Surviving Capitalism (Not) : NATO facing military stalemate in Libya

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, August 4, 2011

NATO facing military stalemate in Libya

Click here to access article by Peter Symonds from World Socialist Web Site.

It seems that NATO's "humanitarian mission" is not doing so well in Libya. And, I have been puzzled as to why I've seen almost no mainstream media coverage of events in Libya for some time. Now, foreign coverage is limited to Syria. I'm sure people who follow this blog can figure that out.

In a revealing comment, Hague defended the NATO bombing campaign, saying it had saved “many thousands of lives and stopped the destabilisation of Egypt and Tunisia.” Saving civilian lives is the pretext used to justify NATO’s illegal war on Libya. The reference to Egypt and Tunisia, however, confirms that, along with securing control of Libya’s oil, the US and NATO are intent on establishing a beachhead against the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.