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Backing bigots: Obama’s Libya blitz is a tragic betrayal of Africa
July 30th, 2011 by Syd Walker

An insight into ‘Free Libya’, via Twitter


Libyan_Republic Tweet 29th July 2011

One of the xenophobic, bigoted and anti-African 'rebels' that Obama supports

Libyan Republic

Proud of bigotry

Disgusting tweets by @Libyan_Republic are indicative of the mentality of many Libyan ‘rebel’ supporters on Twitter.

Their contempt for black Africans is blatant.

With attitudes like this rife among anti-Ghadafi fanatics, these are dangerous days for any black Africans remaining in rebel-controlled territory. It’s likely most have already fled.

Libyan rebels bullying a black African

Libyan rebels bullying a black African: there are many reports of mass atrocities against blacks in rebel-held territory

They’re also bad days for NATO’s mercenaries, stooges and dupes.

NATO-backed  Libyan ‘rebels’ look more like a rabble every day, with progress on the military front stalled despite some 7,000 NATO bombing raids to weaken the Government and ‘degrade’ its forces.

Proliferating reports of rebel atrocities now appear even in western mainstream media – see Libya: The West ‘Ignoring Rebel War Crimes’

There are also indications the fragile unity of highly disparate rebel factions is fracturing.

Two days ago, the rebel’s military commander General Younis was assassinated in the ‘rebel capital’ of Benghazi. Al Jazeera speculates the assassins may have connections with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Groupthe very same terrorists proscribed by the British Government (while it duplicitously aids and abets the LIFG’s treachery).

Millions march - Harlem August 13th 2011

Millions march - Harlem August 13th 2011

It’s a bad time to emphasize – as if most of us didn’t already know – the bizarre allies America’s first black President has chosen to support.

Before NATO’s multi-billion dollar bombing campaign began, Libya was the African nation with the highest UNDP Human Development Index ranking on the continent . Under Ghadafi’s leadership, it has also made an unmatched contribution to the autonomous development of Africa as a whole. One might have thought US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, supposedly a champion of womens’ rights, would be impressed by the freedom and status of Libyan women.

Instead the US Administration has been digging itself even deeper into the mire over Libya – recently giving recognition to the self-appointed, unelected and widely-despised ‘Transitional National Council’.

By caving in to bad advice from Zionists with ulterior motives Obama and Clinton are bringing further disgrace on the USA and even seriously damaging western corporate energy interests via reduced profits and substantial writedowns. Then there are the impacts of higher oil prices on a fragile US and European economic recovery. By any normal standards, the attack on Libya is clearly madness. But Zionist standards are not normal. The fate of Iraq shows that the agenda of the Zionist/War Lobby is not benign. The warmongers really don’t care about the impact of their wars on either the west or the orient. Death, destruction and economic turmoil are their speciality.

Even now, as spokesman Moussa Ibrahim has explained, the Libya Government is willing to extend the hand of friendship to the USA and negotiate without conditions. America need only stop behaving like a dictatorial bully that’s taken bad acid – and peaceful dialogue, trade and the rebuilding of relationships can begin again. Surely that’s not too much to ask?

On August 13th in Harlem, New York City Americans who oppose lynchings and anti-black bigotry have a chance to demonstrate their disgust at Zionist-orchestrated imperialist attacks on Africa – see Millions March in Harlem Gears Up for August 13 to Oppose US War Against Libya.

Keynote speaker is the Rev Louis Farrakan, who has been a consistent voice of sanity since the anti-Libya heist began.

Let’s hope by then President Obama will have called off this criminal attack so normal Americans have something to celebrate.

Stop Bombing Libya!

 


59 Responses  
  • Nick writes:
    July 31st, 20115:09 pmat

    Racism is abhorrent, but it appears that racism was also a major problem when Gaddafi was still in full control, well before the current uprising.

    It seems no one was too concerned about it then…..

    <href="http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=8411733&quot;

    <href="http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/blog/2010/01/06/feature-03&quot;

      

    • Nick writes:
      July 31st, 20115:26 pmat
    • brian writes:
      July 31st, 20116:33 pmat

      Gadafi has always opposd racism, Nick…and hes not been in power since he left office in 1977…so please stop promoting another Big Lie.

      Also UNwatch is a dodgy zionist jewish site, with no credibility…try to use more credible sources

        

      • Nick writes:
        July 31st, 20118:08 pmat

        Brian,

        I only included the UN Watch one to check your predictable, Pavlovian reaction and you did not disappoint.

        You will dismiss it, even if is true, just because of its Jewish connection. Funny that, since the subject is RACISM, be it in Libya on this occasion.

        The UNWatch report is being supported by various other sources, so it seems you are the one spreading lies, namely that there was no racism in Libya before the uprising.

        What else are you lying about ?

          

        • brian writes:
          July 31st, 201111:06 pmat

          oh Nick, you are a tease! and yes im tempted to dismiss it because its jewish..ie zionist!because the zionists have a history of lying to Goyim second to none. That you choose those arch racists to talk about racism confirms…you ARE a tease!

          who says there was no racism before in Libya? im claiming that Gadafi is not racist….and that you and Big Brother at UNwatch are lying.

