Debt Crises Film: Inside Job (part 1)

Academic Capture

Πηγή: Variant, issue 41, Spring 2011




Academic Capture

Kasim Agpak


‘Embedded Experts’, Commercialisation, Militarisation and Securitisation of the UK Academy
Desmond Fernandes
Apec Press, Stockholm, 2011

The attack on academic freedom, at several levels, has not yet brought about an adequate defense of the public interest in the autonomy of university research. However, by bringing together numerous accounts of the unfolding battles which are taking place, Desmond Fernandes provides a powerful account of the way the commercialisation, militarisation and securitisation of the UK academy has developed into a state discourse, not only in the UK but also internationally. ‘Embedded experts’ play a key role in facilitating such discourse and its impact is an issue in need of more critical research, because, with a few distinguished exceptions1, it is often untouched or ignored by academics. Maybe Foucault’s idea of power can help us to understand the way in which ‘power relations’ function and creates its own regime of truth:

Greek Mythology: The Real Story of the European Debt Crisis

Πηγή: Greek Mythology: The Real Story of the European Debt Crisis by Walden Bello

Από τον κ. Walden Bello, συντάκτη του περιοδικού Yes! Magazine, μέλος της Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων στις Φιλιππίνες, αναλυτή στο ινστιτούτο Focus on the Global South και αρθρογράφο στο Foreign Policy in Focus.

Cafés are full in Athens, and droves of tourists still visit the Parthenon and go island-hopping in the fabled Aegean. But beneath the summery surface, there is confusion, anger, and despair as this country plunges into its worst economic crisis in decades.

The global media has presented Greece, tiny Greece, as the epicenter of the second stage of the global financial crisis, much as it portrayed Wall Street as ground zero of the first stage.

Yet there is an interesting difference in the narratives surrounding these two episodes.

Narratives in Conflict

The unregulated activities of financial institutions, which created ever more complex instruments to magically multiply money, created the Wall Street crash that morphed into the global financial crisis.
With Greece, however, the popular narrative goes this way: This country piled up an unsustainable debt load to build a welfare state it could not afford, and is now the spendthrift that must tighten its belt. Brussels, Berlin, and the banks are the dour Puritans exacting penance from the Mediterranean hedonists for living beyond their means and committing the sin of pride in hosting the costly 2004 Olympics.

This penance comes in the form of a European Union-International Monetary Fund program that will increase the country’s value-added tax to 23 percent, raise the retirement age to 65 for both men and women, make deep cuts in pensions and public sector wages, and eliminate practices promoting job security. The ostensible aim of the exercise is to radically slim down the welfare state and get the spoiled Greeks to live within their means.

Europarltv: Συζήτηση για την κρίση με μαθητές... της Γλυφάδας.

Στο πλαίσιο της δημοκρατικής ενδυνάμωσης στην ΕΕ και της σύσφιξης των κρατών μελών της το νεο - ιδρυθέν τηλεοπτικό κανάλι Europaltv καταγράφει τις απόψεις των νεαρών Ελλήνων μαθητών για την οικονομική κρίση επιλέγοντας ένα σχολείο ... στην Γλυφάδα.

Libya "No Flying Zone" Debate on Tuesday, March 8, 2011

A look at Libya with Jessica Tuchman Matthews, president of the Carnegie Endowment, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, David Sanger of "The New York Times" and Leon Wieseltier of 'The New Republic'

Έπαιξε τα ρέστα του με τον Σόρος | Πολιτική | STATESMEN

Έπαιξε τα ρέστα του με τον Σόρος | Πολιτική | STATESMEN

Όταν ο Γιώργος Παπανδρέου κανόνιζε να δεχθεί στο γραφείο του τον Τζορτζ Σόρος, γνώριζε φυσικά ότι τα φώτα του διεθνούς ενδιαφέροντος θα στρέφονταν στη συνάντηση αυτή. Και αυτό ακριβώς ήθελε!

Ο στρατηγικός σχεδιασμός του Μεγάρου Μαξίμου ήταν ξεκάθαρος. Ο Πρωθυπουργός της χώρας που βρίσκεται εδώ και ένα χρόνο στο στόχαστρο των διεθνών αγορών, ως η πρώτη υποψήφια για να χρεοκοπήσει, και να συμπαρασύρει στην κατάρρευση ολόκληρη την ευρωζώνη, συναντήθηκε με έναν από τους ισχυρότερους ανθρώπους του κόσμου, που πέρσι τέτοια εποχή, είχε προβλέψει ότι η Ελλάδα δεν θα άντεχε, και θα κήρυττε στάση πληρωμών.

