Mathaba.net http://www.mathaba.net/ tells the unknown story (unknown in America, that is) of Libya’s severe oppression — first under the genocidal Italian Fascists, and then through the exploitation by American oil companies and the U.S. military. The Libyans were finally liberated by Muammar Qadhafi’s Revolution in September 1969.
Just as with Fidel Castro, another great leader who refuses to grovel before the American Beast, the truly evil CIA has been trying to murder Qadhafi for many years.
They’ve tried to infiltrate teams of assassins into Libya, they’ve tried to poison his food, they even tried poisoned darts disguised as desert flies!
Unable to get him in any sneaky way, the exasperated U.S. government finally tried to murder him with an airstrike in 1986. Even that failed.
But at least the heroic United States Air Force can congratulate itself on one small victory: it managed to brutally murder Qadhafi’s little two-year-old daughter.
Meanwhile, reciting his lines in an act of classic All-American Hypocrisy, a jellybean-popping Ronald Reagan called Qadhafi “The most dangerous man in the world.”
Say goodnight, Ronald. It’s bedtime for Bonzo.
Somnolent bimbo though he was, however, Ronald McDonald Reagan actually did have a point there. (Besides the one on top of his head.) Freedom is dangerous. Truth is dangerous. And when one of the slaves breaks free and starts telling the truth in defiance of the Imperial Will of the world’s evil Master, that ex-slave is setting a dangerously good example for all the remaining slaves.
Here’s a basic rule of thumb for international politics: whenever the terrorist U.S. military/government spends years going out of its way to murder some national leader, it is always because that leader is doing something very right.
And indeed, Qadhafi is. Since the 1969 revolution, vast improvements in housing, education, medicine and agriculture have been made by the people of Libya, and the literacy rate has increased tenfold.
Mathaba.net also makes available The Green Book which contains Muammar Al-Qadhafi’s actual political philosophy — as opposed to what the ever-lying U.S./Israeli propaganda claims he says. The son of wandering desert Bedouins, Qadhafi has been one the more inspiring opponents of American Imperialism in the last few decades.
“There is a big difference between revolution and instigating or stimulating violence and trouble. On the contrary, revolution is against terrorism and against violence. What we are talking about is a green revolution. A green revolution is what I mean — cultivating peaceful relations with the world’s democracies, to foster a peaceful and democratic transformation towards democracy.”
— Muammar Qadhafi
Directly as a result of Qadhafi’s influence, women in Libya have been legally emancipated to a higher degree than in any other Moslem nation. Protection of the rights and dignity of women has been an important part of the Libyan Revolution from the beginning.
Muammar Qadhafi supported the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, and he supported Nelson Mandela from the beginning in his struggle against racist apartheid. Mandela and Qadhafi are close political allies.
The vast majority of people in Libya are of course Islamic. Yet in spite of the vicious provocations of both American and Israeli terrorists, the ideals of Qadhafi and the best Libyan people remain those of racial and religious tolerance.
Naturally Qadhafi and Libyans are sympathetic to the severely persecuted Palestinian people, and are therefore necessarily anti-Israel. But being anti-Israel does not mean you have to make the mistake of condemning all Jews for the crimes of the terrorist Zionists. Being anti-Israel simply means having basic human moral values.
As in any country, the best Libyans are neither anti-Jewish nor anti-Christian. Like the Palestinian people, the Libyan people know all too well what it’s like to be the victims of state terrorism. They are therefore zealously against it — whether it is the arrogant, racist terrorism of Israel, America, South Africa under apartheid, Turkey or any other genocidal monster.
A prime example: while certain other traditional victims of American terrorism remained hypocritically silent and indifferent, Libya and Qadhafi had the integrity to denounce the American/NATO terrorism of Yugoslavian people in 1999. This was in spite of the fact that Yugoslavia is primarily Orthodox Christian, and most Moslem nations, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan being prime examples, blindly supported the Moslem Albanians and Bosnians out of religious prejudice.