            

          • Nick writes:
            August 1st, 20117:32 amat

            Ok, so we have now established that you will reject the truth if it comes from a particular source, that you don’t like. Does that man that you will accept a lie if it comes from a source you do like and if it fits into your narrative ?

            Apparently so. That’s the danger when you look at events through the narrow prism of ideology.

            “Zionists lyng to Goyim ?” Have you been watching these old Nazi propaganda films again ?

            And why aren’t president Ahmadinejad and the Palestnian leadership supporting Gaddafi ?

            <href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thpt6bAz0nU&quot;

            <href="http://news.am/eng/news/49017.html&quot;

              

            • brian writes:
              August 1st, 20118:04 amat

              No nick …you may reject the truth when it comes from a particular source…say Syd Walker! me: i just reject sources that show links to the zionist terror entity. As they have very clear objectives : such as to watch the UN for signs that may show its not acting in Israels interests.

                

            • Syd Walker writes:
              August 1st, 20119:04 amat

              I first heard about UN Watch when it ran a horrible, arm-twisting campaign directed against Richard Falk to try to get him dropped from his role within the UN – a campaign so successful that it actually got the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to issue a personal rebuke against Ralk / affirmation of the validity of the official version of 9-11.

              See NGO Says Richard Falk Has “Zero Credibility,” Urges UN Chief to Fire Him

              More UN Watch attacks on Falk here:
              http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/category/richard-falk/

              Clearly this is an organisation obsessively concerned with Jewish/Zionist interests and highly partisan in its approach to the the UN.

              ‘Nuff said?

                

            • brian writes:
              August 2nd, 20119:02 pmat

              ‘NGO Says Richard Falk Has “Zero Credibility,” Urges UN Chief to Fire Him

              that NGO has zero credibilty….But its no surprise the wimp banki folded./..hes also folded on Libya…under his watch hes begun what UNWatch wants: the end of the UN! Thanks to his Res1973 and somehow thinking UN has the power to let a war machine invade the air space of a sovereign nation and bomb the country.

                

  • Nick writes:
    July 31st, 20115:58 pmat
  • Nick writes:
    August 1st, 201112:02 pmat

    I don’t think the issue here is the source, but the content, which has been confirmed by other sources…. But rather than comment on the message you focus on the messenger. How typical and how convincing…

      

  • Nick writes:
    August 3rd, 20114:37 pmat

    Why aren’t president Ahmadinejad and the Palestnian leadership supporting Gaddafi ?

    <href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thpt6bAz0nU&quot;

    <href="http://news.am/eng/news/49017.html&quot;

    And how do you feel about the Syrian government's treatment of its people. Or is that another Zionist hoax ?

      

    • brian writes:
      August 4th, 201111:24 amat

      why is Iran hostile to the Libyan govt?

      ‘The transformation of women’s status has been so great that the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran imposed a fatwa against Gadhaffi years ago, declaring his government blasphemous to Islamic traditions. ‘

      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25806

      Nick, it seems, hates the idea of free women.

        

  • Libya S.O.S. writes:
    August 4th, 201110:12 amat

    Anti-Gadaffi rebels are the Libyan wing of the Ku Klux Klan !
    (V) Martyr blood of Varffala in Libya (+18) –>
    http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/beheading-in-name-of-democracy-in-libya.html
    (V) RIP HEART and play with it –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/peaceful-protesters-from-benghazi-rip.html
    (V) Massacre ni Benghazi (+18) –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/v-massacre-ni-benghazi-18.html
    (V) Cutting BABY’s fingers, legs and hands (+18) –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/cutting-babys-fingers-legs-and-hands.html
    (V) Bloody Scandal (+18) –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/bloody-scandal.html
    (V) Rape in Libya –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/v-rape-in-libya.html
    Rebels are killers It is so simply
    –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/visual-diary-shows-libyan-rebels.html
    (V) Crime in Benghazi –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/v-crime-in-benghazi.html
    (V) BRUTAL HANGING IN BENGHAZI –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/v-brutal-hanging-in-benghazi.html
    (V) TARGETING BLACK PEOPLE –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/v-targeting-black-people.html
    (V) BURNED SOLDIER (+18) –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/v-burned-soldier-18.html
    (V) SODOMISING A DEAD SOLDIER in LIBYA +18 –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/v-18-pro-democracy-harassment-dead.html
    (V) Evidence of Libya torture in Benghazi HOSPITAL ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avnHiPFwsyk
    (V) PROPAGANDA ala HOLLYWOOD STYLE ( part II) –> http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/propaganda-ala-hollywood-style-part-ii.html
    Download and save videos – for court against humanity by killers whom media call “rebels”

      

    • Syd Walker writes:
      August 5th, 201110:19 amat

      Thanks for your comment Libya SOS, for the collection of gruesome references and for your website.

        

  • Nick writes:
    August 4th, 20118:28 pmat

    “Nick, it seems, hates the idea of free women.”

    I don’t know whatever makes you come to that conclusion, Brian, as I have the absolute opposite view. My mother was a strong feminist and I think women’s lib in the Muslim world would be a blessing to all. The idea of “free women” appeals to me very much.In fact I have enjoyed the company of quite a few “free women” in the course of life.

    I am just confused, because one moment you and Syd are extolling the virtues of Ahmadinejad and now suddenly Gadhaffi is your latest hero and Ahmadinejad is telling the world that Gadhaffi is a criminal. The Hamas leadership apparently agrees with him.