Παρά τις προβλέψεις του κ. Σόρος, η Ελλάδα άντεξε. Και σήμερα, απειλείται περισσότερο από την «περιρρέουσα ατμόσφαιρα», η οποία επικρατεί στις διεθνείς αγορές, και από τα… τρομοκρατικά χτυπήματα των Οίκων Αξιολόγησης, παρά από τη μη υπέρβαση των δικών της αντικειμενικών παθογενειών και στρεβλώσεων της οικονομίας.

Η συνάντηση ήρθε την επομένη ομιλίας του Τζορτζ Σόρος σε εκδήλωση στο Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης, όπου έδωσε ψήφο εμπιστοσύνης στην Ελλάδα, και καυτηρίασε τη στάση της γερμανικής κυβέρνησης Μέρκελ.

Σύμφωνα με τον Τζορτζ Σόρος, η Ελλάδα θα σωθεί, επειδή είναι κάτι το οποίο επιθυμούν τόσο η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση όσο και οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Και έχει ξεχωριστή σημασία να το λέει αυτό ένας σημαίνων παράγοντας της παγκόσμιας οικονομίας, που γνωρίζει… εκ των έσω, πότε «φταρνίζεται» η Ουάσινγκτον.

Κάποιοι θα επεσήμαναν ενδεχομένως ότι ο Γιώργος Παπανδρέου αναγκάστηκε να χρησιμοποιήσει την εκκωφαντική παρουσία του Τζορτζ Σόρος ως… ηχείο, για να στείλει στις αγορές ένα μήνυμα καθησυχασμού, το οποίο ίσως δεν μπορούσε ο ίδιος να στείλει. Για τον απλούστατο λόγο, ότι οι αγορές δεν μας εμπιστεύονται.

Ακόμη κι αν είναι έτσι, ο Γιώργος Παπανδρέου έπαιξε σήμερα τα ρέστα του. Σε συνδυασμό με την καλλιέργεια του προφίλ του ηγέτη που μπορεί να μεσολαβήσει, για την εκτόνωση διεθνών κρίσεων, όπως εκείνη της Λιβύης. Η ζαριά ρίχτηκε, και ο Πρωθυπουργός περιμένει την… ετυμηγορία των αγορών.

Soros and U.S. Trained Activists in Libya Egypt Bahrain Syria Tunisia Etc To Kill Islamic Banking

Soros and U.S. Trained Activists in Libya Egypt Bahrain Syria Tunisia Etc To Kill Islamic Banking

Puppetworld Post | April 2, 2011

Islamic banks have been eating into the profits of conventional banks in the Middle East because: they don’t charge interest (Shariah Law), they are growing very rapidly, and (in these catastrophic economic times) they are more stable than western banks.

The New York Times article “Islamic banking rises on oil wealth, drawing non-Muslims” ( November 22, 2007) reported: “Rising oil wealth is lifting Islamic banking – which adheres to the laws of the Koran and its prohibition against charging interest – into the financial mainstream. . . . In addition to Islamic loans, there are Islamic bonds, Islamic credit cards …In Islamic banking, financiers are required to share borrowers’ risks, meaning that depositors are treated more like shareholders, earning a portion of profits. …And while the biggest Islamic banks are in the wealthy Gulf states, the most attractive potential markets are in Turkey and North Africa (emphasis added) and among European Muslims… .”

Most people of the world prefer the conventional banking model. They don’t mind paying 20% interest on small loans (credit card). They don’t want to share in their bank’s profits: they want their banks to grow even bigger and stronger and more powerful to compete on international markets. They don’t mind paying income tax to bail out monster banks (i.e. too big to fail) for their bad gambling debts (i.e. TARP in U.S.) [and because that bail out is added to the government’s debt, they don’t mind paying interest on the bail out to the Federal Reserve (whose policies created the crisis)]. They don’t mind children dying in Africa due to third-world usury (countries that can’t pay down the principle have gone further into debt instead of declaring bankruptcy).

