DISPATCHES FROM STEPHEN LENDMAN

The Donald outraging his critics. [CC BY-SA by Michael Vadon]

His super-wealth, demagogic style, outlandish views, support for wealth and power, and likely business as usual agenda if elected president aside, Trump so far masterfully outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outfoxed other presidential aspirants, besting professional politicians, beating them at their own dirty game.

He’s no flash-in-the-pan. He proved he’s a force to reckoned with. Polls show he’s way ahead of Republican rivals, appearing unstoppable, party bosses and media scoundrels frantic to derail his campaign, their efforts futile so far.

He appeals to voters against politics they deplore, business as usual campaigning and governance, promising change, delivering betrayal, ignoring popular needs – even though don’t expect him to change things if elected.

He didn’t become super-rich by being a nice guy. People needs aren’t his concern. US policy won’t change with him in charge – notably its permanent war agenda, corporate favoritism, scorn for social justice, and intolerance of efforts to change things.

Efforts to dent his impregnability don’t quit. Media scoundrels relentlessly attack him. Last month, New York Times editors accused him of “br(inging) his party and its politics to the brink of fascism” – ignoring police state rule under Bush and Obama, state-sponsored ruthlessness, waging war on humanity at home and abroad.

Trump’s candidacy caused “serious damage…to the country, to its reputation overseas,” Times editors absurdly claimed.  “The time to renounce (his) views was the day he entered the race,” they added – mindless of an array of deplorable Republican and Democrat aspirants all supporting endless wars, Israeli barbarism, corporate favoritism and harsh crackdowns on nonbelievers.

In late November, Washington Post editors urged Republicans “to stand up to Trump’s (so-called) Bullying,” saying:

“The growing ugliness of (his) campaign poses a challenge to us all. We have seen the likes of him before…spreading lies, appealing to fears and stoking hatred.”

“Such people are dangerous.” Post editors like their Times counterparts ignored longstanding bipartisan US wars on humanity – raping one country after another, turning US streets into battleground in Black and Latino communities, serving wealth and power interests exclusively.

Trump “lack(s) the qualifications, experience or knowledge to be president,” WaPo editors blustered. Bush I’s presidency was W’s only qualification, achieving at best a gentleman C average overall academically at Yale and Harvard, often skipping classes.

Obama was chosen solely as a front man for imperial adventurism, as well as Wall Street and other corporate interests at the expense of ordinary Americans who elected him. His only qualification was and remains following the agenda assigned him, causing more harm to more people than his predecessors.

“Republican leaders should speak up” against Trump, WaPo editors ranted. “The only way to beat a bully is to stand up to him.”

The American way involves endless global “bully(ing)” to achieve unchallenged worldwide dominance – an agenda WaPo editors wholeheartedly endorse without admitting it.

[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ast November, Wall Street Journal editors violated Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment about “not speak(ing) ill of any fellow Republican.”

They quoted Trump, calling himself “a free trader,” then blasted his criticism of the nightmarish Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), calling it a “terrible (trade) deal.”  

Journal editors claim he doesn’t understand what’s in it, mischaracterizing TPP as a new “standard for trade under freer Western rules.”

TPP is a hugely one-sided corporate giveaway, nightmarishly anti-consumer, anti-labor, anti-environmental sanity. The full text revealed last November showed it’s worse than most critics feared.

Trump’s opposition has nothing to do with it’s handing business interests a huge bonanza. He expressed concern over its failure to deal with alleged Chinese currency manipulation, even though he knows Beijing isn’t part of the deal.

On January 21, the right-wing National Review published an anti-Trump issue – an effort to derail his campaign, featuring almost two dozen neocons and other hardliners bashing his candidacy.

Editor Rick Lowry is a notorious right-wing extremist. Contributors to his anti-Trump diatribe included Glenn Beck, Cruz supporter Brent Bozell, hawkish columnist Mona Charen, neocon Project for the New American Century (PNAC) co-founder William Kristol, Fox News favorite Dana Loesch, hard-right Club for Growth president David McIntosh, former Reagan attorney general Edwin Meese, former GW Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey, and notorious right-wing extremist John Podhoretz, among others.

Campaign season is in full swing, the Iowa caucus scheduled for February 1, followed by New Hampshire’s primary on February 9. 

Regardless of individual contest outcomes, Trump’s lead looks insurmountable. He’s proved skillful in maintaining it, despite continued media flack targeting him.

