NATO nations set to reap spoils of Libya war

[EFerrari]

Rachel Shabi Last Modified: 25 Aug 2011 17:20



It looks like the more telling news on Libya has migrated to the business pages. With jubilant reporting of Gaddafi's imminent downfall seizing headlines, it's the financial pages that have the clinical analysis. So, for instance, it is in this section that the Independent reports a "dash for profit in the post-war Libya carve up".

Similarly, Reuters, under the headline, "Investors eye promise, pitfalls in post-Gaddafi Libya" noted that a new government in that country could "herald a bonanza for Western companies and investors".

Before Tripoli has completely fallen, before Gaddafi and his supporters have stepped down and before the blood dries on the bodies that have yet to be counted, Western powers are already eyeing up what they view as just rewards for the intervention.

There are no more illusions over how far NATO forces exceeded the UN security resolution that mandated its campaign. For months, NATO officials insisted it was operating within brief - an air campaign, designed to protect civilians under threat of attack. But now it is described as an "open secret" that NATO countries were operating undercover, on the ground.

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/20...

[arcane1]

1. "free market solutions" perhaps?

[EFerrari]

2. It's like watching vultures gather around a carcass.n/t

[ixion]

3. except in this case the vultures created the carcass.

[EFerrari]

4. True. n/t

[Jefferson23]

5. I disagree on one point, the illusion is still intact on MSM tv land news..Anderson Cooper is now

focused on showing Muammar Gaddafi and his collection of Condi Rice photos.

Important stuff ya know.



K&R

[walerosco]

6. indeed

Spoils of war. We will libertate their oil fields from being nationalized cos we all know socialism is for noobs. I wonder how long before all the war cheerleaders on DU come out defending their MIC friends.

This is crony capitalism at its best. Goverment with the people's money clears the way and private for profit companies go in to reap the reward. Yay for war.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[xchrom]

7. GASP! -- quelle shock! nt

[tcaudilllg]

8. That's what they think. n/t

[Octafish]

9. Days. Weeks. Months. Years. Decades.

War Forever, until there's nothing left to steal.

[bvar22]

10. Freedom Bombs aren't FREE!

They come with a hefty price tag attached.

Like Iraq, Libya's Natural Resources will go to the Global Corporations,
and Libya will be turned into a NeoLiberal Free Market HELL.

Naiomi Klein (Disaster Capitalism) was exactly right.
And, If you don't have a disaster,
the US Military will be glad to create one!

K&R for more exposure.
DUers NEED to read & understand what really happened (and IS happening) in Libya.
The American Working Class WILL pay for this,
but the Global Corporation/Global Banks WILL reap the profits,
JUST LIKE IRAQ!

Financial Heist of the Century: Confiscating Libya's Sovereign Wealth Funds
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=24479&contex...

Goldman Sachs "Lost" 98% of Libya's $1.3B Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/05/31/go... /

”Gaddafi is the perfect villain for this Anglo-French-American farce unworthy of French playwright Georges Feydeau. For all his dictatorial megalomania, Gaddafi is a committed pan-African - a fierce defender of African unity. Libya was not in debt to international bankers. It did not borrow cash from the International Monetary Fund for any "structural adjustment". It used oil money for social services - including the Great Man Made River project, and investment/aid to sub-Saharan countries. Its independent central bank was not manipulated by the Western financial system. All in all a very bad example for the developing world.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MD27Ak01.html

("They" didn't even bother to change The Marketing for this one.)
If you're not FOR the New OIL WAR in Libya,
you're WITH The Communists AlQaeda The Terrorists Saddam Qaddafi!!!

You CAN fool most Americans ALL of the time.
I AM surprised by how many DUers bought in to this.
How quickly some forget.