With the support of their governments, Islamic Finance is the fastest growing sector in the MENA region (Middle East North Africa) with huge business opportunities ahead in the untapped Muslim populations in many countries. Middle East regimes threaten to derail the forces of globalization and unseat traditional banking because Islam is setting up an attractive alternate model to conventional banking. Suffering a setback after the “Battle in Seattle”, the globalists have wrapped themselves in the cloak of democracy to further their agenda. Conventional western bankers see regime change in the Middle East as an imperative to competing with the success of the Islamic banking system (Henry, Clement Moore, PhD. and Robert Springborg. Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 2nd edition 2010).

In their Islamic Finance Outlook 2010 , Standard and Poor’s says, “Competition Is Mounting, With Conventional Banks’ Islamic Windows Actively Challenging Fully-Fledged Islamic Banks: Pioneering Islamic banks that have managed to acquire quasi-monopolies in their domestic niche markets are now facing stiff competition in our opinion. Their first mover advantage is shrinking in their domestic markets and we understand they are now looking at business and/or geographic diversification strategies. Conventional banks entering Islamic banking currently constitute the most active competitive threat to established Islamic banks. …”

Late in 2008, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announced France’s intention to make Paris “the capital of Islamic finance” and said several Islamic banks would open branches in the French capital in 2009. French sources estimate this area of the financial market is worth from 500 to 600 billion dollars and could grow by an average 11 percent a year.

John Sandwick, managing director of Swiss asset management firm Encore Management, characterized the opening of several Swiss Islamic banks as, “the race to control the rich prize: which today is worth hundreds of billions, but in the future will be trillions of dollars of Islamic wealth.”

Reporting on material from Wikileaks, The Telegraph (Islamic Finance Key To Ensuring London As Top Financial Center) reported that Robert Tuttle, the then US ambassador to the Court of St. James in London as stating“Should London successfully position itself as a leading Islamic finance center, it could gain an edge on New York, when the global financial markets recover. . . . Prospects for growth from a Standard & Poor forecast [see above], assesses the [Islamic Finance] industry to potentially contain up to $4 trillion of assets. Other estimates put growth figures even higher, since Muslims account for 20 percent of the world population. Presently only about 1 percent of global financial assets are controlled under finance compliant with Islamic law.”

Islamic banking is not yet established in North Africa (except in Sudan) and Egypt where large Muslim populations represent a very lucrative opportunity for Islamic banking in these emerging economies. “However, despite the current poor climate, the potential for Islamic banking in Egypt is huge,” states Executive Magazine (Feb 8 2011), “ … Clearly Islamic banks in the Gulf are already anticipating the day when their home markets are saturated. And it appears that Egypt will be on the next front-line in the development of regional Islamic banking and finance.”

“African countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan are keen on future sukuk exercises (issuing Islamic bonds),” [International Finance Review (Reuters), 2008]

ROTHSCHILDS/U.S. FINANCE REVOLUTIONS IN PLAIN SITE

(This portion was in the previous post. If you read it already, please scroll down to the table analyzing the banking profile and activist training in each country)

The MENA (Middle East North Africa) revolutions are from the same playbook as the nonviolent “color revolutions”. The playbook is From Dictatorship To Democracy by Gene Sharp of the Albert Einstein Institute (funded partially by George Soros). These revolutions have been successful in Serbia [especially the Bulldozer Revolution (2000)], in Georgia’s Rose Revolution (2003), in Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (2004), in Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution and in Kyrgyzstan’s Tulip Revolution (2005). Iran’s Green Revolution (2009) was unsuccessful.

The Guardian reported (Nov 26, 2004) that the following were “directly involved” in organizing the color revolutions: George Soros’ Open Society Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the International Republican Institute, and Freedom House. The Washington Post and the New York Times also reported substantial Western involvement in some of these events. The network for this strategy is outlined in the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace’s Fact-Sheet: U.S. Actors Promoting Democracy In The Middle East. The nature of the programs is described below:

In 2007-08, Freedom House [funded by Soros and the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI)] ran the following program: “New Generation of Advocates, a MEPI-funded program that supports young civil society activists working for peaceful political change in the Middle East and North Africa, spearheaded the “Lawyers against Corruption” campaign in Tunisia.”(Freedom House website). The group of “journalists, lawyers, and other activists who advocate for democratic reform” had a meeting with then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a trip to Washington on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2008. In May 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the group of activist/dissidents. Freedom House reported on their website that the group also visited “U.S. government officials, members of Congress, media outlets and think tanks . . . After returning to Egypt, the fellows received small grants to implement innovative initiatives such as advocating for political reform throughFacebook and SMS messaging.” (emphasis added)

In 2010, Soros’ Open Society Institute funded a grant called ‘Can It Tweet its way to Democracy? The promise of Participatory Media in Africa’ described on the OSI website as being focused in Ethiopia and Egypt.

