Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Media Blackout: NATO Returns to 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

Saturday, January 9, 2016

Media Blackout: NATO Returns to Libya

Click here to access article by Rudy Panko from Russia Insider.

But then history has a way of surprising people, and it did after 1990 with the growth of a powerful China and the newly found independence of Russian nationalism. Of course the US Empire directors could not accept these new obstructive rivals to their world dominance, and thus made Russia and China a new version of an enemy.

One of the major advantages of being a NATO member is that you are allowed to conduct military operations in any country of your choosing, with minimal (or no) news coverage and absolutely zero debate.

This delightful perk is more or less written into NATO's charter. And it's been an especially perky perk with regards to Libya —once the richest, most developed nation in North Africa; now a moon crater.