ABOUT STEPHEN LENDMAN

STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."  ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

Eric Zuesse
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G. Soros [CC BY-SA by boellstiftung]

On January 21st, George Soros, who has throughout his life been passionately opposed not just to communism but also to Russia, finally stated in a Bloomberg News interview at the World Economic Forum, that the United States (and possibly the EU, but he says that the EU is in terrible economic shape itself) must now fund a new Marshall Plan for all of Europe, including, this time, even his bête noire: Russia. 

However, is he ending, or merely suspending, his lifelong war against Russia? Let’s look at the evidence, including the background for his comments. The crucial background in order to understand his statement is provided in the links here:

Previously, he had been urging both the United States and the EU to pump variously $20 billion (in some of his articles) to $50 billion (in others) more into Ukraine’s war to seize back control over Ukraine’s former regions of Crimea and of Donbass, both of which had voted overwhelmingly (75% in Crimea and over 90% in Donbass) for the democratically elected Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Obama overthrew on 20 February 2014 in a bloody staged coup whose gunmen were mainly from Ukraine’s two racist-facist or ideologically nazi parties and were all paid by the U.S. via laundered funds through the CIA. Those two regions of Ukraine are strongly pro-Russian and anti-nazi — they were anti-Nazi in World War II, and are anti-nazi today. They passionately opposed America’s coup.

However, now that the U.S.-led effort to re-arm the Ukrainian government that it had installed, and to enable them to go to war yet a second time, attempting to seize (or reabsorb) Crimea and Donbass, has failed, and U.S. President Barack Obama has thus at least temporarily given up in all but rhetoric his determination to enable Ukraine to crush those regions, George Soros is stepping back in. Soros had, himself, via his International Renaissance Fund, helped to finance the overthrow of Yanukovych. He is now urging that the U.S. (and maybe Europe) help Europe including Russia, to recover from the damages that the U.S. had imposed upon that broader Europe — imposed by means of Obama’s invasions and coups in not only Ukraine but also in the Middle East. (After all, most of the refugees into Europe come from America’s invasions of Iraq, Libya, and Syria, and from the support of jihadists there by America’s Saudi, Qatari, and UAE allies. The refugee-crisis is generated by America and its allies.) Soros says that the fleeing refugees from the Middle East into Europe will break the EU unless stopped, and that U.S. taxpayers (and maybe EU taxpayers) thus now need to fund the salvation of all of those countries which the U.S. — largely at Soros’s own urging and with his help — has all but destroyed. Perhaps he just wants Western taxpayers to bail him out.

His comment attributes, as being the precedent for his current support of a taxpayer-bailout for Europe including Russia, his prior, 1989, support of a bailout of Eastern Europe including Russia. However, at that time, he was looking for public funds to create debts that those then-communist nations would have toward Western taxpayers. His proposal was rejected, because democracy was, at that time, strong enough in the West, so that the public’s rejection caused his proposal to be politically impossible to achieve. The situation is drastically different now, after the Harvard Economics Department and George Soros guided the Russian government into a ‘capitalism’ that’s crony-capitalism or “fascism,” from which Harvard University and George Soros extracted billions in give-aways of state property from formerly communist countries that were insider-dealt to not only Russia’s and Ukraine’s (etc.) insiders, but also to America’s, including especially Soros himself (and that link is also here). That link presents the great Janine Wedel reporting that, as a result of one particular insider-rigged auction, “H.M.C. [Harvard Management Company] and Soros became significant shareholders in Novolipetsk, Russia’s second-largest steel mill, and Sidanko Oil, whose reserves exceed those of Mobil.”

Ukraine is one of the countries that was stripped this way, and it more recently was taken over by the United States, with Soros’s help, and stripped even more.

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he post-Soros, post-Obama, coup-government of Ukraine is essentially bankrupt after all of their ‘anti-corruption’ verbiage has collided with their total-corruption policies in Ukraine, just as had happened under Yeltsin in Russia, so that, notwithstanding Soros’s urgings for $20B+ of Western taxpayer funds to be contributed to that government, it simply won’t happen. Soros therefore now is urging his new proposal for a “Marshall Plan,” not only to get Eastern Europe deeper into debt to Western governments, but, perhaps, also to enable Soros’ own investments in Eastern Europe (including Russia) to turn profits for him. Only with taxpayer assistance can such investments now be made profitable.