    It just doesn’t add up. Isn’t all this supposed to be a Zionist conspiracy against Libya ? Are they controlling Hamas and Ahmadinejad as well ?

    Now you are saying that Iran does not agree with the status of women in Libya ? I got the impression from articles and comments on this blog that women in Iran were perfectly happy with their status.I got lambasted for saying otherwise.

    Personally I was taken aback by Ahmadinejad’s statement, considering what HE did to the people who dared to go out in the streets of Teheran to express their views. I thought he would have backed Gadhaffi all the way. But he turns out to be a shameless hypocrite instead. Well, life is full of surprise, isn’t it ?

    And let’s not mention Syria. That’s just a legitimate crackdown on malcontents and MOSSAD/CIA sponsored troublemakers…

      

    • brian writes:
      August 5th, 20119:33 amat

      so glad to know you support Gadaffi and the Jamahirya and not the jihadis of Benghazi!

        

      • Nick writes:
        August 5th, 201110:30 amat

        Brian,

        I’m not supporting either side. I think it is up to the Libyans to sort it out.

        The fact that you do not respond to my very valid questions makes me suspect that you haven’t got a clue what you are talking about.

        Once Gadaffi is gone, who will be your next hero of the month ? Some other aging dictator who just can’t let go, regardless of what is best for “his” people ? How about Mugabe ? I believe he is still breathing…just.

          

        • Syd Walker writes:
          August 5th, 20115:19 pmat

          Nick, I think there are real issues of solidarity that need to be addressed within at least three over-lapping groups of nations: Arab nations, Islamic nations and African nations. In each case, there has been an unwise tendency to allow petty grudges to obscure the bigger picture.

          I suspect back in February it seemed the mass media surely couldn’t be lying again – and there was a tendency to accept its atrocity reports re Libya at face value. That has since dissipated – and I challenge you to find a recent quotation by Ahmadinejad or Nasrullah that condemns Ghadafi and the Libyan Government as they endure the ongoing NATO onslaught.

          Even so, I hope serious questions are being asked in Tehran and Beirut, among other places. Why did they tso readily accept the unverified word of the western media and governments – despite their own appalling experience of western lies and duplicity? Why does Press TV continue to call the Libyan rebels ‘revolutionaries’?

          The key to success – for all these societies – is solidarity. It doesn’t mean they should be uncritical of each other. But when a common threat turns violent, petty differences should be set aside. Ghadafi, I think, recognises that more than other Arab/Moslem/African leaders. That’s one of the reasons he poses a threat to imperial overlord wannabees.

            

        • brian writes:
          August 5th, 201111:28 pmat

          newsflash Nick, the Libyans had it sorted out…before NATO DECIDED to ‘intervene’.
          as fo your claim you are not supporting either side..the rest of your weasel post shows you do: the same side as NATO. You wll have to learn not to take sides of the kill arm of the european dictators.
          You seem to think you know whats best for libyans…Libyans disagree! AS for Mugabe…if you were half the man he is, you’d be 10 times the man you are now. Like Gadafi is shows an intelligene and shrewdness as well as humanity none of your lily white dictators can match: the ones who decide whats best for africans.

            

          • Nick writes:
            August 6th, 20117:36 amat

            Thanks Brian. Another typical rant full of abuse and groundless accusations, but no real content. You are doing your cause no good with this ignorant propaganda .

            And Mugabe ? I admired him greatly when he was a freedom fighter. Now he is just a pathetic old man who can’t let go.

              

            • brian writes:
              August 6th, 20113:33 pmat

              Mugabe is still fighting to keep Zimbabwe free, so either youre clueless about the last 30 years in Zimababwe.,.or you never like Mugabe.But you know as little about M as you do about Gadafi…nothing.
              id say your rants show plenty of ground for my scepticism about you and your claims

                

  • Nick writes:
    August 5th, 20116:37 pmat

    Well put Syd, even though I don’t necessarily agree with it all. All these countries do pursue their own agendas and the lack of solidarity goes as far back as “Lawrence of Arabia’s” days.

    What is your take on the situation in Syria ? Surely not all reports we get are Western fabrications ?

      

    • Syd Walker writes:
      August 6th, 20112:12 pmat

      Surprised you ask me for my opinion re Syria Nick.

      I think it’s clearly another planned attempt to destabilise one of Israel’s adversaries. If it works they way the Zionists wan, Hezbollah will be isolated frrom Iran, allowing Israel to dominate another two of its neighbours. Israel’s long-term abition is probably to balkanize them both.

      With luck this won’t happen. I think the Zionists wanted to drag the west into Syria months before now. The astonishing and impressive resistance of the Libyan people has slowed them down and spoiled their momentum.

        

      • Nick writes:
        August 6th, 20112:27 pmat

        Why surprised. I’m just interested on your take on the situation. It is possible to exchange views, even if we violently disagree, isn’t it ?

        I don’t agree with you , but I accept that you interpret things that way.

        My question is more what do you think about the internal unrest in Syria and the way Assad is, apparently, dealing with it.

        Even if there were outside forces involved , you can’t just foster unrest and rebellion unless there is already a high level of discontent. No doubt interested parties will try and exploit that.