Facebook and Twitter were the primary means of organizing the revolution in Egypt: “Activists from Egypt’s Kifaya (Enough) movement – a coalition of government opponents – and the 6th of April Youth Movement organized the protests on Facebook and Twitter . . . .” (Voice of America)

In the Foreign Policy Journal, Dr. D.K. Bolton (Jan 19 2011) writes, “NED [National Endowment for Democracy] and Soros work in tandem, targeting the same regimes and using the same methods. . . . At least ten of the twenty-two directors of NED are also members of the plutocratic think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations . . . .” (The Council of Foreign Relations is the American sister of the Rothschild’s Royal Institute of International Affairs in Britain: both are instruments of plutocratic control hiding in plain sight.)

Κανείς πολιτικός μας δεν γνώριζε για την κρίση, αλλά όσα δεν ξέρει ο νοικοκύρης...

Κανείς δεν γνώριζε ότι η Ελλάδα βαίνει προς την χρεοκοπία μέχρι που έγιναν οι τελευταίες εκλογές και άνοιξαν οι ασκοί του Αιόλου... δηλαδή τα λογιστικά βιβλία του κράτους.
Όπως όμως φαίνεται, η "Pytheas Investors Service" το είχε προβλέψει δίχως να προσφύγει σε κρυφά έγγραφα από τον Ιούλιο του 2009. Στο πόρισμά της που παραθέτουμε αυτούσιο καταλήγει: "Είναι άποψη του Pythea ότι η Ελλάδα δεν μπορεί να αποφύγει την ύφεση και ότι πιθανά θα πέσει στην μεγαλύτερη οικονομική κρίση της Νεότερης Εποχής!". Ανίκανοι, ψεύτες ή και τα δύο?

Think Again: Egypt - By Blake Hounshell | Foreign Policy

Think Again: Egypt - By Blake Hounshell | Foreign Policy

"Facebook Defeated Mubarak."

No. There's a joke that has been making the rounds in Egypt in recent weeks, and it goes something like this: Hosni Mubarak meets Anwar Sadat and Gamal Abdel Nasser, two fellow Egyptian presidents, in the afterlife. Mubarak asks Nasser how he ended up there. "Poison," Nasser says. Mubarak then turns to Sadat. "How did you end up here?" he asks. "An assassin's bullet," Sadat says. "What about you?" To which Mubarak replies: "Facebook." (Go to)

The "Arab Spring" and the USA - Israel "indefencible golden platform".

LiveLeak.com - Samantha Power: President Obama's Rising Anti Israel Star

Watch on this video Samantha's Rower arguments concerning the Israel - Palestine issue. If you consider that she is one of Obama's inner cycle person in conjunction with the recent so called "Arab Spring" you may not wonder why Goldstone stepped back from his Human Rights report on Gaza. Being in the same NGO along ElBaraday, namely the Soro’s backed International Crisis Group (along with Obama's presidency) while he is heading to the presidency of Egypt she is fond of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) playing a positive role in the ongoing intervention to Libya.

The “Arab Spring” has brought the Arab States closer to the Western Democratic values along with the Islamic Muslim Brotherhood political organization. So while from one hand the westernization of those Arab States is on the horizon from the other USA’s foreign policy is facing some kind of islamization in respect of embracing the spirit of the new born Arabic democratic spirit (and markets).
This kind of line explains sufficiently why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his visit of the 25/3 in USA and having re – confirmed the support of the Republican Leader John Boeher reported saying: “We in Congress stand by Isralel; In Congress we speak with one voice on Israel” he had to make the same last week only to find that Obama wants Israel to widthraw back to the 1967 borders. Well it seems that the "Arab Spring" is "indefencible" in the way that Nentanyahou commented on Obama's "proposal". Taking turns Obama felt obliged to make a speech at the America Israel Public Affairs Committee where some of the attentands described his proposal as a "golden platform" for Netanyahu.
The whole issue consists  a clear indication that he is under political crossfire in view of the coming elections...

