Thursday, March 28, 2013

"Nato's Inevitable War" An Article by Fidel Castro

Before The Western Allied forces Launched Air Strikes on Libya, Fidel Castro had Predicted that NATO would Wage a War against Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Here is what he Communicated to Planman Media

In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy in the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort. The population wasn’t lacking food and essential social services. The country needed an abundant foreign labour force to carry out ambitious plans for production and social development. For that reason, it provided jobs for hundreds of thousands of workers from Egypt, Tunisia, China and other countries. It had enormous income and reserves in convertible currencies deposited in the banks of the wealthy countries, from which Libya acquired consumer goods and even sophisticated weapons that were supplied exactly by the same countries that today want to invade it in the name of human rights.

The colossal campaign of lies, unleashed by the mass media, resulted in great confusion in world public opinion. Some time will go by before we can reconstruct what has really happened in Libya and separate the true facts from the false ones that have been spread.

Without any doubt, the faces of the young people who were protesting in Benghazi – men and women wearing the veil or without the veil – were expressing genuine indignation. One is able to see the influence that the tribal component still exercises on that Arab country, despite the Muslim faith that 95% of its population sincerely shares.

Imperialism and NATO – seriously concerned by the revolutionary wave unleashed in the Arab world, where a large part of the oil is generated that sustains the consumer economy of the developed countries – could not help but take advantage of the internal conflict arising in Libya so that they could promote military intervention. The statements made by the US administration right from the first instant were categorical in that sense.

But the US could not drag China and Russia to support the approval by the Security Council for a military intervention in Libya, even though it managed to obtain however, in the Human Rights Council, approval of the objectives it was seeking at that moment. With regard to a military intervention, the Secretary of State stated in words that admit not the slightest doubt: “No option is being ruled out”.

The real fact is that Libya is now wrapped up in a civil war, as we had foreseen, and the UN could do nothing to avoid it, other than its own Secretary General sprinkling the fire with a good dose of fuel.

Why is the effort to present the rebels as prominent members of society demanding bombing by the US and NATO in order to kill Libyans? Some day, we shall know the truth, through persons such as the political science professor from the University of Benghazi who, with such eloquence, tells of the terrible experience that killed [many], destroyed homes, left millions of persons without jobs and forced them to emigrate.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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