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NATO’s fascist war

Fidel Castro Ruz | 02.04.2011 19:20 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.”

Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days.



NATO’s fascist war

by Fidel Castro Ruz, Cubadebate, 29 March 2011


You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.”

Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days.

Almost 75 years to the day have passed since then, but nothing that has happened over the last 75 centuries, or even 75 millenniums of human life on our planet can compare.

Sometimes it seems that those of us who serenely voice our opinions on these issues are exaggerating. I dare say that we have actually been naive to assume that we all should be aware of the deception or colossal ignorance that humanity has been dragged into.

In 1936 there was an intense clash between two systems and ideologies of more or less equal military power.

The arms back then seemed more like toys compared with today’s weapons. Humanity’s survival was not threatened despite the destructive power and the locally lethal force deployed. Entire cities and even nations could have been virtually destroyed. But never was the human race, in its totality, at risk of being exterminated several times over for the stupid and suicidal power developed by modern science and technology.

With these current realities in mind, it is embarrassing to read the continuous news reports on the use of powerful laser-guided rockets with 100% accuracy, fighter-bombers that go twice the speed of light, potent explosives that blow apart uranium-hardened metals that have an everlasting effect on the inhabitants and their descendants.

Cuba stated its position regarding the internal situation in Libya at the meeting in Geneva. Without hesitating, Cuba defended the idea of a political solution to the conflict in Libya and was categorically opposed to any foreign military intervention.

In a world where the alliance between the United States and the developed capitalist powers of Europe increasingly take hold of the people’s resources and fruits of their labor, any honest citizen, whatever their standpoint to the government, would be opposed to a foreign military intervention in their country.

But most absurd about the current situation is the fact that before the brutal war broke out in Northern Africa, in another region of the world, nearly 10 000 kilometers away, a nuclear accident had occurred in one of the most populated areas of the world following a tsunami caused by a 9.0 earthquake, which has already cost a hard-working nation like Japan nearly 30 000 lives. Such accident would have not occurred 75 years before.

In Haiti, a poor and underdeveloped country, a nearly 7.0 quake according to the Richter scale, caused over 300 000 deaths, countless people wounded and hundreds of thousands harmed.

However, what was terribly tragic in Japan was the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant, whose consequences are still to be assessed.

I will only recall some of the main stories published by the news agencies:

ANSA.- Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is releasing “extremely high and potentially lethal radiations,” said Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the US nuclear entity.

EFE.- The nuclear threat stemming from the serious situation at a Japanese plant, following the earthquake, has triggered security revisions in atomic plants around the world and has made some countries paralyze their plans.

Reuters.- Japan’s devastating earthquake and deepening nuclear crisis could result in losses of up to $200 billion for Japanese economy, but the global impact remains hard to gauge.

EFE.- The deterioration of one reactor after another at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear center continued to feed fears of a pending nuclear disaster as desperate attempts to control a radioactive leak did nothing to provide even a glimmer of hope.

AFP.- Japan´s Emperor Akihito expressed concern about the unpredictable character of the nuclear crisis hitting Japan following the quake and tsunami that killed thousands of people and left 500 000 homeless. New quake reported in the Tokyo area.

There are reports talking about even more concerning issues.

Some refer to the presence of toxic radioactive iodine in Tokyo’s drinking water, which doubles the tolerable amount that can be consumed by the smallest children in the Japanese capital. One of these reports says that the stocks of bottled water are shrinking in Tokyo, a city located in a prefecture at more than 200 kilometers from Fukushima.

This series of circumstances poses a dramatic situation on our world.

I can express freely my views on the war in Libya.
I do not share political or religious views with the leader of that country. I am a Marxist-Leninist and a follower of Marti, as I have already said.

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

Never, a large or small country, in this case with only 5 million inhabitants, was the victim of such a brutal attack by the air force of a militaristic organization with thousands of fighter-bombers, more than 100 submarines, nuclear aircraft carriers, and sufficient arsenal to destroy the planet many times over. Our species had never encountered this situation and there had been nothing similar 75 years ago, when the Nazi bombers attacked targets in Spain.

Now, however, the criminal and discredited NATO will write a ”beautiful” little story about its “humanitarian” bombing.
If Gaddafi honors the traditions of his people and decides to fight to the last breath, as he has promised, together with the Libyans who are facing the worst bombing a country has ever suffered, NATO and its criminal projects will sink into the mire of shame.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

More than 50 years ago, when the United States killed more than a hundred Cubans with the explosion of merchant ship “La Coubre” our people proclaimed ”Patria o Muerte.” (Homeland or Death). They have fulfilled this, and have always been determined to keep their word.

“Anyone who tries to seize Cuba,” said the most glorious fighter in our history-”will only gather the dust of her soil soaked in blood.”

I beg you to excuse the frankness with which I address the issue.

Fidel Castro Ruz
- Homepage: http://en.cubadebate.cu/reflections-fidel/2011/03/29/natos-fascist-war/

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NATO commander: Al-Qaeda among Libya rebels

02.04.2011 19:42

Metro, 30 March 2011
Metro, 30 March 2011

Daily Telegraph, 30 March 2011
Daily Telegraph, 30 March 2011


NATO commander: Al-Qaeda among Libya rebels


[propaganda alert]

compiled by Cem Ertür

30 March 2011




1) NATO commander: Libyan rebel forces may have been infiltrated by al-Qaeda fighters (29 March 2011)

2) Obama: Failure to take military action against Libya would have carried a far greater price for America (28 March 2011)

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 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8414583/Libya-al-Qaeda-among-Libya-rebels-Nato-chief-fears.html


Al-Qaeda among Libya rebels, NATO chief warns (*)

by Robert Winnett, and Duncan Gardham, Daily Telegraph, 30 March 2011


Libyan rebel forces may have been infiltrated by al-Qaeda fighters, [...] [NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) James Stavridis] has warned. [...]