Οι ρατσιστές και ο Σωμερίτης - Αθήνα - ''φραπέbabel''

Οι ρατσιστές και ο Σωμερίτης - Αθήνα - ''φραπέbabel''
Του Νίκου Γεωργιόπουλου, οικονομολόγου, υποψήφιου διδάκτωρα χρηματοοικονομικών στο πανεπιστήμιο της Βιέννης. Ο Νίκος Γεωργιόπουλος εργάστηκε στο Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο από τον Ιούλιο μέχρι το Δεκέμβρη 2010

Δυστυχώς τον ρατσισμό δεν τον εξέθρεψε η Χρυσή Αυγή ούτε η τρόικα των Άνθιμου,Καρατζαφέρη, Ψωμιάδη της οποίας το φόβητρο σήκωνε τα προοδευτικά λάβαρα.Ο ρατσισμός είναι προϊόν όλων αυτών που έκλειναν για χρόνια τα μάτια τους μπροστά στο πρόβλημα. Ο ρατσισμός είναι προϊόν όλων αυτών που έπαιζαν με τα αντανακλαστικά του απλού κόσμου για να προωθήσουν το νέο επαναστατικό τους υποκείμενο. Ο ρατσισμός δημιουργήθηκε όταν η δημόσια ασφάλεια έγινε συνώνυμη της Χούντας και όταν η μεταναστολαγνεία έγινε τεκμήριο σοβαρότητας και ανώτερης σκέψης.
Τελικά ο ρατσισμός είναι προϊόν των κάθε είδους Σωμερίτηδων. Ας κάτσουν να απολαύσουν τι δημιούργησαν. (Go To)

Animating Politics

Είδη Υπό Εξαφάνιση

Boosting Democrasy

Boosting Democracy

"Η επώδυνη προώθηση της Δημοκρατίας και της Ελεύθερης Αγοράς στα πρώην κομμουνιστικά κράτη και οι στρατιωτικές επεμβάσεις των ΗΠΑ κατά την μεταψυχροπολεμική περίοδο, έγιναν με την χρήση προπαγάνδας, η οποία αποτελεί μια προέκταση του Political Warfare (PW) που έχει τις ρίζες του στο τέλος του Β! Παγκόσμιου πόλεμου. Στο παρόν άρθρο εξετάζεται πώς μέσα σε αυτήν την διαδικασία εντάχθηκαν οι διάφορες ΜΚΟ (Μη κυβερνητικές οργανώσεις), o αμφιλεγόμενοςρόλο τους και σε μερικές περιπτώσεις η διπρόσωπη στάση τους. Οι πρόσφατες στρατιωτικές επεμβάσεις των ΗΠΑ με διάφορα προσχήματα όπως η επιτελούμενη γενοκτονία (Γιουγκοσλαβία), τα όπλα μαζικής καταστροφής (Ιράκ) και η τρομοκρατία (Αφγανιστάν), αποτελούν μια εξέλιξη που δημιουργεί   πίσω   της   ασταθή   κράτη,   τα   οποία   έχουν   κάποια   κοινά   χαρακτηριστικά:   Τις παραστρατιωτικές ομάδες, τους ενεργειακούς κόμβους, τις στρατιωτικές βάσεις και το οργανωμένο έγκλημα"

Summary of "Libya Time Zero" Eng.

"WHAT ARE WE TO DO WITH OUR LIVES?,

H. G. Wells, 1931, σελ. 14

«But unlike conspiracies in general this widening protest

and conspiracy against established things would, by its very nature,

go on in the daylight, and it would be willing to accept participation

and help from every quarter. It would, in fact, become an "Open

Conspiracy," a necessary, naturally evolved conspiracy, to adjust our

dislocated world. »"

The “Arab Spring” and subsequent upraises where put in to a line of thought just like the trees of the same forest being consumed one after the other by the flames of the same fire. Even though some of this concept holds to be true the whole approach is rather a crude simplification. 

Libyans are not a likely poor population as their neighbors in Egypt and Tunisia. Whatever the CIA’s Factbook says – 1/3rd under the poverty line (2 dollars per day) – as I have clearly documented is absolutely groundless. The biggest problem of that country turns to be the unemployment and the housing issue as a result of the huge demographic growth (3,3% per year – 30% is 15 years old) and not food, education or healthcare which even not in a top quality are subsided by the state. 

To be sure, less than one month before the “Abou Salim’s” protest of the 15/2 there were a widespread unrest lasting at least five days, when people in several towns invaded thousands new apartments while many of them without having any legitimate contract. 

