Interesting Writer

Matthias Chang - Malaysian acdemic.



http://futurefastforward.com/images/stories/MalaysianUpdates/Malaysian_Mainstream_Media_Coverage_of_Libya.pdf



http://www.futurefastforward.com/component/content/article/5909

The West is the Problem

The problem of the Middle East and Libya is the West.

The nations of the Middle East are products of the imperial powers after WW2.

So is Libya, a product of Italian Imperialism.

The problems we have today in the Middle East are hangovers from that era.

The oil war in Libya will desend into either anarhy, chaos and murder or NATO will ocupy the land to ensure the oil companies get the Libyan oil.

Either way we will have to pay for it all.











http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4967572



One of the most popular books among American military officers serving in Iraq is Seven Pillars of Wisdom — the accounts of T. E. Lawrence, the British colonel who rallied Arab tribal leaders during World War I. Lawrence wrote about unconventional warfare and the people of the region.

A new exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum features a long-lost map of the Middle East drafted by Lawrence and presented to the British cabinet in 1918. It provides an alternative to present-day borders in the region, taking into account local Arab sensibilities rather than the European colonial considerations that were dominant at the time.

For historians, Lawrence's map is an exercise in what ifs: He included a separate state for the Kurds, similar to that demanded by Iraq's Kurds today. Lawrence groups together the people in present-day Syria, Jordan and parts of Saudi Arabia into another state based on tribal patterns and commercial routes.

The map also envisions a separate state called Palestine — Lawrence knew the British were considering the creation of a homeland for the Jews.

And he saw no reason to separate Iraq's Sunnis and the Shiites — an issue that continues to divide that country today.

Libya, Africom and the Oil

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23605




"Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky


Global Research, March 9, 2011

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Part II


Click to consult Part I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya?



The geopolitical and economic implications of a US-NATO led military intervention directed against Libya are far-reaching.

Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.

"Operation Libya" is part of the broader military agenda in the Middle East and Central Asia which consists in gaining control and corporate ownership over more than sixty percent of the world's reserves of oil and natural gas, including oil and gas pipeline routes.

"Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, possess between 66.2 and 75.9 percent of total oil reserves, depending on the source and methodology of the estimate." (See Michel Chossudovsky, The "Demonization" of Muslims and the Battle for Oil, Global Research, January 4, 2007) .

With 46.5 billion barrels of proven reserves, (10 times those of Egypt), Libya is the largest oil economy in the African continent followed by Nigeria and Algeria (Oil and Gas Journal). In contrast, US proven oil reserves are of the order of 20.6 billion barrels (December 2008) according to the Energy Information Administration. U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Reserves)


The most recent estimates place Libya's oil reserves at 60 billion barrels. Its gas reserves at 1,500 billion m3. Its production has been between 1.3 and 1.7 million barrels a day, well below its productive capacity. Its longer term objective is three million b/d and a gas production of 2,600 million cubic feet a day, according to figures of the National Oil Corporation (NOC).

The (alternative) BP Statistical Energy Survey (2008) places Libya's proven oil reserves at 41.464 billion barrels at the end of 2007 which represents 3.34 % of the world's proven reserves. (Mbendi Oil and Gas in Libya - Overview).


Oil is the "Trophy" of US-NATO led Wars

An invasion of Libya under a humanitarian mandate would serve the same corporate interests as the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. The underlying objective is to take possession of Libya's oil reserves, destabilize the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and eventually privatize the country's oil industry, namely transfer the control and ownership of Libya's oil wealth into foreign hands.

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) is ranked 25 among the world’s Top 100 Oil Companies. (The Energy Intelligence ranks NOC 25 among the world’s Top 100 companies. - Libyaonline.com)

The planned invasion of Libya, which is already underway is part of the broader "Battle for Oil". Close to 80 percent of Libya’s oil reserves are located in the Sirte Gulf basin of Eastern Libya. (See map below)

Libya is a Prize Economy. "War is good for business". Oil is the trophy of US-NATO led wars.

Wall Street, the Anglo-American oil giants, the US-EU weapons producers would be the unspoken beneficiaries of a US-NATO led military campaign directed against Libya.