While the [Libyan] opposition's leadership appeared to be "responsible men and women" fighting the Gaddafi regime, Admiral Stavridis said, "we have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al Qaeda, Hizbollah, we've seen different things." [...]

William Hague, the [British] Foreign Secretary, sought to play down the concerns, welcoming a document from opposition leaders backing the creation of a free democracy in Libya. He said that there was a greater risk of terrorist threats if Britain and other countries did not intervene. But, Mr Hague said: " [...] Of course, there is a danger, if things go wrong in the region on a sustained basis, there could be opportunities for terrorism."



(*) title of the print edition


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 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-address-nation-libya


Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya

The White House website, 28 March 2011


Mindful of the risks and costs of military action, we are naturally reluctant to use force to solve the world’s many challenges. But when our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. [...] So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. [...]

As Commander-in-Chief, I have no greater responsibility than keeping this country safe. [...] I’ve made it clear that I will never hesitate to use our military swiftly, decisively, and unilaterally when necessary to defend our people, our homeland, our allies and our core interests. That's why we’re going after al Qaeda wherever they seek a foothold.

[US President Barack Obama, televised address to the nation on Libya, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., 28 March 2011]


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related link:


The conquest of Africa: NATO wages war on third continent

by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, 31 March 2011

 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24057

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propaganda alerts:


UK minister: Britain at risk of a new Lockerbie

by Cem Ertür, 911 Blogger, 26 March 2011

 http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-26/uk-minister-britain-risk-new-lockerbie



The wars on Iraq and Libya: Front pages from 2003 and 2011

by Cem Ertür, 911 Blogger, 21 March 2011

 http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-20/wars-iraq-and-libya-front-pages-2003-and-2011



Obama to Qaddafi: Comply with UN resolution or face military action

by Cem Ertür, 911 Blogger, 19 March 2011

 http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-18/obama-qaddafi-comply-un-resolution-or-face-military-action



British Army ready for Libya mission at 24 hours’ notice

by Cem Ertür, 911 Blogger, 6 March 2011

 http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-05/british-army-ready-libya-mission-24-hours-notice



UK Prime Minister Cameron: We will use military force to free Libya

by Cem Ertür, 911 Blogger, 2 March 2011

 http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-01/uk-prime-minister-cameron-we-will-use-military-force-free-libya


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Cem Ertür
- Homepage: http://911blogger.com/news/2011-03-30/nato-commander-al-qaeda-among-libya-rebels


I am a Marxist-Leninist and a follower of Marti

02.04.2011 21:12

Enough said. Sounds like a communist.

paul


Pure and Simple, Nato's Aggression Against Libya is on the Fascist Side.

02.04.2011 22:08

NUREMBURG TRIALS: (1945-46)

The U.S. Judge Jackson who chaired the Nuremburg Trials, wrote into International Law that the Planning and Doing of Aggressive War is the Supreme Internaitonal Crime on the planet earth, as it actuates all other crimes High, Low, Big, and Small, in a chain reaction of events throughout the globe. He further says that it is the supreme international crime on the planet whether Germany does it or the U.S.A. does it.

The U.S. Constitution says that all international treaties signed on to by the Consititution are to be treated as the supreme laws of the land. This shows that nationally and internationally since the second world war, the U.S. Imperialist system has been committing the highest worst war crimes on the planet and actuating all the poverty, pollution, disease, plunder of resources and death to air, land, and water, as also the plants, animals, and peoples.

What for, well for private profits based on polluted greed, and worst sort war crimes, not on the mutually benificial trade necessary for a planned world economy. It is not idle science behind the slogan and practice of " Workers of the world, Unite!! That is the science of the new foreign policy globally, and must be upheld by each nation and country to make sure the new socialist society takes place with mutually beneficial results for all peoples. That end aggressive war as any nations foreign policy, and the millenia aggressive wars as enslavers, Feudal-Empires, and Imperialist bourgeois empires.

This new millenium needs a new way forward and that anti-fascist way is to follow the liberation path of the anti-fascist fighters which sets the ending of aggressive war as the collective agree causing liberation of the matter-in-motion. For the First Canadian Division that way is not other than scrapping the war machine, and its manufactury and electing woman equally, restoring the matriarchy thus doubling democracy, and ending empires and their ridiculous unending pollution for money.

Re-tool the entire industrial revolution to the renewables such as wind, tidal, and solar power and get out of the pollution of fossil fuels which is killing the planets oxygen supply. Wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity is more power than society can use and to re-tool to that will save this planets life.

We must cancel completely all Atomic Nuclear power plants and Nuclear weapons for they portend the destruction of all life on the planet earth. That is the worlds worst way to start the new millenium. NATO should be scrapped and re-cycled to end its unjust wars, and illegal violence. It has adopted the nazis-fascist discredited military methods of 1) might makes right, 2) unilateralism, 3) Pre-emptive strikes.

Oppose NATO's lying methods of killing Libya to save Libya. That Nazis double think has nothing to do with humanitarianism, and everything to do with massacre and plunder of Libya's sweet crude to ownership and control of the U.S. Imperialist Oil monopolies. When doing humanity and huwomany first send the working class, and that way to improve living and working conditions for the worlds' peoples. Workers of the world, Unite!! Study the anti-fascist covenants such as the UN Charter, the world court of the hague, the Geneva Conventions of war, the Nuremburg Trials and put an end to aggressive wars for ever, to usher in the era of peace on earth and good will to the living world forever.

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