With Qadhafi’s leadership, the Libyan people have created one of the better societies in this oppressed world. That’s why they’re on the U.S. government’s hit list. The evil Imperial world ruler is always threatened when any nation sets too good an example for the others.
Principles of the Green Charter International
http://www.mathaba.net/gci/
“The Green Charter International was formed to link men and women around the world who wish to achieve, promote and defend the true Human Rights and freedoms of this new age, the era of the masses...”
“The rights of Man, viceregent of God on earth, cannot be the gift of a person nor exist in societies where exploitation and tyranny are practised, and can only be achieved by the victory of the popular masses over their oppressors and the disappearance of regimes which annihilate freedom.”
“Human rights cannot be guaranteed in a world where there exist governors and governed, masters and slaves, rich and poor.”
Here is a selection of paragraphs from the International Green Charter itself:
1. Democracy is the power of the people, not only the expression of the people. We declare that power belongs to the people. It is exercised directly, without intermediary or representatives in the popular congresses and the people’s committees.
2. We consider the life of the individual sacred and protect it. We forbid its alienation. Imprisonment can only be exercised against those for whom liberty constitutes a danger or a contamination of others. The aim of punishment is to renew society, to protect its human values and its interests. We proscribe punishments which attack the dignity and the integrity of the human being, such as forced labour or long-term imprisonment. We proscribe all attacks, physical or mental, on the person of the prisoner. We condemn all speculations and experiments of any kind upon prisoners. Punishment is personal and suffered by the individual following a criminal act on which it is necessarily contingent. The punishment and its consequences cannot extend to the family nor the persons close to the criminal. “One only commits evil to one’s own detriment and nobody will assume what he has not committed”.
5. We forbid clandestine action and recourse to force in all its forms, violence, terrorism and sabotage. These acts constitute a betrayal of the values and principles of the Jamahiriya, which affirms the sovereignty of the individual in the popular congresses, guaranteeing the right to express opinions publicly. We reject and condemn violence as a means of imposing ideas and opinions. We adopt democratic dialogue as the only method of debate and consider any hostile relation towards the Jamahiriya linked to a foreign instance, whatever its form, as high treason against it.
(Definition: “Jamahiriya — a society for all where all human beings are free and equal in the exercise of power and in the possession of wealth and arms.”)
10. Our judgments are based on sacred law, religion or custom, the terms of which are stable, unchangeable and for which there can be no substitute. We declare that religion is an absolute belief in the divinity and a sacred spiritual value. It is personal to each person and common to everyone. It is a direct relationship with the Creator, without intermediary. We proscribe its monopoly and its exploitation for purposes of subversion, fanaticism, sectarianism, partisan spirit and fratricidal war.
11. The Jamahiriya guarantees the right to work. It is a right and a duty for everyone, in the limits of one’s personal effort or in association with others. Everybody has the right to exercise the work of their choice. The Jamahiriya is one of partners and not one of paid employees. Ownership, the fruit of labour, is sacred and protected, it can only be attacked in the public interest and with fair compensation. The Jamahiriya is free from the slavery of salaries, stating the right of everybody over their labour and production. Only those who produce consume.
12. We are liberated from any feudalism. The land is nobody’s property. Each person has the right to exploit it and to benefit from it by labour, agriculture or animal-keeping, throughout one’s life, that of one’s heirs, and within the limits of personal effort and the satisfaction of needs.
13. We are free from any rent. A house belongs to the person who lives in it. It enjoys a sacred immunity in respect of rights of neighbourhood: “your close neighbours or distant neighbours”. The residence cannot be used to harm society.
16. The Jamahiriya is the society of goodness and of noble values. It considers ideals and human principles sacred. Its aim is a humanitarian society where aggression, war, exploitation and terrorism will be banished and where there will be no difference between great and small. All nations, all peoples, and all national communities have the right to live free, according to their options and the principles of self-determination. They have the right to establish their national entity. Minorities have the right to safeguard their entity and their heritage. The legitimate aspirations of the latter cannot be repressed. Neither can they be assimilated by force into one or several different nations or national communities.