As Libya escaped the double embargo of the UN and the USA exploded by the low oil prices, after fifteen years of economic frustration the regime had to cope with the necessity of the neglected country’s infrastructure and economic diversification. 

In Benghazi the housing problem was related to 1,400 unfinished new apartments. But this turmoil did not lead to a final uprising even though this problem could said to be a socially hot one albeit effectively caused a “state of emergency” in the town Benghazi which is notorious as an opposition center in the past and present. 

The revolution eventually started not by this pressing trans – tribal issue but centered on the protests of the relatives of the Abou – Salim prison’s victims and their lawyers. These first demonstrations and the subsequent not lethal clashes with the security forces are reported to “take place late night or early morning” so that Libyan people woke up on breaking news at the “Day of Rage” when the killings of innocent civilians took place. 

This day was appointed by the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition (NCLO) which was founded at London on 2006, a union of rather fractioned opposition groups as in a previous conference that held in the Washington Center of International Studies back in 1994 the only common agreement reached was that “if we topple Kaddafi we have succeed”. The “Day of Rage” functioned as a memorial of the 17/2/2006 when in Benghazi 12 people were killed by the security forces while the angry mob put fire on the Italian Embassy demonstrating not for civil rights but against the infamous drawings of the prophet Mohamed that an Italian politician used on his Ti-shirt on a TV presence. It was by that insulted Islamic feelings that people turned against the regime and not by the tradition of some French Revolution or the flag of the rule of law.

These three elementary forces, namely the relatives, the lawyers and the exiled opposition groups are the social backbone of the revolution along with the numerous youth of Benghazi as the UN authorities felt necessary to inform rebels that conscription of fifteen years old boys in the army consists a crime according to the International Law. In this coalition from the beginning took posts defecting important members of the regime now heading to bring democracy along with some exiles all educated in the USA, while in the leadership of the “Ministry of Defense” hooked someone that in the past was backed by the CIA and came all over Virginia where he was living some decades “without apparent financial resources”.
In the following table we can see the major facts that took place from the first protests of the 15/2 which in the graph is the day “0” to the rebels’ rejection of the “road map” proposed by the African Union on 10/3 (day 54th).

As you can see English Special Forces (SAS) where in situ by the 6th day after the “Day of Rage” while CIA involved two days later. While the Media’s favorite picture is that nobody likes Kaddafi, a claim framed by the defectors’ stats, it is more than obvious that if this was at least a bit of truth Kaddafi wouldn’t manage to resist 63 days as we speak against the overwhelming bombing campaign without any support from his own people. Having said that I conclude that the “democratic revolution” carried by people which for the second time took the opportunity to brutalize unprotected black immigrants may not inspire the whole Libyan population. 

Even more, I doubt that the National Transitional Council the temporary government of the rebellion will be able to govern peacefully even the East part of the country as soon as the de facto “martial law” of the present war reaches to an end. To this end the maximization of the possibilities point to the death of Kaddafi himself and a subsequent prosecution of Saif al Islam along with other members that in conjunction with a suitable new “democratic media campaign” could finally disparage the dignity of the long – lived regime. It seems that this is the real objective of first the UN and now NATO intervention, as something that can be read between the lines of the Responsibility to Protect mandate. Lastly, judging from the Iraqi and Afghanistan State building projects where the war game hasn’t over yet along with the Balkan’s newly formed democracies that look like a criminal heaven I doubt that the Libyan fairytale will have any better end. In the future of course the Libyan people could finally enjoy in some way the famous freedom of speech but I doubt that they will have anything to say.

1ο Παράρτημα στο "Λιβύη Ώρα Μηδέν"

Libya Time Zero Sup

Λιβύη Ώρα Μηδέν (PDF)

Libya Time Zero
"...Αυτή περίπου η αφήγηση που μεταδόθηκε από τα γνωστά media (BBC, CNN, Reuters, Al – Jazeera) σερβιρισμένη με διάφορα video στο Youtube, σελίδες στο Facebook και στο Tweeter, φαίνεται πως κατέστη εύκολα αφομοιώσιμη από το φιλοθεάμον κοινό, που έτσι κι αλλιώς ορέγεται να καταβροχθίζει τραγικές ιστορίες με αίσιο τέλος Η ιστορία αυτή είναι σίγουρα τραγική, ωστόσο το happy-end μοιάζει να είναι αμφίβολο".