That’s the problem with private-investor meddling in foreign policies: governments become controlled by international aristocrats.

Here is the transcript of this brief interview-segment, from a Bloomberg segment interviewing Soros, which cannot be accurately understood without reference to the links that were provided in that restatement here of his statement — those links document the reality behind what he is here asserting:

The European Union is in an existential crisis, and it needs to get out of that because of the migration problem [which] is effectively distressing the European Union — it’s falling apart, and that’s a time when you need to have a major initiative, a Marshall Plan. It’s absolutely appropriate. It’s amazing that it comes from Schaivo, who has been one of the proponents of Bundesbank orthodoxy, but I have been in favor of it all along. I was propose [ing] a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe more than twenty-five years ago [before the end of the USSR], in 1989 in Potsdam, when Potsdam was still in Eastern Germany, and I said this would be a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe including Russia, and it should be financed by the Europeans for a change, and actually led by the — representative, who started laughing, and the front of the Algemeine [Zeitung] reported that my proposal was greeted with amusement. Now I think this proposal should not be treated with amusement. This should be taken very seriously. It’s going to have a very difficult time passing, because there’s a lot of dissension now, part of the disintegration, but I think it needs public and enthusiastic support. But I think that most people know that something has gone catastrophically wrong and it has to be put right.

INTERVIEWER: Is there a danger of break-up. Last year we were worried about Greece, what should we be worried about this year?

SOROS: I think Greece is still a problem. It’s the one problem that has no solution, because it has been so messed-up that you can only muddle along. But there is no solution, and actually that problem is now coming to the boiling point again. You can see it on the face of the press, but [it] is not a major problem in the scheme of things.

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of  They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of  CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

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Hillary Clinton’s War: The Destruction of Libya and the Murder of Gaddafi

In her element: Celebrating the empire’s crimes with their unwitting perpetrators.

Hillary Clinton with Libyan soldiers in October 2011. The ‘V for victory’ gesture seems slightly misplaced at the moment. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters 

Compiled and edited by Thomas Baldwin with the grateful assistance of DeNeice Kenehan.
THIS IS A RECAPITULATION OF THIS TOPIC REPOSTED HERE IN VIEW OF THE CURRENT ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN IN WHICH HILLARY IS AGAIN THE ESTABLISHMENT’S FAVORITE, AND FORTHCOMING BENGHAZI HEARINGS.

Note:  There are literally dozens of references which relate to this subject and it is impossible to select only the “best”. But this is a good representation of good ones which tell the Libyan story and it is very ugly what the U.S. and NATO did to this prosperous democracy in Africa.  If you read enough of them you will be convinced Hillary Clinton has bloody hands. And the “emails–disclosed and undisclosed–provide a window and shine light on what really happened there.  That’s why this subject is important Mr. Sanders and you should be interested!—TB

HILLARY’S WAR: The REAL STORY about Benghazi is what happened before the bloody blowback to the interventionist western overthrow of the Libyan government, destruction of the nation and regional chaos. And it looks like Hillary’s role in this war and her relationship with her private “spy,” Sidney Blumenthal might be explored this Thursday, October 22,  by the House Benghazi investigation committee.

If it’s not then we’ll know why.  It will be opening Pandora’s Box to expose our war mongering imperialism in another concrete case.  And both political parties support those and it will show another example of how the U.S. government doesn’t give a damn about our immoral and murderous behavior around the world as long as it serves our imperialistic needs to dominate by our show of military force.  The Duopoly, driven by the Military Industrial Complex (backed by big banks and corporatists), only cares about power and money and they use “humanitarian” excuses and the establishment of “democracy” as a reason to invade another country–any country that can’t retaliate.  Any country which attempts to show independence and serving their own interests is branded as headed by a “ruthless dictatorship” and a threat to national security. And Libya serves as a perfect example along with numerous other examples. 

Hillary Clinton: “We came, we saw, he died”

Here’s what some noteworthy articles have to say:

From the reference cited:  Gowdy: Newly discovered e-mails suggest Clinton influenced by Blumenthal’s business in Libya

 “According to a letter from Chairman Trey Gowdy to Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the committee, at least once Clinton sought to aid Blumenthal’s business interests in Libya. … 

“These messages should have been made public when the State Department released Secretary Clinton’s other self-selected records on Libya and Benghazi, but there was a clear decision at the time to withhold this information from the American people and the Committee,” reads the letter. “The State Department has now made these messages available, and the Committee intends to question Secretary Clinton about them during her appearance.” 

