construction of the Great Man Made River, which took years to complete. 

Referred to as a wonder of the modern world, this river pumps millions of gallons of water daily from the heart of the Sahara desert to the coast, where the land is suitable for agriculture.

• Any Libyan who wanted to become a farmer was and still is given free use of land, a house, farm equipment, livestock and seed.

• Gaddafi vowed that his own parents, who lived in a tent in the desert, would not be housed untilevery Libyan was housed.

He fulfilled that promise.

• Under Gaddafi, Libya has now attained the highest standard of living in Africa.

• Gaddafi put up a communications satellite—the first in Africa—to bring the continent of Africa into the 21st century of technology. 

This also interrupted the massive fees that European companies had been charging the Africans.

• He gave women full access to education and employment, and he has enabled women to serve in the armed forces.

• Gaddafi started and financed the African Union to tie all of the Mother continent into an eventual body with a common purpose called the “United States of Africa.”

• Gaddafi did so much to develop Africa that even Obama’s arrogant Caucasian cohort Hillary Clinton had to admit as she stood before the African Union: 

“I know it is true over many years, Gadhafi played a major role in providing financial support for many African nations and institutions…” 

She could not claim America did ANYTHING but exploit, exploit, exploit—and murder!

• He was the first and only leader in the Arab world to formally apologize for the Arab role in the trade of African slaves.

 He acknowledged that Blacks were the true owners of Libya and proclaimed in his Green Book, “the Black race shall prevail throughout the world.”

Nelson Mandela called Muammar Gadhafi one of the 20th century’s greatest freedom fighters

• Nelson Mandela called Muammar Gaddafi one of the 20th century’s greatest freedom fighters, and insisted that the eventual collapse of South Africa’s apartheid system owed much to Gaddafi and Libyan support.

Source:
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_7955.shtml

BRILLIANT! The Truth About Libya, Gaddafi, And The Illuminati

Brilliant compilation and text narrative. Well done. Sharing.
[ReanimatedResidue ]

The Brother Leader Gaddafi addresses students at Oxford University

The brother leader addresses students at Oxford University on the colonial approach of both China and the USA, and the need for Africans to unite to stop both approaches.




GhaddafiSpeaks's channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/GhaddafiSpeaks

A Victory for the Libyan People? The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya

by MAXIMILIAN C. FORTE

1. Genocide
2. Gaddafi is “bombing his own people”
3. Save Benghazi
4. African Mercenaries
5. Viagra-fueled Mass Rape
6. Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
7. Gaddafi — the Demon
8. Freedom Fighters — the Angels [or Holy Rebels]
9. Victory for the Libyan People
10. Defeat for “the Left”

Since Colonel Gaddafi has lost his military hold in the war against NATO and the insurgents/rebels/new regime, numerous talking heads have taken to celebrating this war as a “success”. 

Libya news [backup libyasos] 01. May - 10. May 2012.

The Brother Leader  GADDAFI

Libya S.O.S. resistance news:  10.  May 2012. 

Libya news [backup libyasos] 23. March - 01. April 2012.

Libya S.O.S. resistance news:  01.  April 2012. 

From 01.04. 2012. to 01.05.2012. the Libyan Resistance News shall

 be published in daily posts on the HOME page

21h/ 25 Zuarans kidnapped by Green Resistance from Al-Jamil

Zuara has been on high alert since Saturday night when Green forces from the neighbouring town of Al-Jamil  captured 25 Zuara men [traitors and mercenaries] on their way to Zuara from Nalut.

20h/ 150 dead in Libyan tribal clashes reveal vacuum in authority

Although Libya’s National Transitional Council nominally controls all of the country, in practice it has struggled to integrate the disparate tribal militias who fought Gaddafi into a single national force. As a result, large parts of Libya have disintegrated into separate fiefdoms.

Libyan Popular National Movement

"There is no option but to form a new party - not a party to rule the people, but to draw out the masses from within the people. Not a partial party that rules the entirety, but an entirety that produces a part- the body triumphing over the cancer.
It is a daring operation, a qualitative leap, a new revolutionary lead to create the state of the masses. 
Only the masses have an interest in revolution, which the parasites take their share of, and Dracula drinks its blood..." 
Muammar al Gaddafi, an excerpt from his essay written in '90s "Once Again, an Urgent Call to Form a Party"

Once again, we can see the words of our Brother Leader coming from the past to teach us about the evolution of the revolution, as he saw it, but it took almost 20 years to pass for the understanding to dawn on some of us... Could this be what he was talking about? Could it be that someone actually innitiated such a movement in Libya after all this bloodshed? Something to "draw the masses from within the people" and "the body triumphing over cancer"? I don't know if such is the case, time will tell.