Libyan oil is a bonanza for the Anglo-American oil giants. While the market value of crude oil is currently well in excess of 100 dollars a barrel, the cost of Libyan oil is extremely low, as low as $1.00 a barrel (according to one estimate). As one oil market expert commented somewhat cryptically:

"At $110 on the world market, the simple math gives Libya a $109 profit margin." (Libya Oil, Libya Oil One Country's $109 Profit on $110 Oil, EnergyandCapital.com March 12, 2008)

Foreign Oil Interests in Libya

Foreign oil companies operating prior to the insurrection in Libya include France's Total, Italy's ENI, The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), British Petroleum, the Spanish Oil consortium REPSOL, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, Hess, Conoco Phillips.

Of significance, China plays a central role in the Libyan oil industry. The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) had a workforce of some 400 employees. The total Chinese workforce in Libya was of the order of 30,000.

Eleven percent (11%) of Libyan oil exports are channelled to China. While there are no figures on the size and importance of CNPC's production and exploration activities, there are indications that they are sizeable.

More generally, China's presence in North Africa is considered by Washington to constitute an intrusion. From a geopolitical standpoint, China is an encroachment. The military campaign directed against Libya is intent upon excluding China from North Africa.

Also of importance is the role of Italy. ENI, the Italian oil consortium puts out 244,000 barrels of gas and oil, which represents almost 25 percent of Libya's total exports. ( Sky News: Foreign oil firms halt Libyan operations, February 23, 2011).

Among US companies in Libya, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) decided barely 6 months ago (October 2010) not to renew their oil and gas exploration licenses in Libya. (Why are Chevron and Oxy leaving Libya?: Voice of Russia, October 6, 2010). In contrast, in November 2010, Germany's oil company, R.W. DIA E signed a far-reaching agreement with Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) involving exploration and production sharing. AfricaNews - Libya: German oil firm signs prospecting deal - The AfricaNews,

The financial stakes as well as "the spoils of war" are extremely high. The military operation is intent upon dismantling Libya's financial institutions as well as confiscating billions of dollars of Libyan financial assets deposited in Western banks.

It should be emphasised that Libya's military capabilities, including its air defense system are weak.




Libya Oil Concessions


Redrawing the Map of Africa

Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa. The objective of US-NATO interference is strategic: it consists in outright theft, in stealing the nation's oil wealth under the disguise of a humanitarian intervention.

This military operation is intent upon establishing US hegemony in North Africa, a region historically dominated by France and to lesser extent by Italy and Spain.

With regard to Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, Washington's design is to weaken the political links of these countries to France and push for the installation of new political regimes which have a close rapport with the US. This weakening of France is part of a US imperial design. It is a historical process which goes back to the wars in Indochina.

US-NATO intervention leading to the eventual formation of a US puppet regime is also intent upon excluding China from the region and edging out China's National Petroleum Corp (CNPC). The Anglo-American oil giants including British Petroleum which signed an exploration contract in 2007 with the Ghadaffi government are among the potential "beneficiaries" of the proposed US-NATO military operation.

More generally, what is at stake is the redrawing of the map of Africa, a process of neo-colonial redivision, the scrapping of the demarcations of the 1884 Berlin Conference, the conquest of Africa by the United States in alliance with Britain, in a US-NATO led operation.

The colonial redivision of Africa. 1913

Libya: Strategic Saharan Gateway to Central Africa

Libya has borders with several countries which are within France's sphere of influence, including Algeria, Tunisia, Niger and Chad.

Chad is potentially an oil rich economy. ExxonMobil and Chevron have interests in Southern Chad including a pipeline project. Southern Chad is a gateway into the Darfur region of Sudan, which is also strategic in view of its oil wealth.

China has oil interests in both Chad and Sudan. The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) signed a farreaching agreement with the Chad government in 2007.

Niger is strategic to the United States in view of its extensive reserves of uranium. At present, France dominates the uranium industry in Niger through the French nuclear conglomerate Areva, formerly known as Cogema. China also has a stake in Niger's uranium industry.