“…At this point, Gowdy notes in his letter, Hillary forwards this to Jake Sullivan, saying that “I agree about the need to keep the attack tempo up.” Note that this exceeded the stated mission for the US and NATO in Libya, transforming it from a genocide-prevention operation to a full-blown war of regime change on Gaddafi. 

The motivation, at least as expressed to Hillary and then forwarded by her to her team, appears to be entirely related to the need to look tough for the re-election campaign. 

At one point, Blumenthal transmits the name of a CIA intelligence source to Hillary on her unsecured e-mail, which she then blithely forwarded from her private account…”

Continued at link in title above.

And from this source:  “Ripped from Hillary’s Email: French Plot to Overthrow Gaddafi and Help Itself to Libya’s Oil” –

“French intelligence plotted to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi to horn in on Libya’s oil and to provide access for French businesses.

“…The “news” in the Benghazi emails, according to the New York Times, is that, after denying it, Clinton may indeed have solicited advice from Blumenthal.

“…While the emails do raise questions about Hillary Clinton’s veracity, the real story is how French intelligence plotted to overthrow the Libyan leader in order to claim a hefty slice of Libya’s oil production and “favorable consideration” for French businesses.

“…According to the memos, in return for money and support, “the DGSE officers indicated that they expected the new government of Libya to favor French firms and national interests, particularly regarding the oil industry in Libya.” The memo says that the two leaders of the Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil and General Abdul Fatah Younis, “accepted this offer.” 

“…Another May 5 email indicates that French humanitarian flights to Benghazi included officials of the French oil company TOTAL, and representatives of construction firms and defense contractors, who secretly met with Council members and then “discreetly” traveled by road to Egypt, protected by DGSE agents. 

“…But the collapse of Libya was a particularly catastrophic event, which—as the African Union accurately predicted—sent a flood of arms and unrest into two continents.
The wars in Mali and Niger are a direct repercussion of Qaddafi’s fall, and the extremist Boko Haram in Nigeria appears to have benefited from the plundering of Libyan arms depots. Fighters and weapons from Libya have turned up in the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. And the gunmen who killed 22 museum visitors in Tunisia last March, and 38 tourists on a beach July 3, trained with extremists in Libya before carrying out their deadly attacks.”

Clinton was aware of everything the French were up to and apparently had little objection to the cold-blooded cynicism behind Paris’s policies in the region.

“…The story ends with a piece of petty gossip: Clinton wanted to take credit for Gaddafi’s fall, but the White House stole the limelight by announcing the Libyan leader’s death first.”

Continued at link in title above

From the Atlantic:  BENGHAZI WON’T STICK TO HILLARY CLINTON BUT THE DISASTROUS INTERVENTION SHOULD

“Republicans are still trying to use the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, to sink Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions. Last week, the congressional committee investigating the attacks subpoenaed Sidney Blumenthal, who sent memos on Libya to then-Secretary of State Clinton while he was both employed by the Clinton Foundation and advising businessmen angling for contracts from the country’s transitional government. Clinton herself has agreed to answer questions from the committee, though it’s unclear when the hearing will take place. 

The alleged scandals aren’t sticking—not beyond the right-wing crowd, anyway. Perhaps Republicans should choose another tack, as one aspect of Clinton’s tenure at the State Department does deserve more scrutiny: the disastrous intervention in Libya.

“We came, we saw, he died,” Clinton laughed after learning of dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s death. She’s probably less triumphant today, given that Libya is now a failing state. GOP presidential aspirant Rand Paul and the Washington Post have even, for different reasons, called it “Hillary’s war.” That’s a misnomer; she was far from alone in supporting it, and others played a similar role in the decision to topple Gaddafi. Yet some of the mistakes made in Libya fall primarily on Clinton’s shoulders.”

Continued at link in title above

HILLARY’S WAR —From Antiwar.com

The Pentagon tried to stop her – unfortunately, to no avail

by Justin Raimondo, February 02, 2015

“What’s happening in Libya today is a crime: murder, rape, looting, chaos, a war of all against all. The perpetrator, the one key person who made all this possible, is a well known personage in American politics, a former Secretary of State and the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

What Hillary Clinton did to Libya is a crime on a scale rivaled only by the crimes of the Bush administration in Iraq – and there is a definite parallel in the methodology of the criminals.