        And it is very difficult to believe that the reports of a violent crackdown, with many civilians killed and arrested, are all fabrication.

        Are you saying it is acceptable for a government to turn on its own citizens like that, if they have genuine grievances, even if if it plays in the hands of israel or other outside forces ?

        You got a nepotistic regime which has been in power for decades. Is it strange that sections of the population are unhappy with that ? Isn’t that one of the main factors in the current unrest, rather than outside interference.

          

        • Syd Walker writes:
          August 6th, 20113:00 pmat

          Oh, I’m quite sure there’s authentic dissent in some parts of Syria.

          Take a trip to Mareeba sometime Nick (we both live close by, so you know where I mean). Ask people there what they think about the Gillard Government. Not many have a good word to say about it

          Now imagine the CIA, Mossad and MI6 expended part of their budgets arranging ‘opposition’ to the Australian Government in places like Mareeba – providing disaffected youth in the area with weapons, communications devices and a modicum of training.

          Hey presto – we have a rebellion! Now imagine the western mainstream media reported the story as a case of unarmed demonstrators mowed down by vicious Australian Federal Police. The riots get worse. If Gillard sends in the troops, she’s lambasted as a demonic villain. If she doesn’t, ‘rebels’ take over police stations and raid arsenals, as they did in Benghazi back in February.

          A nice no-win situation for Ms Gillard, eh? Especially when Amnesty and Human Rights Watch gleefully report every last bit of tittle-tattle from the ‘rebels’, while deriding the Gillard Government’s statements as ‘propaganda’.

            

          • Nick writes:
            August 7th, 201112:20 pmat

            I get your point, Syd, but I think the dissent in Syria goes a bit deeper than the one in Mareeba. In fact I think it is absurd to make the comparison.

            In Australia you wouldn’t get an armed rebellion if you paid people… I doubt if the CIA?MOSSAD or the Chinese secret service would have any success in fostering unrest here.

            I was in Mareeba recently and the population seemed reasonably content and prosperous. They have many ways in which people can utter their grievances, they have access to their representatives and thy can even start their own political movements, if they were so inclined.

            The question really is : at which point becomes it acceptable for the state to unleash lethal violence against its citizens ?

            Are ALL reports of unarmed citizens being killed by the Syrian army false ?

            Is Syria protecting itself against outside forces or is it a matter of an unpopular regime trying to stay in power at all costs ?

            I believe the discontent in Syria has been festering for a long time for a variety of reasons. To just blame it on outside interference is overly simplistic.

            No doubt Israel and other are trying to take advantage of the situation. Syria was also interfering in Lebanon for many years and not only out of altruistic motives.

              

        • brian writes:
          August 6th, 20113:36 pmat

          no surprise Nick is also siding with US/israel against Syria…Clourn revolution 101: get the govt to crack down violently on ‘dissidents’ OR at least make it seem they are.
          The bulk of Syrians like the bulk of Libyans support their govt not foreign backed colour insurgents.

            

          • Nick writes:
            August 7th, 201112:30 pmat

            “brian writes:no surprise Nick is also siding with US/israel against Syria”

            Another unfounded and bizarre accusation. I am not siding with anyone.

            It seems that you are the one who is siding with every power hungry dictator in the world and dismiss any “dissent” as a foreign plot.

            Simplistic reasoning 101 and a insult against those who genuinely want regime change, even though you want to deny them the choice. Are you yearning for the days when Stalin ruled Russia, or maybe the Brezhnev years ? You sound a bit like an old, dogmatic communist.

            If all these populations largely support their government, why not let them have a free and democratic election ? it would be interesting to see the result.

            Stop being so bitter, Brian. Count yourself lucky that you live in Australia and not in one of those fool’s paradises.

              

            • brian writes:
              August 7th, 20112:57 pmat

              Only Nick could turn Gadafi or Mugabe into power hungry dictators.LOL Power hungry dictators are distinguished by the fact they have US support…And yes dissent is often controlled by foreign agents: such as Freedom House and Otpor…I shouldnt be surprised if you were such an agent…or at least a sockpuppet.
              The safety of living in australia is that nearly every aussie govt has served the reigning empire…Whitlam govt was the exception, and look what happened to them!
              If the next govt was to reject the Evil Empire, soon dissidents would be crawling out of the woodwork on command!
              Not sure what your doing here as you clearly have no sympathy for the peoples of the middle east,africa or any.

                

  • brian writes:
    August 5th, 201111:37 pmat
  • brian writes:
    August 7th, 20113:06 pmat

    a classic history and analysis of Zimbabwe, the MDC and foreign subversion:
    ‘The government of Zimbabwe felt it could no longer endure this debacle, and by the end of the 1990′s, started moving away from the neoliberal program. Finally, in October 2001, the abandonment of ESAP was officially announced. “Enough is enough,” declared President Mugabe. “ESAP is no more.” A press release issued by the governing ZANU-PF declared, “The termination of ESAP brings to an end the era of control of our economy by the IMF and the World Bank. While we must continue to work with these organizations on agreed projects, they will no longer dictate the direction of policy and the country.” Price controls were implemented for basic commodities that soaring prices had made all but unattainable for many poor Zimbabweans, including bread, maize meal, flour, sugar, cooking oil, beef, chicken, pork, milk, soap and generic drugs. To counter the threat of companies closing in protest against price controls, President Mugabe announced, “The State will take over any businesses that are closed. We will reorganize them with workers, and at last that socialism we wanted can start again.” Mugabe dismissed claims that government should not interfere with the market as “absolute nonsense,” and stated that the nearly hourly price increases for goods and commodities had been unjustified. (9) The 1997 launch of a new phase in the land reform program, in which 1,471 farms were listed for compulsory purchase, triggered British intervention in Zimbabwe. The jettisoning of ESAP four years later, coupled with the statement that sectors of the economy would be placed on a socialist path, only increased the sense of outrage among Western leaders.