The Libyan Popular National Movement 
(Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الشعبية الليبية‎) 
 http://www.pnmlibya.org/index.php

The Libyan Popular National Movement (Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الشعبية الليبية‎) is a political movement established by former Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya officials on 15 February 2012. Its Secretary General is Major General Khuwaildi al-Hamidi, a former member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council

Libyan Popular National Movement  الحركة الوطنية الشعبية الليبية‎  

According to their first statement, their main objectives are:

Muammar al Gaddafi : Once Again, an Urgent Call to Form a Party

"Today, it's a party and not the people who rules. There are no popular conferences! Therefore, we must crash this tool, which does not represent the people, so that the people can rule. But what is the people?"

[....then he elaborates on that term, concluding]:
"We have now laid up the definition of 'the people' and it is a truly bourgeois definition, and quite unsatisfying. It is a mixture of contradictions and speculations. No doubt, in this definition, 'the people' includes sections of the population that are hostile to one another, combative elements, groups that are against each other socially. Thus, within a people, there are forces and elements of exploitation, theft and monopoly, as well as partisanship, tribalism, reaction, and corruption."

"Following the definition of 'the people', we return to our call for the forming of a party, but how?
Those who rule now, under the umbrella of popular democracy, are not the masses, building a state of masses, but an alliance - not of the people's laboring forces - but an alliance that is against them. It is a despicable alliance, whose own elements do not know one another, but they know each others methods.
They do not meet together and take an oath of allegiance" their alliance is a tacit one......

There is no option but to form a new party - not a party to rule the people, but to draw out the masses from within the people. Not a partial party that rules the entirety, but an entirety that produces a part- the body triumphing over the cancer.

It is a daring operation, a qualitative leap, a new revolutionary lead to create the state of the masses.
Only the masses have an interest in revolution, which the parasites take their share of, and Dracula drinks its blood..."

Muammar al Gaddafi, an excerpt from his essay written in '90s "Once Again, an Urgent Call to Form a Party"

June 7, 2012 - Birthday of Muammar Al Gaddafi Around the World

 Facebook Page: June 7, 2012 - Birthday of Muammar Qaddafi

Muammar Al Gaddafi 

حدث مخصص للاحتفال بالذكرى السبعين 7 يونيو 2012, ذكرى ميلاد معمر القذافي. ونقدم للاحتفال بمولد الزعيم. وعلى الكل المشاركة في هذا الحدث للمدينة في البلد الذي هو فيه.

المطلوب هو قصائد والقصص والصور وغيرها عن معمر القذافي تعبر عنه و عن جميع مراحل حياته .... كفيلسوف الثورة السياسي, الجندي, الرومانسي, مؤسس أول دولة جديدة النوع بأفريقيا (الجماهيرية). والد ومؤسس و زعيم افريقيا رئيس الثورة. وبالنسبة للعالم السياسي للنخبة العقيد القذافي دائما كان الرقم اللامع و الصعب, صاحب الرأي المستقل و يحمل هموم الشعوب. والأهم انه تجرأ على إقامة هذه الدولة في صحاري افريقيا دولة الرعاية المجانية (الطب المجاني, خدمات المرافق العامة, مدفوعات الرعاية, الخ....).

بالإضافة إلى توفيرالمياه لكافة السكان, وإعطاء المواطنين من عوائد النفط مباشرة وفي نفس الوقت مستقلا العقيد القذافي كما كتب كتابا عن رؤيته عن العدل والسياسة و من جهة أخرى استعرض العقود مع شركات النفط الغربية فألغى أغلبها و تجرأ على مساعدة الدول النامية في افريقيا, وقام بالتخلي عن الدولار و جعل للدينار الليبي مكانة ذهبية

بإختصار ... على جميع أحرار العالم مناصرة و مؤازرة أحرار و شرفاء ليبيا و الوقوف إلى جانبهم على طريق تحريرها من الإحتلال الأمريكي الفرنسي الإيطالي الغربي و الذي حصل على يد عملائهم ....

و علينا إستغلال مناسبة ذكرى ميلاد هذا القائد العظيم لإبراز شخصيته و إنجازاته للعالم أجمع علهم يتعظون

Event devoted to Mu’ammar Gaddafi 70th anniversary celebration

June 07, 2012 is the anniversary of Mu’ammar Gaddafi’s birthday.

We offer to organize the Leader’s birthday celebration. 

Each participant of the event may prepare a gift in his/her country and city and place it on June 07, 2012 at the event page. 

These may be greetings, poems, stories, pictures, crafts, actions, etc.

Mu’ammar Gaddafi was a revolutionary, a philosopher, a militant, a romantic, the founder of the first new type state in Africa – the Jamahiriya. 