Libya has been pretty much off the public’s radar screen ever since the US intervention that led to Muammar Qaddafi’s downfall – and the ugly aftermath in which the US ambassador was murdered by the very people Washington was intent on “liberating.” Now the aftermath is getting even uglier.

The country is imploding, with two rival governments claiming suzerainty, but describing Libya’s situation as a state of “civil war” is a bit of an understatement. If ever there was such an entity as a “failed state” – that is, a state that has simply collapsed, and is dragging the rest of society down along with it – then Libya fits the definition to a tee. If we liken a society to the human body, then we can say Libya’s immune system is down, allowing a deadly infection to invade and take root – in this case, the “Islamic State,” or “caliphate,” known as ISIS, which first reared its head in Syria and is now spreading into Libya. “

Libya: From Africa’s Wealthiest Democracy under Gaddafi, to US-NATO Sponsored Terrorist Haven

“Today, after US intervention, Libya is home to the world’s largest loose arms cache, and its porous borders are routinely transited by a host of heavily armed non-state actors including Tuareg separatists, jihadists who forced Mali’s national military from Timbuktu and increasingly ISIS militiamen led by former US ally Abdelhakim Belhadj.

Clearly, Gaddafi’s system of economic and direct democracy was one of the 21st century’s most profound democratic experiments and NATO’s bombardment of Libya may indeed go down in history as one of the greatest military failures of the 21st century.”

“October 20, marks the four-year anniversary of the US-backed assassination of Libya’s former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, and the decline into chaos of one of Africa’s greatest nations.

In 1967 Colonel Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa; by the time he was assassinated, he had transformed Libya into Africa’s richest nation. Prior to the US-led bombing campaign in 2011, Libya had the highest Human Development Index, the lowest infant mortality and the highest life expectancy in all of Africa.

Today, Libya is a failed state. Western military intervention has caused all of the worst-scenarios: Western embassies have all left, the South of the country has become a haven for ISIS terrorists, and the Northern coast a center of migrant trafficking. Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia have all closed their borders with Libya. This all occurs amidst a backdrop of widespread rape, assassinations and torture that complete the picture of a state that is failed to the bone.

Libya currently has two competing governments, two parliaments, two sets of rivaling claims to control over the central bank and the national oil company, no functioning national police or army, and the United States now believes that ISIS is running training camps across large swathes of the country.

On one side, in the West of the nation, Islamist-allied militias took over control of the capital Tripoli and other key cities and set up their own government, chasing away a parliament that was previously elected.”

Continued at link in title

Libya: From Africa’s Wealthiest Democracy under Gaddafi, to US-NATO Sponsored Terrorist Haven

October 20, marks the four-year anniversary of the US-backed assassination of Libya’s former…

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Libya Under Gaddafi’s So-called Dictatorship

By DNA  on November 16, 2014

What do you think of when you hear the name Colonel Gaddafi? Tyrant? Dictator? Terrorist? Well, a national citizen of Libya may disagree but we want you to decide.

Ruling the country for for 41 years until his demise in October 2011, Muammar Gaddafi did some truly amazing things for his country and repeatedly tried to unite and empower the whole of Africa. So despite what you’ve heard on the radio, seen in the media or on the TV Gaddafi did some powerful things that were not very reminiscent of a vicious dictator. Here are ten things Gaddafi did for Libya that you may not know about…

1. In Libya a home is considered a natural human right.

In Gaddafi’s green book it states: ” The house is a basic need of both the individual and the family, therefore it should not be owned by others”. Gaddafi’s Green Book is the formal leader’s political philosophy, it was first published in 1975 and was intended reading for all Libyans even being included in the national curriculum.

2. Education and medical treatment were all free.

Under Gaddafi’s reign Libya could boast one of the best healthcare services in the Arab and African world. Also if a Libyan citizen could not access the desired educational course or correct medical treatment in Libya they were funded to go abroad.

3. Gaddafi carried out the worlds largest irrigation project.

The largest irrigation system in the world also known as the great manmade river was designed to make water readily available to all Libyan’s across the entire country. It was funded by the Gaddafi government and it said that Gaddafi himself called it ”the eighth wonder of the world”.

4. It was free to start a farming business.

If any Libyan wanted to start a farm they were given a house, farm land and live stock and seeds all free of charge.

5. A bursary was given to mothers with newborn babies.

When a Libyan woman gave birth she was given 5000 (US dollars) for herself and the child.