    The establishment of a new opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in September 1999, found instant support from Western leaders. Significant funding from Western sources enabled the party to rapidly grow to the point where it won 57 out of 120 seats in the June 24-25 2000 parliamentary election, less than one year after its creation. Ostensibly based in the labor movement, the program of MDC reads like a call for a return to ESAP. A policy paper issued by the party spelled out its plans for privatization. Upon taking power, the party plans to appoint a “fund manager to dispose of government-owned shares in publicly quoted companies.” The boards of all public enterprises would be “reconstituted,” and the new boards would be “required to privatize their enterprises within specified timetables…with an overall target of privatizing all designated parastatals [public companies] within two years.” The interests of Western capital would not be ignored. “In areas where a high level of technical skill is required, foreign strategic investors will be encouraged to bid for a majority stake in the enterprises being privatized.” A primary principle of the program would be that “all sales of major state assets will be conducted through open, international [that is, Western], competitive bidding.” In order to counter opposition from workers made redundant, the National Privatization and Procurement Agency would be instructed to “carry out public awareness campaigns regarding the privatization program in order to generate public awareness and support for the exercise.” Implementation of its program, the MDC feels, will mean “that foreign direct investment will take place on a substantial scale.” (10) As a further incentive for Western investors, the MDC plans to review income and corporate tax levels “for regional competitiveness.” (11)
    http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/breaking-down-understanding-our-enemies/33370-zimbabwe-under-siege-gregory-elich.html

    Nick is an MDC supporter.

      

    • Nick writes:
      August 7th, 20117:15 pmat

      Oh, I get it know, Brian. You mean the Movement for Democratic Reform, whose leader is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. Well we could debate Zimbabwe for hours. Some interesting snippets here from an impeccable source – the Monthly Review-, which aren’t exactly complimentary about your hero.

      Waiting breathlessly for your take on the great Pol Pot, another victim of Western vilification and intrigue.

      <a href="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/bond210908p.html&quot;

      Likewise, the inability to cement a working power-sharing deal across the river in Zimbabwe confirms how hard elite factions will fight over the crumbs of even a quick-shrinking state.  These are interconnected problems and should make world elites rather nervous.
      Their favourite Zimbabwean, Morgan Tsvangirai, may feel the need to follow their austerity instructions.  But to get the billions of dollars promised in coming months from Western powers and Pretoria, Tsvangirai must tighten the belts of his already starving compatriots, a task requiring far more control of the Zimbabwe state than the patronage-addicted cronies of Robert Mugabe will allow.
      On Friday, negotiations over the new cabinet's composition broke down because Mugabe's Zanu (PF) colleagues were dissatisfied over getting only 15 of the 31 seats in a deal done the prior week with Mbeki acting as facilitator.  Mugabe's men are, without question, the most exploitative, parasitical force in Harare today, but imperialism (London mining houses) and South African subimperialism (Johannesburg mining, banking, retail, transport, tourism) look on greedily — in part for platinum reserves as rich as any outside South Africa.
      The outsiders have hoped that Zimbabwe's ongoing economic implosion — a 20 million+ percent inflation rate and persistent shortages of nearly all basics (hence last week requiring permission for many shops to trade in dollars and rands instead of the debased Zim currency) — compels Mugabe to give up power, though Mbeki's aim has all along been to shoehorn Tsvangirai into a junior partnership, which he agreed to in spite of widespread dissent that the concessions were too great.
      Unfortunately, against this lot, Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party and its progressive allies in the trade unions and social movements simply could not generate a "Plan B" — popular insurgency or active civil disobedience — in the face of Mugabe's repressive police, army and paramilitaries.
      So all Tsvangirai has left for countervailing power is his moral claim to a March electoral victory (he withdrew from a June run-off when 100 supporters were killed by Mugabe's thugs) — worth nearly nothing in Harare power politics — and the hope he can attract a vast reconstruction fund from London, Washington and Brussels.

      <href="http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/african-leaders-hide-political-woes-behind-homophobia&quot;

      The Black Radical Congress joins those who have strongly condemned the Namibian president’s assault on same gender loving people in his Southern African nation. Namibia, a former German colony that was administered as a mandate and later annexed by South Africa, gained its independence in 1990 after a more than 20-year long anti-apartheid war. Given that he is a former freedom fighter and a head of state, Nujoma’s homophobic, discriminatory actions are particularly repugnant. His actions and rhetoric come on the heels of similar rhetoric and repression in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has campaigned to imprison and expel same gender loving people.
      Both Mugabe and Nujoma have equated homosexuality with bestiality and even murder, and both have called for the eradication of homosexuality from the face of the earth. These threatening pronouncements signal that a new wave of genocidal crimes against gays and lesbians in Africa could be in the making.

