Already some, like neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz, an architect of the Iraqi genocide, are advocating for such a “pro-active” approach. Sen. John Kerry, another pro-imperialist politician, is calling for sanctions, despite the horrific toll such a policy took on the Iraqi people during the 1990s.

Such threats must be absolutely rejected by progressive people. For one, the West would love to get boots on the ground in the region, with which they could influence and pressure the emerging Arab revolution. Secondly, these measures would be perceived as, and amount to, acts of war. The “peacekeeping” missions of the United States in Somalia and Yugoslavia were nothing other than bloody and destructive wars that widened conflict instead of solving it. Ask the people’s movements in Haiti or Palestine if the United Nation’s blue-helmeted occupations are any better.

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Shoenman: You know sanctions are an act of war. The function of these sanctions whether directed against Libya or Iraq or for that matter against Iran. The same sanctions are being directed against Iran as we speak. Their purpose is to facilitate Western industrial control of the resources of the region by cutting off the population from access to needed exchange of goods and material. They impose a political agenda on people who are in revolt against those very same conditions. The intervention in Libya is a godsend for imperialism. Imperialism has been thrown on its heels by this mass uprising. It is the entering of the masses on this historic stage and country after country in the Arab regions and in North Africa. The intervention in Libya is their means of reestablishing colonial control by whatever name. We have to be very clear about this.

Press TV: So you say this is a godsend for US imperialism. Where do you see this ending up, and will Libya if Gaddafi were to step down not be a free country? Would they just replace him with another autocratic ruler?

Schoenman: Well of course they would. The reason I say the mobilization of public opinion against Gaddafi is a godsend for imperialism is because Gaddafi has the image in the minds of large number of peoples because of decades past of being an anti-imperial voice. Consequently, by virtue of the fact they are ascribing to Gaddafi a brutal suppression of his people it gives them a cover for an open colonial intervention. I put the question to you.

Do you believe that the regime in the United States, which has killed 2 million people in Iraq, and over a half a million people in Afghanistan, which is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths of civilians in Pakistan gives a damn about the fate of the Libyan people? Do you think they are concerned about 15 million people being killed by Muammar Gaddafi? Is it plausible that as we speak genocidal operations of the United States with their drone attacks, with their CIA killings and their targeted assassinations across the entire region are suddenly hand on heart and morally upset about the Libyan people? Did they ever raise their voice about the fate of the Libyan people until they rebelled? Never.

Their intervention is not because of the Libyan people’s aspirations for freedom and self-determination, and for social ownership of the means of production. That’s what the oil workers in Libya are demanding. It’s control over their oil for national well being. The United States, Great Britain, Germany and Italy–Berlusconi who uses the money he makes out of Libyan oil to create a national harem for himself is not interested in the well-being of the Libyan people. Like Gaddafi, his interests are below his waist.

AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST RISE UP AGAINST US INTERVENTION OF LIBYA .
People must expose the closet zionists and ‘progressives’ who are helping war criminals at the White house and State department to invade Libya. Expose the Judeofascists who are pushing for NO FLY ZONE, like in Iraq, which led to Bombing of that country, 1.5 millions deaths, and soft partition of the country.

Americans must rise up now to destroy zionism/imperialism and US government front, the ‘progressive’ camp.

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how far to go to an edequate-viable-effective passivity? well, for me, hunger to death, if necessary, wld be just fine.

but i am not an american. being 80 yrs old is verrry easy for me to die.
however, my wife wld never let me do that. she needs her driver, floor scrubber, cook, washer, and the like.
besides, i’d die from her screams much sooner than from hunger.

the other day she asked me, Bob, [she can't pronounce my name] do u know what feb 14th is? i said, I don’t know, dear! Whhaat?, said my smallhead! Are u once again gonna forget to get me the valentine card??!!

i said, ok, ok. u can get the card or sex, but not both. so, choose wisely! and she chose what?
seriously now: i don’t send out cards– i am thus saving at least one tree? tnx
btw? anyone sending out cards, deserves a gaddawful for hisher ruler.

“god bless america” = a proclamation that no matter what u.s. system of rule does to ‘aliens’ and domestics, it cannot do a single wrong.

an individual may make mistakes and be sacrificed to the altar of american infallibility— not ever the governance!

there is only one god and not two or more. the god is american. the god is one; the planet is one; it belongs to god!

did anyone, who casts the widest look possible, ever thought for a second that american god and hisher supremacists wld be satisfied with just a quarter of ‘their’ planet? tnx

i never thought even fleetingly that islam wld side with justice, peace, caring-sharing society.

in millennia or eons to come, ulema-imams-beys-amirs may put on a human face, but not today.

this evaluation is valid for other cultic ‘sciences’; which declare selves infallible or a priori true for all time. tnx

at the time i did not know this; nevertheless, wrote that i expected army wld side with fascists.
and not to mention world supremacists [fascists, if u like].

they have money [thus can buy killers], tanks, jets, etc. and above else brutality to stop any movement, protest?

i wonder if passive, but dogged massive resistance, involving at least 70% of pop wld help?

in u.s., one wld need at least 1oomn adults to passively resist present govt in order to evince a change for better! tnx