More generally, the Southern border of Libya is strategic for the United States in its quest to extend its sphere of influence in Francophone Africa, a vast territory extending from North Africa to Central and Western Africa. Historically this region was part of France and Belgium's colonial empires, the borders of which were established at the Berlin Conference of 1884.



Source www.hobotraveler.com

The US played a passive role at the 1884 Berlin Conference. This new 21st Century redivision of the African continent, predicated on the control over oil, natural gas and strategic minerals (cobalt, uranium, chromium, manganese, platinum and uranium) largely supports dominant Anglo-American corporate interests.

US interference in North Africa redefines the geopolitics of an entire region. It undermines China and overshadows the influence of the European Union.

This new redivision of Africa not only weakens the role of the former colonial powers (including France and Italy) in North Africa. it is also part of a broader process of displacing and weakening France (and Belgium) over a large part of the African continent.

US puppet regimes have been installed in several African countries which historically were in the sphere of influence of France (and Belgium), including The Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. Several countries in West Africa (including Côte d'Ivoire) are slated to become US proxy states.

The European Union is heavily dependent on the flow of Libyan oil. 85 percent of its oil is sold to European countries. In the case of a war with Libya, the supply of petroleum to Western Europe could be further disrupted, largely affecting Italy, France and Germany. Thirty percent of Italy's oil and 10 percent of its gas are imported from Libya. Libyan gas is fed through the Greenstream pipeline in the Mediterranean (See map below).

The implications of these potential disruptions are far-reaching. They also have a direct bearing on the relationship between the US and the European Union.


Greenstream pipeline linking Libya to Italy


Concluding Remarks

The mainstream media through massive disinformation is complicit in justifying a military agenda which, if carried out, would have devastating consequences not only for the Libyan people: the social and economic impacts would be felt Worldwide.

There are at present three distinct war theaters in the broader Middle East Central Asian region: Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq. In the case of an attack on Libya, a fourth war theater would be opened up in North Africa, with the risk of military escalation.

Public opinion must take cognizance of the hidden agenda behind this alleged humanitarian undertaking, heralded by the heads of state and heads of government of NATO countries as a "Just War". The Just War theory in both its classical and contemporary versions upholds war as a "humanitarian operation". It calls for military intervention on ethical and moral grounds against "rogue states" and "Islamic terrorists". The Just war theory demonizes the Gaddafi regime while providing a humanitarian mandate to US-NATO military intervention.

The heads of state and heads of government of NATO countries are the architects of war and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. In an utterly twisted logic, they are heralded as the voices of reason, as the representatives of the "international community".

Realities are turned upside down. A humanitarian intervention is launched by war criminals in high office, who are the unchallenged guardians of the Just War theory.

Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo,... Civilian casualties in Pakistan resulting from US drone attacks on towns and villages ordered by president Obama, are not front page news, nor are the 2 million civilian deaths in Iraq.

There is no such thing as a "Just War". The history of US imperialism should be understood. The 2000 Report of the Project of the New American Century entitled "Rebuilding Americas' Defenses" calls for the implementation of a long war, a war of conquest. One of the main components of this military agenda is: to "Fight and decisively win in multiple, simultaneous theater wars".

"Operation Libya" is part of that process. It is another theater in the Pentagon's logic of "simultaneous theater wars".

The PNAC document faithfully reflects the evolution of US military doctrine since 2001. The US plans to be involved simultaneously in several war theaters in different regions of the World.

While heralding the need to protect America (i.e. "National Security"), the PNAC report does spell out why these multiple theater wars are required. What purpose do they serve. Are they an instrument of peace? The usual humanitarian justification is not even mentioned.

What is the purpose of America's military roadmap?

Libya is targeted because it is one among several remaining countries outside America's sphere of influence, which fail to conform to US demands. Libya is a country which has been selected as part of a military "road map" which consists of "multiple simultaneous theater wars". In the words of former NATO Commander Chief General Wesley Clark:

"in the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.... (Wesley Clark, Winning Modern Wars, p. 130).

LIBYAN MEDIA WAR FOR OIL - EXPOSED

YOU WANT THE TRUTH ?


YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH.


YOU ARE A MEDIA SLAVE.