        

      • brian writes:
        August 8th, 201112:18 pmat

        ‘Democractic reform’? parties often use titles taht dont refelect their nature. MDS is funded by western states…and is their agent inside Zimbabwe.

        theres no such thing as an impeccable source.look at Aljazeera! Mrzine is just such a sad case of a mixed bag
        ‘Even at MRZine the ruling ideas on Zimbabwe are the ideas of the ruling class
        By Stephen Gowans
        ‘What’s happened, however, is that the independent socialist publication(MRZINE) has reproduced ruling class ideology, and has put its own stamp on it to make it acceptable to its left-wing constituency. When the British Foreign Office view is passed from one publication to the next, each affixing its own imprimatur, is it any wonder everyone agrees with the British Foreign Office?’

        While committed publicly to dissecting the politics and culture of capitalism, MRZine does nothing of the sort where Zimbabwe is concerned. Instead, it repackages the justifications the US and British ruling class are using to torpedo Zimbabwe’s efforts to invest national liberation with real content, in the service of the bottom lines of Western investment banks, corporations and white commercial farmers.
        etc
        http://gowans.blogspot.com/2008/05/even-at-mrzine-ruling-ideas-on-zimbabwe.html

        but reading MRZine notice how it talks of Mugabe reppressive police armies and paramilitaties…sans evidence.But maybe what they mean is zimbawbes(not Mugabes) loyal forces who have seen what happens in countries where subversives attempt to take over the country.

        So nice try…and sure enough Nick is serving white interests in africa: just like the MDC.

        It alawys a pleasure to expose a rogue(you and that MRZINe piece) in pseudo-leftist drag.

          

  • Nick writes:
    August 7th, 20114:10 pmat

    Brian says ; “Nick is an MDC supporter”.

    Well, Brian , you never disappoint me, although your responses are getting more irrational by the day.

    I have never even heard of the MDC until today. And now am I some sort of agent ?

    You are clearly insane. I have no sympathy for the people of africa and the Middle east ? How do you know ?

    “The safety of living in australia is that nearly every aussie govt has served the reigning empire”

    So why don’t you bugger off and go and serve the revolution somewhere instead of being a desk warrior living on the stolen land of another “deprived” people. I hope for your sake that THEY never take up arms.

      

    • brian writes:
      August 8th, 201112:28 pmat

      so you admit you know nothing about MDC, yet act as if you know enough about Zimbabwe to demonise its leader? How can this be if you dont even know of the political make up of Zimbabwe?
      i’d say you are lying,as its impossible not to have heard of the MDC…that would mean youve never heard of Zimababwe til today!!!!

      ‘I have no sympathy for the people of africa and the Middle east ? How do you know ?’
      you just admitted you had never heard of the MDC…that means youve read nothnig on Zimbabwe, yet choose to attack a man (Mugabe) of whom you know nothing. You might just be employable by Murdoch with those credentials!
      You attack the leaders and govts of Libya and Zimbabwe…as if it was your place to say who should rule. Thats the behaviour of the whitemans burdened white man.

      My advice to Syd is to bounce this bozo,as by his own admission he knows nothing on which he writes. Why do you tolerate a sockpuppet like him?

        

  • brian writes:
    August 8th, 201112:35 pmat

    more on MRZINE and Zimbabwe:
    http://gowans.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/mrzine-gets-zimbabwe-wrong%e2%80%a6again/

    so why would Nick choose MRZINE? did he go google shopping with the following search: ‘Zimbabwe…hate…leftwing…Mugabe…dictator…? and he got MRZINE! But as he admits: he knew nothing about MDC before today…so he must have made an effort to find a left wing group that is ‘impeccable’..to buttress his zealous hate of a man he also can know nothing about.

    Thats one well programmed sockpuppet!

      

  • brian writes:
    August 8th, 201112:45 pmat

    lets check with Lou..that fountain of all thats confused in impecacble left wing sources!

    ‘Gowans is arguably worse than MRZine. At least MRZine prints Patrick Bond’s attacks on Mugabe, one of Gowans’s favorite thugs.’

    Comment by louisproyect — May 4, 2011 @ 4:42 pm
    http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/monthly-reviews-love-affair-with-the-al-assad-dynasty/

    Now Louis hates Mrzine with a passion, so Gowans must really have offended his tended impeccable left wing sensibilities!

    Funny thing about Lou is that he supported Milosevic, another favorite victim of demonisation, yet seems not to draw the obvious conclusion that Mugabe is also being demonised.

    As you see Louis admits that MRZINE is ‘attack’ing Mugabe…not the sort of word i’d use in whats supposed to be objective analysis! More the behavior of a zealot…what did Mugabe do to deserve this attack by the impeccable left? take back land from whites who stole it from the native people .

      

  • brian writes:
    August 8th, 201112:51 pmat

    and while im on Louis: here is a sample of his Savoir faire!

    Granted, one of Bond’s writing partners took a trip with two NGOs who were funded by NED or some such, her group was also given a presidential medal of honor:
    http://gowans.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/the-company-patrick-bond-keeps/

    That said, Bond also included one of authors of the fairly fluffy land reform report in his talk last November:
    http://www.counterpunch.org/bond11152010.html

    So it’s good he’s trying to engage all types, I suppose.