People called him Brother Leader, Father of Africa, Leader of Revolution.

Gaddafi always was a very unfavourable figure for world political elite – a bright, independent and fantastically popular person. And most important, he managed to establish a social state (free medicine, free education, penny-worth housing fees, social pay-outs, etc.) in African deserts! 

Moreover, to provide priceless water for all the population and to transfer part of the oil extraction profits to the citizens of the country!

 At the same time independent Colonel Gaddafi has written a book on his view of just state structure! 

Besides, he has revised contracts with Western oil companies and laughed at monarchs! Further, he dared to help African emerging nations, he offered to get rid of a dollar and to introduce a golden dinar!!…

To be short, for a long time enemies wove a web of conspiracy. 

It resulted to furious baiting in world mass media, zombieing of public, mud throwing and the most important – the UN puppets’ permission to the military intervention in Libya!!!

Now his country is occupied and demolished. His people is robbed by British, Americans, French, Italians and adjoined Qataris. Mean traitors triumph.

For a long time we see no leaders in our countries worth to be called warriors, who would certainly stand for their countries and peoples – that Colonel Gaddafi has reminded us about. 

The Colonel reminds us about deeds of our ancestors who never surrendered to the enemy, who never hauled their flag down under any conditions. We all people should take a pattern by such statesmen and dream that such heroes were born in our lands.

The Jamahiriya is eternal! The Resistance continues! Let’s support the Libyan people’s struggle for liberation with our event!

Мероприятие, посвященное празднованию 70 летия со дня рождения Муаммара Каддафи. 

07 июня 2012 года годовщина со дня рождения Муаммара Каддафи. Предлагаем провести празднование дня рождения Лидера. 

Каждый человек в своей стране, в своем городе может принять участие в данном мероприятии и разместить 07 июня 2012 года на странице данного мроприятия свои пожелания,стихи, рассказы, рисунки, поделки, акции и т.п. 

Муаммар Каддафи - революционер, философ, политик, боец, романтик, основатель первого государства нового типа в Африке - Джамахирии. В народе его называют Братом Лидером, Отцом Африки, Руководителем Революции.

Для мировой политической элиты - полковник Каддафи всегда был очень неудобной фигурой - яркий, независимый, безумно популярный. 

И главное, он посмел основать в пустынях Африки социальное государство (бесплатная медицина, бесплатное образование, грошовые тарифы за коммунальные услуги, социальные выплаты и т.д.) ! 

К тому же полностью обеспечив бесценной в пустыне водой все население, еще и перечислял гражданам страны часть доходов от нефтедобычи! 

При этом независимый полковник Каддафи еще и написал книгу о своем видении справедливого государственного устройства!! 

Он пересмотрел контракты с западными нефтяными компаниями, насмехался на монархами! 

Еще он посмел помогать развивающимся странам Африки, предлагал отказаться от доллара и ввести золотой динар!! …

Одним словом , враги долго плели паутину заговора… И как результат - травля в мировых СМИ, зомбирование общественности, потоки грязи, а главное - марионетками ООН данное разрешение на военное вторжение в Ливию!!!

И сейчас его страна разорена и захвачена. Его народ ограблен британцами, американцами, французами, итальянцами и примкнувшим к ним Катаром. Грязные предатели торжествуют...

Мы давно не видим в своих государствах лидеров, которых можно было бы назвать воинами, в которых можно быть уверенными, что они пойдут за свою страну и свой народ, о чем нам напомнил полковник Каддафи. Полковник напоминает нам подвиги наших предков, не уступавших врагу, не спускающих флаг ни при каких условиях. Мы, все люди, должны брать пример с таких государственный мужей и мечтать о том, чтобы и в наших землях рождались такие же герои!

Джамахирия вечна! 

Сопротивление продолжается! 

Поддержим нашим мероприятием борьбу ливийского народа за свое освобождение!

Torture in Libya [ WARNING: THESE IMAGES MAY SHOCK VIEWERS]

A new video of torture in Libya has surfaced on the Internet. 

The victim is  a supporter of  Free Libya, Green Libya.

The accent of the men in the video matches that of Misrata. The men are dressed in military garb and accompanied by two teenage boys, who take turns beating the prisoner. 

The victim can be seen lying on the ground with his hands tied behind his back with wire (at 2’19 minutes, a guard can be seen tightening the binds.) His feet are bare, and tied to the branch of a tree. The men beat the soles of the prisoners’ feet repeatedly with a branch and a rubber stick while shouting obscenities at him. 

This is not the first time that this kind of video, which appears to show violent acts perpetrated by former rebels, has surfaced on the Internet. But in many of these videos, the victims were either black African or Berber nomads, who were targeted because they were believed to be Gaddafi’s mercenaries.

