6 thoughts on “‘What are we, Palestinians?’”

  1. The propagandists and the media have gone very so very far out of their way to make us think of Qaddafi as crazy, brutal and stupid that I no longer believe that he is any of those things. I notice that all the news reports trace back to reporters who are holed up in a hotel who hear shooting or who have been told something by a source with an axe to grind.

    All I do know for sure is that France, England and Italy have had an intense interest in colonizing north Africa for thousands of years, and with the “Arab Spring” movement they have lost a tremendous amount of control over all the governments there, and Libya is the weakest and most vulnerable one right now.

  2. really, pragmatic realist? are you saying you had never heard of muammar qadhafi before this year? all you know about him is the propaganda since the current uprising started? i was against u.s. involvement in libya too, but you would have to be pretty uninformed to not see their leader as a both brutal and nuts.

  3. Propaganda about this part of the world has been going on for a long time. I am just saying that I am very skeptical about anything I hear.

  4. Snuzy,

    Libya is all about replacing a rogue dictator with a darling dictator of the West. I for one am flabbergasted as to why anyone would trust the US or the West to get anything right or do humanitarian intervention (which by the way is an oxymoron for a military one).

    I highly recommend the book “The politics of genocide” by Edward Herman. Every one belonging to the Empire should read this.

    Check out the scrappy Black Agenda Report’s very good coverage on Libya.

  5. Libya is all about replacing a rogue dictator with a darling dictator of the West.

    no it’s not. libya is about an uprising by the libyan people, that has now been aided by the west (largely because the dictator has burned too many bridges with the people who would normally support dictators like him). it’s incredibly naive and extremely western-centric to call what is happening there a primarily “western” (i.e.european and american) effort. this did not originate in washington, london or paris, even if the people in those places are trying to use the situation to advance their own aims.

    Check out the scrappy Black Agenda Report’s very good coverage on Libya.

    i prefer to look at arabic sources for news from the arab world. but i can read arabic, so i understand that is not available to everyone. al-j english is pretty good.

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