MERGED: The Arab Spring

[masakiton]

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in times of war, countries such as US can disguise war profiteering as international aid.... billions of money are to be made... war costs paid by citizens and profits pocketed by a selected few...

oil for food program

[gareb]

the Libyan government has now announced a ceasefire against rebel forces, despite the ongoing shelling of rebel strongholds, particularly Misrata, the closest to Tripoli.

it seems that in the ongoing stalemate, a lot of observers are now looking into the possibility of two libyan states along the old lines of Tripolitania and Fezzan versus Cyrenaica.

[flanker]

Kim Jong Ill's advice to Iran:

Don’t trust the West, get a nuke if you can..and keep it handy or else you will be the next Gadaffi.. lolz

The present Libyan crisis teaches the international community a serious lesson.

It was fully exposed before the world that “Libya’s nuclear dismantlement” much touted by the U.S. in the past turned out to be a mode of aggression whereby the latter coaxed the former with such sweet words as “guarantee of security” and “improvement of relations” to disarm itself and then swallowed it up by force.

It proved once again the truth of history that peace can be preserved only when one builds up one′s own strength as long as high-handed and arbitrary practices go on in the world.

The DPRK was quite just when it took the path of Songun and the military capacity for self-defence built up in this course serves as a very valuable deterrent for averting a war and defending peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

[malic_2]

Muammar Gaddafi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[joebrown]

my prayers are with my libyan friends and their family fighting for their freedom... here's a website providing chronological details on what is happening there from day 1 up to now. Libya February 17th - Keeping with the 2011 Libyan Revolution as it happens

[reborn!]

Ang problema sa Libya halos walay kalainan sa Pilipinas niadtong 1986 ug 2001: ang nag-away pulos mga naadunahan sa pangurakot sa katawhan. Parehas ra ang oposisyon ug ang gobyerno ni Khadaffy. Ang oposisyon mga balimbing ra nga nagserbisyo kay Khadaffy sulod sa 40 years. Gigamit lang ang kasuko sa mga tawo sa diktadura ni Muammar.

Unya ang "humanitarian" war sa NATO nakapasamot na hinoon sa pagkabahin-bahin sa mga tawo didto ug sa ilang kalisod. Pagkatinood lang wala gyuy kalabotan sa gera karon sa Libya ang mga Libyans kay dili man para sa ila ang interes sa mga lider both sa opposition ug sa administration...

[reptoid]

Kim Jong Ill's advice to Iran:

Don’t trust the West, get a nuke if you can..and keep it handy or else you will be the next Gadaffi.. lolz

Gadhafi only has himself to blame. He could have led a peaceful life had he only stopped behaving like a gangster. In the end in was his own people who had enough of him and it's important to point out that he only renounced terrorism (hollow words) once images aired of Saddam Hussein being dragged from a hole in the ground. My own belief is that tyrants will really only respond to extreme violence..... it's the one language they truly understand.

[reborn!]

My own belief is that tyrants will really only respond to extreme violence..... it's the one language they truly understand.

Same with the democratic opposition supported by the big capitalist powers in the West and NATO. The arms used by Khadaffy's military were bought from the democratic West - UK and France. So as the arms that are being use now by the rebels.

[reptoid]

^There is no democratic opposition because there is no democracy in Libya, if there was then people would be making changes with their ballots rather than taking to the street out of sheer desperation.

Libya bought weapons from several countries after embargoes were lifted.... so what? As soon as their leadership regressed into savagery again sanctions were back on the table. We live in an ever changing world.

[reborn!]

^There is no democratic opposition because there is no democracy in Libya, if there was then people would be making changes with their ballots rather than taking to the street out of sheer desperation.

Maybe you are right. Democracy is just a facade. But it is also real...another face of dictatorship of the savages and barbarians. However, you cannot gauge "democracy" through ballots. China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba all maintain their dictatorship through elections calling it "socialist democracy". Same as in the Western world....Yet these Western democracies are the ones pushing and supporting groups to kill each other in the name of democracy.