    Comment by Jenny — May 4, 2011 @ 6:37 pm

    Jenny, you are a fucking idiot.

    Comment by louisproyect — May 4, 2011 @ 6:38 pm

    I was just telling you what he said, sheesh.

    Comment by Jenny — May 4, 2011 @ 11:14 pm

    Jenny, do me a fucking favor and don’t send any links. The comments section is about people expressing their own viewpoints, not being errand boys or girls for somebody else’s. If you don’t have a viewpoint, then get lost.

    Comment by louisproyect — May 4, 2011 @ 11:21 pm

    You want my opinion on Gowan’s pieces? Okay, I think with the Bond piece, he has a point about being cautionary although I still think Bond’s generally a smart guy. Now why do you think Gowan is wrong with that entry?

    Comment by Jenny — May 5, 2011 @ 1:19 am

    Louis, do you really think your abusive responses to Jenny do less harm to your blog than do Jenny’s postings of links? And your intolerance of Jenny’s links is in stark contrast to your toleration of the often-incomprehensible personal attacks by the Todd entity, who makes you look civil in comparison.

    Comment by Aaron Aarons — May 6, 2011 @ 8:55 am

    http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/monthly-reviews-love-affair-with-the-al-assad-dynasty/
    ==========================
    Lou does this all the time…

    so this fellow supports MRZINE(which he usually loathes) because it attacks a famous and independent black african revolutionary leader! And uses the F word when someone dares to politely suggest he may be a bit wrong..

    Unlike Nick, i can tell who is worth supporting and who is not.
    VIVA Mugabe,VIVA Gadaffi!

      

  • Syd Walker writes:
    August 8th, 20111:57 pmat

    Thanks for this discussion. It’s given me plenty to read.

      

    • Nick writes:
      August 8th, 20112:51 pmat

      I seem to remember that you quoted MRZINE yourself in another post, Brian. But probably only if it suits you.

      Your obsession with strong, older, authoritarian men is interesting. And now you have added Milosevic to the mix.

      You should calm down a bit. You sound so angry.

      I have followed events in Zimbabwe and I know about their Prime Minister (“democratically” elected, I believe ?) and the political party he belongs to. I didn’t immediately catch on to the abbreviation you used. I must admit I don’t read every line and watch every link you post here. And then you wasted another 15 lines ranting about that…

      I think every person is entitled to decide who or what he wants to support. You are starting to sound a bit like a dictator yourself.

      Your insults really leave me cold , Brian and so do you your twisted arguments.

        

      • brian writes:
        August 8th, 20117:14 pmat

        no i quoted an article on MRZINE…that doesnt mean i endorse all they post..now does it? you seem to be lacking in intellectual honesty if this is how you try to win an arguement.
        i also quote the NYT and FOX..if they post anything relevant.

        strong older authoritarian men…hmm thats not my obsession…its yours!
        ass usual you call any independent leader ‘authoritian’..thats out of the US state dept Play book!

        SOrry but you said youd never heard of the MDC…so clearly you know little about Mugabe…as the last 10 years the MDC has been the ZANU-pfs main enemy, manufactured after Zimbabwe let go the IMF program.

        when you get to be a zimbabwean, you too can decide who you want in govt there….

          

        • Nick writes:
          August 9th, 20114:44 pmat

          You’re starting to sound slightly hysterical Brian.

          “if this is how you try to win an arguement”.

          Is this what this all about ? Winning arguments…

          “you said youd never heard of the MDC”

          Actually you are starting to sound like a five year old…

          But really, your views are so extreme ( not sure if it to the right or the left) that not many people will take you serious.

          Is that why you are so angry and unhappy and are obsessed with “independent”, strong old men ?

          Interesting how you seem to think that there is only one absolute truth out there. The truth of Brian !

          That explains why you have now called several times for me to be censored.

            

          • brian writes:
            August 10th, 20119:46 amat

            Nick hasnt heard of the MDC yet acts as of he knows all about Mugabe! LOL what a card!

            and yes he is obsessed with old men.

              

            • Nick writes:
              August 10th, 201110:10 amat

              Yawn…

              Yes, Brian, whatever you say.

              Let me know when you have grown up. Then we can continue this “debate”….

                

    • Nick writes:
      August 8th, 20113:00 pmat

      There is quite a bit of interesting stuff on Syria in MRZINE (which I came across via your blog).

      http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/kassem300411.html

      I hope that you don’t just dismiss this as propaganda and look at events in Syria with an open mind. You can’t just dismiss the whole thing as a Zionist/Western plot. There is much more to it than that.

      Is outside interference in a country’s internal struggle ok if for example Gaddaffi supports the IRA, but in other cases not ?

        

      • brian writes:
        August 8th, 20117:16 pmat

        the IRA is aresistance organisation…they fought british occupiers

          

        • Nick writes:
          August 9th, 20114:48 pmat

          Yes, I am well aware of what the IRA is, Brian.

          Many of the dissidents in Syria would consider themselves resistance fighters against Assad’s fascist regime.