18. We protect liberty. We defend it everywhere in the world. We support the oppressed, and encourage all peoples to confront injustice, oppression, exploitation and colonialism. We encourage them to combat imperialism, racism and fascism, in accordance with the principle of the collective struggle of peoples against the enemies of liberty.
21. We are, men or women, equal in everything which is human. The distinction of rights between men and women is a flagrant injustice which nothing justifies. We proclaim that marriage is a fair association between two equal partners. Nobody can conclude a marriage contract by constraint, nor divorce in any other way than by mutual consent or by a fair judgement. It is unfair to dispossess the children of their mother, and the mother of her home.
22. We consider servants as the slaves of modern times, enslaved by their masters. No law governs their situation, and they have no guarantee nor protection. They live under the arbitrary nature of their masters, and are victims of tyranny. They are forced, by necessity and in order to survive, to carry out work which ridicules their dignity and human feelings. For this reason, we proscribe recourse to servants in the home. The house must be maintained by its owners.
23. We are convinced that peace between nations can guarantee them prosperity, abundance and harmony. We call for an end to the trade of arms and their manufacture for purposes of exploitation. The arms industry constitutes a waste of wealth of societies, a burden on individual taxpayers, causing the spread of destruction and annihilation in the world.
24. We call for the suppression of nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons and any other means of massive extermination and destruction. We call for elimination of all the existing stocks, for the preservation of humanity from the dangers represented by the waste from nuclear power stations.
For information about Libyan society, culture and history:
Libya’s Black Day: Italian Fascist Terrorism
http://mathaba.net/info/info.htm
For information concerning American/British State terrorism against the people of Libya:
The Continuing Terror Against Libya
Sunday Times alleges Britain’s MI6 played role in Gadhaffi assassination attempt
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/liby-f15.shtml
Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie verdict politically motivated
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/lock-f07.shtml
“The guilty verdict issued on January 31 [2001] by three Scottish judges at the conclusion of the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie trial is unsound by all normal legal criteria.”
German TV exposes CIA, Mossad links to 1986 Berlin disco bombing
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/aug1998/bomb1-a27.shtml
“It may come as a shock to many Americans, all the more so given the utterly venal and lying role of the US media, but US intelligence services are well versed in the most unscrupulous and bloody methods, not excluding those that result in injury or death to Americans.”
Bibliography
The Green Book
by Muammar Al Qadhafi
The Village...the Village...the Earth...the Earth and the Suicide of the Astronaut - with Other Stories
by Muammar Al Qadhafi
Rogue State:
A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
by William Blum
Killing Hope:
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
by William Blum
The Continuing Terror Against Libya
by Fan Yew Teng
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New:
International Terrorism in the Real World
by Noam Chomsky
The Real Terror Network:
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
by Edward S. Herman
The Fire This Time:
U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf
by Ramsey Clark
Desert Slaughter:
The Imperialist War Against Iraq
by the Workers League
Western State Terrorism
Alexander George, editor; essays by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Gerry O’Sullivan and others
Terrorizing the Neighborhood:
American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
by Noam Chomsky
Pressure Drop Press, 1991
The Culture of Terrorism
by Noam Chomsky
Apocalypse 1945:
The Destruction of Dresden
by David Irving
Against Empire
by Michael Parenti
The Sword and the Dollar:
Imperialism, Revolution and the Arms Race
by Michael Parenti
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media:
Decoding Spin and Lies in Mainstream News
by Norman Solomon
Inventing Reality:
The Politics of News Media
by Michael Parenti
Manufacturing Consent:
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Deadly Deceits:
My 25 years in the CIA
by Ralph W. McGehee
War, Lies & Videotape:
How media monopoly stifles truth
edited by Lenora Foerstel; multiple authors
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