KNOW YOUR PLACE.



http://truthfrequencynews.com/?p=451


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98JDKB-Qmxs



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Libya, China and WW3

You think things are bad, they just got worse ;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE1BA85atic


The war in Libya is an attempt by Africom to expand its reach into Africa to check Chinese expansion on the continent, and it was Libya and Gaddafi who over recent years who has blocked the expansion of Africom ;


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command


The attack on Libya is an attempt to topple the primary obstacle to the spread of US power across Africa.


Now China is sending its navy off the coast of Libya to protect its Lebensraum and investments in Africa and its precious oil exports from Africa.


Whilst everyone is watching a few Al Qaeda idiots being protected by the US and UK oil companies, WW3 could be about to begin.


Now we know why Obama will not relinquish power to NATO, why there are no declared public war aims, nor any exit strategy. They are all secret so as to ensure the real motive behind this war is obscured.

This is Africoms war - an attempt to bring down Gaddafi and allow Africom to begin its plan to check Chinese expansion into Africa and for the US to reassert control over African resources.

This is now a war between two Empires, China and the US.

George Galloway and Libya

I despise George Galloways politics, but you have to hand it to him, he sure knows how to rip a Corporate Media talking head a new one in an studio interview ;


Link Here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTcc--fIHUQ&feature=player_embedded#at=35

Ron Paul Speaks - Libya

Ron Paul speaks on Libya ;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC07ykFMXyM&feature=player_embedded

Libya and Regime Change in the UK

What we are witnessing in Libya is the latest Oil Grab of the Neo-Imperialist New World Order disguised as 'Gun Boat Humanitarianism'.

The attacks on Libya are attacks on a sovereign nation state.

They are war crimes.

The 'rebels' in Libya are not 'rebels' they are Al Qaeda terrorists who are seeking to remove Gadaffi and impose an Islamist government in Libya and then use the Libyan oil as a weapon of assymetric warfare against the West.

The fact that only a few months ago Cameron eviscerated our armed forces with his defence cuts, and now the fool wants the RAF to fight two wars at once in Libya and Afghanistan, proves he is a puppet doing as he is told by the US Military-Industrial Block.

These are the actions of either a maniac or a fool.

Our armed services have been denied money and funds by this corrupt government so the bankers that fund the Tory Party can carry on pouring our stolen tax payers wealth into the Tory Party to get it elected aty the next election.

As for the attacks on Libya to stop 'foreign mercenaries' attacking the Libyan people, its a pity the US didnt stop the 'foreign mercenaries' from Blackwater and other private security companies from slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people when they were allowed to rampage outside the law in Iraq.

A mercenary is only a mercenary it seems when they are not working for the US government.

This is simply a war for oil.

Note that Obama did not assist this 'war' as only BP and British oil companies are in Libya, if they had been US oil companies the marines would have been in Libya weeks ago.

Now Obama has revealed the truth about him being a crypto-Muslim, note that he is fighting to defend Al Qaeda in Libya, not fighting against them.

The corporate media are drumming the wars whilst the British public are seeing through the lies.

Even on the Daily Mial comments section, the readers are attacking this oil grab.

The British people have woken up.

They see Cameron for what he is - A PUPPET OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER - and now they are demanding not regime change in Libya, but regime change in Britain.

YOU IDIOT CAMERON - no fly zone = an invasion

The No Fly Zone when it was imposed on Iraq cost a billion pounds a year to impose.

We should not be involved in foreign wars - this is an INVASION of Libyan territory if a single British plane over Libyan air space.

The No Fly Zone will not work anyway - its an idiotic plan.

Gadaffi will win as he has tanks and artillery and infantry.

He doesnt need planes to bomb the rebels, ground troops can do the job just as easy.

The rebels do not have anti-tank weapons, and unless the US is going to give the Al Qaeda terrorists in Libya who are the 'rebels' anti-tank weapons ( which they did with Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan) then the rebels are finished.

Yet again we see that Al CIAeda is doing the US sand Britains dirty work for them by giving the US and Britain a pretext to invade Libya and steal Libyan oil.

This is an invasion, not a no fly zone.

This is the New World Order undertaking another insane hubristic invasion of another oil rich nation.