            

          • brian writes:
            August 10th, 20119:45 amat

            Only they arent: they are agents of foreign subversion.NOW when will we see the Tottenham rioters take the next step and attack a military base take weapons and launch a revolution?…just like in Libya…

              

            • Nick writes:
              August 10th, 201110:01 amat

              Brian, there is no doubt in my mind that you are well and truly insane.

              Just because you keep endlessly repeating yourself does not make it true.

              Trying to discuss anything with you is like trying to have a debate with a five year old.

              No, it isn’t

              Yes, it is,

              No, it isn’t

              Yes, it is.

              Bye,bye Brian.

              Don’t forget to take your medication.

                

            • brian writes:
              August 10th, 201111:20 pmat

              you have a mind nick? didnt know sockpuppets had one. Youre problem is you wage war on figures like Gadafi and Castro, just cause you take your opinion from spiteful trend setters, who hate independent leaders.
              Id prefer to debate an honest 5 year old to a ranting adult, with his: CASTRO IS A THUG! CASTRO IS A THUG! CASTRO IS A THUG! LOL

                

  • sentience writes:
    August 11th, 20112:08 amat

    mugabe, the hero whose white genocide is the toast of bien pensants.
    http://is.gd/SWjwaW

      

    • Nick writes:
      August 11th, 20117:41 amat

      Expect a violent outburst from comrade Brian, who is so starstruck by ageing dictators that he has lost his grip on reality…

        

    • brian writes:
      August 11th, 20116:46 pmat

      yes Mugabe is a hero…maybe not to whites who think blacks owe them a favor….as for white genocide..sorry but no such thing not in Zimbabwe…what there is is Mugabe aiding Zimbabwes to get back what they had stolen by white invaders
      http://www.swans.com/library/art8/elich004.html

        

      • Nick writes:
        August 11th, 20118:13 pmat

        I don’t think Mugabe is a hero to the thousands of BLACK people that he murdered and tortured over the years.

        http://www.sokwanele.com/articles/supporting/achronicleofpostindependencemassacre_16july1997.html

        See, I can copy and paste too…

          

        • brian writes:
          August 12th, 20119:42 amat

          yes but all you can copy and paste is propaganda…in this case: Matebeleland(ancient history)! Using your source:

          ‘But President Robert Mugabe has refused to give an apology for the massacres saying that it “it is not unusual for people to die in a war situation.” He has even refused to entertain suggestions that the victims’ surviving relatives must be compensated. The President contends that the legitimate government of Zimbabwe had a right to use any method to stem the tide of insurrection.’

          This sounds familar….as it recalls the attack on the Branch davidians by the US govt in WACO texas! So glad you are ready to see the US govt indited for a massacre.

          HOWEVER, we also learn:

          ‘Conservative members of his government point out that the Ndebele, Zimbabwe’s minority tribe that was deeply opposed to the Mugabe presidency turned down the offer of peace at independence in 1980.
          They add that the key Ndebele leader, Joshua Nkomo, and his Lieutenants instead opted for war. Thus from 1981 to 1983, Ndebele militants carried out a reign of terror in Matabeleland and Midlands that resulted in massacres of about 40 white farmers, destruction of government properties in the region and systematic massacres of government supporters and officials.’

          So we have militants who hate Mugabe and go on the rampage and massacre Givt(aka Mugabe) supporters!

          Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

          How strange that the while your alleged Mugabe massacrestook place, Mugabe earned two doctrates one in US, and a knighthood! LOL

            

          • Nick writes:
            August 12th, 201111:20 amat

            Isn’t that the whole point, Brian ? We can both keep trawling the internet and come with hundreds of conflicting and opposing reports. I wasn’t there and neither were you , so we both rely on the reports from third parties.

            Do you have a team of experts vetting all the reports and articles for you, or do you just decide at random which sources you will trust and which ones you will discard ?

            Most likely massacres were carried out by both parties and it is regrettable that they turned onto each other after the common enemy had been defeated.

            Personally I have no preference for either tribe. I just think it is a great pity that they squandered the opportunity to work for the good of their whole nation. Zimbabwe could have been a model state instead of the basket state it is now.

            As usual you fail to see the big picture, resorting instead to mindless hero worshipping, twisting of the facts and trying to ‘win” some sort of argument.

            I don’t know what drives you, but it certainly can’t be any concern for the welfare of the people of Zimbabwe.

            The Matabeleland massacres are well documented, so I am at a loss why you insist on re-writing history

            <href"http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/gukgenocide.1111607.html&quot;

              

  • sentience writes:
    August 11th, 20119:35 amat

    where’s michael moore when needed?
    http://therealcuba.com/negro-desnudo-en-linea-y-2A.jpg

      

  • sentience writes:
    August 12th, 201110:27 amat

    the point is that all governments regularly execute arbitrary and unprovoked violence. america’s violence used to be primarily reserved for foreign theatres (think the million philippinos massacred in the us-spanish war just for starters), because americans had a tradition of small government and self-reliance for much of their early history. washington’s ability to damage was circumscribed by its limited resources, not by its goodness.

    incidents like waco show that this violence is now also visited on the homeland, and this will increasingly the case as the economic decline of the us increases in the next years.

    the fact that us administration have chalked up vastly more civilian victims than the mugabe regime says nothing about the latter’s brutality or culpability. if zimbabwe were as rich and productive as the us, the massacres of mugabe’s enemies would have been much more extensive.

      


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