Translated "Avante!" article by Luís Carapinha, member of the International Department
The aggression war against Libya, undergone by a number of powers, headed by the USA ,continues . As foreseeable, and since the UN’ s Security Counsel(SC) approved the shameful intervention mandate on the 17th March, the “air exclusion zone” became the terrorist and plunder war’s Trojan horse, that targets the Libyan national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Amid the 15 SC members, none opposed war, including two out of the five countries holding veto power, Russia and China, which chose for abstention. One of the 10 states that voted in favour of a resolution ,Colombia, in an intolerable hypocrisy, proclaims as the ultimate purpose “the protection of civilians”, precisely one of the regimes holding the most disastrous record on what concerns human rights.
Previously, the SC had proved a record celerity by endorsing the very doubtful Libyan dossier unto that so-called TPI phantom, a class (in) justice supranational apparatus prototype, from which, by precaution and in supreme hypocrisy, nor even the USA itself, are subscribers…
Throughout this process, in which morality and ethics come down to the subsurface and the United Nations Charter was launched unto the mud , the UN secretary-general acted according to his profile, as a diligent facilitator and collaborator of this imperialist enterprise
Watching the TV and handling the dominant media press pages one does not find any devastation signals of a treacherous war that spares civilians and methodically destroys the Libyan economic infrastructures. The current campaign reactionary and neo-colonial purposes are converted into a taboo and the Libyan State’s sovereign reserves and assets’ scandalous and shameless plunder is lost amid the lines. Day after day, the exultant armed bands’ chaotic images go spread, and of which it is no longer possible to hide being “unable of gaining ground without the crucial support of the allies ’bombardments”(in El País.com, 11.03.29). Only a few are aware of the flag they bear, being the Libyan late monarchy‘s, from the times when the country bowed down under the foreign diktat and where the USA and England had their military bases. But why should one mind, when one must save civilians?
Rasmussen, NATO’s secretary-general in duty, only but thinks on saving civilians.
Ultimately, NATO embodied the Sunrise Odyssey operation command, fastening the internal convulsions under an agreement veil, has just made its debut in the skies ( and, maybe, on land) of Libya, the very recent strategic concept, adopted five months ago, during the Lisbon Summit. When it comes to save civilians and other similar matters, the imperialist military Alliance’s background, is enviable.
Yugoslavia or the wars in progress in Iraq and Afghanistan, together with all the routine flow of atrocities, are there to persuade the most stubborn in believing imperialism’s humanitarian fervour.
A dangerous sign of times, the inconsistency of this whole operation is heartbreaking.
Libya, a wealthy country in oil reserves, gas and fresh water, faces the spectrum of
partition and somalization. Intervening within an African country, where tribal entailment remains powerful, imperialism tries to achieve goals, in weeks, that required years in Yugoslavia.
The Arab reactionary counter-offensive, always supported by the great capitalist powers, is in full development. Far beyond the fundamental requirements/demands to appease the popular rebellion’s genuine movements, chaos and the disintegrating wave, which settles down in huge areas, are the reverse of the coin of the growing capitalist centralization and the attempt to impose a new hegemonic world order, which moves forward against time.
At the compass of the most serious systemic crisis, imperialism calls upon war.
Will Obama receive a new Nobel Prize?…
The important is to understand that under these winds, Humanity sails towards the catastrophe. One ought to avoid it.