“Today, those who took part in the uprising are above the law”

Unfortunately, the NTC government is doing nothing to prevent this type of abuse. On the contrary, perpetrators benefit from complete impunity, thanks to a new law that stipulates that former rebels cannot be brought to court or punished for “acts committed with the goal of ensuring the revolution’s success.” In other words, today, those who took part in the uprising are above the law.
Anyone who criticizes them is immediately branded a Gaddafi sympathizer.
 Welcome to demoNcracy!

SHOCKING: interview with a man who has been tortured for months in Misurata’s jails

This is a Pal-Talk conversation in which a Green ex prisoner in the Barbarian jails of Misurata gangs is revealing of what happened to him and to some of his colleagues, so in this conversation there are three main people: 
First is the Person who hosts and presents the Ex Prisoner his Nickname is (Maadani) the Ex Prisoner plus the intervention from Dr. Hamza Al Tuhami.

Maddani I will let you hear this man who has just got out from the prison of Misurata after they cut off his right leg and left hand. Each of his friends, family and loved ones have paid 120,000 Dinars as a ransom so as to get him out of Misurata prison and now he is going to tell you his full story come on our hero the time is yours now to speak.

The ex-prisoner: 
BISMI ALLAH (in the name of ALLAH) and Salam Alaykoum. I am going to tell you my story in brief if you do not mind but first of all I want to say that concerning my colleagues in that jail I mean those who were militants in that HORRIFIC jail they made me promise that I would tell everything what’s happening there and for me, 


I could not believe that I would get out from that hell without the help of ALLAH first and then from my beloved ones which they also insisted on me to speak up in what is really happening inside those jails and I accepted to appear even on a TV channel to tell these facts. 

"Things they Don't Do Even In Israel": Another Tale from Free Libya

The following is from the account of a man from Sirte who was released from a Misrata jail following a large bribe.  He's missing his right leg and left arm now, from battle prior to capture. It's not so much what torture he was subjected to as what he witnessed and heard from others that's shocking even to those of us aware of some of what's (at least allegedly) going on in "Free Libya."

 The information comes via a green resistance interview via PAL-talk, which I had to look up. This is the same way the famous Nisrene, "Gaddafi's girl executioner," reportedly got her story out after allegedly escaping. She requested anonymity, but shared but too many details matching a well-known story. I'm not sure of her current status and haven't heard an update. This time again the former prisoner anonymous, and the chat was audio only.


"Things they Don't Do Even In Israel": Another Tale from Free Libya
...

“Playground War – Libya” – Documentary

Comment on Documentary “Playground War – Libya”

By Lizzie Phelan

The newly released documentary by Journeyman TV, Playground War – Libya, is an extremely important and heartbreaking insight into the realities of NATO’s war on Libya.

Shot in Sirte, the city that was obliterated during the last weeks of NATO’s bombing campaign, the interviewees who participated very bravely give an extremely honest account of the suffering being endured first and foremost by the primary victims of this aggression, Libya’s children.

It shows that the result of this war, like every war and intervention the west has been involved in, has been the division of people who previous to that intervention lived side by side as brothers and sisters, in peace and unity. In Syria, if western support for the insurgency continues, Libya and history shows that the result will be the same.

As a reporter that witnessed Libya transform from a prosperous, well developed country, that provided a good quality of life for its citizens – a fact that the children in this documentary allude to when they repeatedly remark that they wish life would return to how it was before the war – to a country destroyed beyond comprehension, to now being in Nicaragua, which went through a similar experience, the comments from one of the featured families that supported the western backed insurgency against the Jamahiriyah lead by Muammar Gaddafi, were particularly interesting. 

They remarked how the revolution that they had supported had delivered them no benefits, and that they too were suffering gravely from the war. 

In Nicaragua, many of the ordinary working class people that fought with the US backed “Contras”, against the FSLN government in the 1980s are now supporting and working with the FSLN government that was reelected in 2007. 

The reason for this is primarily that after having lived under 16 years of US backed neoliberal government during the 1990s and early 2000s, and like this Libyan family, far from receiving any benefits instead they suffered greatly, they have experienced first hand betrayal by the forces they once supported

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Sorce: Global Civilian for Peace

American Spring: The Documentary

Even the cold early spring of 2012 could not deter Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists in New York city. People from different backgrounds continue to come out onto the streets. 

The agenda driving all the protesters remains the same: income inequality, corruption among banks and multinational corporations, foreclosures, climate change, police brutality and above all, the need to get together and talk in person -- not just via mobile phones. 

It is all about the courage of ordinary men and women to tell the truth to those who hold power.