6. Electricity was free.

Electricity was free in Libya meaning absolutely no electric bills!

7.  Cheap petrol

During Gaddafi’s reign the price of petrol in Libya was as low as 0.14 (US dollars) per litre.

8. Gaddafi raised the level of education.

Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. He bought that figure up to 87% under his rule with 25% earning university degrees.

9. Libya had It’s own state bank.

Libya was the only country in the world to have a bank owned by the state meaning they were able to give loans to citizens at zero percent interest by law and they had no external debt.

10. The gold dinar

Before the fall of Tripoli and his untimely demise Gaddafi was trying to introduce a single African currency made of gold. Following in the foot steps of the late great pioneer Marcus Garvey who first coined the term ”United States of Africa”. Gaddafi wanted to introduce and only trade in the African gold Dinar  – a move which would have thrown the world economy into chaos.

The Dinar was widely opposed by the ‘elite’ of today’s society and who could blame them. African nations would have finally had the power to bring itself out of debt and poverty and only trade in this precious commodity. They would have been able to finally say ‘no’ to external exploitation and charge whatever they felt suitable for precious resources. It has been said that the gold Dinar was the real reason for the NATO led rebellion, in a bid to oust the outspoken leader.

So, was Muammar Gaddafi a Terrorist?

Few can answer this question fairly, but if anyone can, it’s a Libyan citizen who has lived under his reign? Whatever the case, it seems rather apparent that he did some positive things for his country despite the infamous notoriety surrounding his name. And that’s something you should try to remember when judging in future.

This quirky video documentary spells out an interesting, if rather different, story from the one we think we know.

Muammar Gaddafi Interviewed Just Before Libyan Revolution

Journeyman Pictures

Published on Aug 22, 2013

Gaddafi interview 2010 – Libyan leader Gaddafi is questioned on many topics including terrorism, Palestine and Israel, the Lockerbie bombing and more.

In this rare interview shot in February 2010 – less than two years before he was killed while hiding in a culvert – Muammar Gaddafi tells presenter George Negus he’s always merely represented the will of the people.

“For 40 years I have not been the ruler, the authority has been with the people,” says Gaddafi calmly. Surrounded by security guards and local TV crews in a library of his military compound, which was bombed by the Americans back in 1986, Gaddafi gives an air of quiet confidence. He continues to deny responsibility in the Lockerbie bombing and advocates a one-state solution to the Israel and Palestine conflict. He also comments on Libya’s nuclear programme, and shares his opinions on terrorism and democracy. Quizzed by Negus about his softened image, Gaddafi responds that “It is the world that has changed.”

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We came, we saw, he died: What Hillary Clinton told news reporter moments after hearing of Gaddafi’s death

				We came, we saw, he died: What Hillary Clinton told news… After being filmed saying ‘wow’ on hearing of Gaddafi’s death, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joked with a TV news reporter .
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Clinton Benghazi Hearing Is a Face-Off of the Frauds

				Clinton Benghazi Hearing Is a Face-Off of the Frauds What have we learned since the Benghazi raid? Our politics stink.
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Hillary’s Libya Post-War Plan Was ‘Play It by Ear,’ Gates Says

				Hillary’s Libya Post-War Plan Was ‘Play It by Ear,’ Gate… She still defends the invasion as ‘smart power at its best.’ But war backers like Clinton had no plan for securing the country, says ex-Pentagon chief B…
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James and JoAnne Moriaty Reveal the Truth About the Libyan War – Corbett Report Interview 849

James and JoAnne Moriaty Reveal the Truth About the Libyan War – Corbett Report Interview 849

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Published on Apr 13, 2014

James and JoAnne Moriarty of LibyanWarTheTruth.com discuss their experiences as businesspeople in Libya since 2007 and as eyewitnesses to the destruction wrought by the NATO-sponsored Al-CIAda perpetrated overthrow of that country in 2011. From the truth about the outside forces brought in to destabilize the country to what really happened in Benghazi, their website and their DVD, Escape From Al Qaeda, is essential information for those seeking to get to the bottom of what really happened in Libya.

 

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Inebriated with privatism, and a wrongheaded sense of entitlement, the Ranchers revolt against the Feds. Not all revolts are worthy of admiration, and this one certainly isn’t. These men represent the ugly spirit of conquest and theft of nature and subjugation of weaker groups at the core of European colonialism.