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2003 invasion of Iraq, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, History, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Susan Lindauer, United States

‘War for Libyan oil planned long ago, no one cares about people’

In Human Rights, Libya, Military, Society, World Government, World News on April 4, 2011 at 2:40 am

Susan Lindauer, a journalist and author specializing on American interventions, has never believed the allied forces intervened in Libya out of humanitarian reasons. It is a war for oil which was prepared long ago, Lindauer argues – anyone who cared about the Libyan people would stop immediately.

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CIA Asset Susan Lindauer blows the whistle on 9/11, Iraq (howunamerican.wordpress.com)
Explosive Revelations From 9/11 Whistleblower Susan Lindauer on Pre 9/11 Warnings and the Iraq War (inquisitionnews.wordpress.com)
(“The Tea Party didn’t even put up a fight…”)Tea Party Crashes: The Most Unpatriotic Act by Susan Lindauer (gunnyg.wordpress.com)
Libya’s Lesson: It’s OK to Stop Genocide (newser.com)
Why the U.S. Went to War: Inside the White House Debate on Libya (swampland.blogs.time.com)
Why the U.S. Went to War: Inside the White House Debate on Libya (swampland.blogs.time.com)
Globalists Prepare Libyan Intervention Under Humanitarian Cover (birdflu666.wordpress.com)
Taking a shot at providing a Libya-endgame strategy (philly.com)
After Libya, “Syria next piece on geopolitical chessboard” (rt.com)
Will Obama Order U.S. Intervention in Libya? – TIME (news.google.com)

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Africa, Cairo, Egypt, History, Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, Suzanne Mubarak, Tunisia

Hosni Mubarak and his family were convinced everything they did was for the good of Egypt and never understood that it was time for them to leave.

In Activism, Egypt, Human Rights on February 15, 2011 at 1:47 am

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The night before he finally stepped down as Egypt‘s president, the protesters in Tahrir Square heard Hosni Mubarak deliver his final address as their head of state. “A speech from a father to his sons and daughters,” he called it, and like many of his orations in the past, it was filled with lies, although he may have believed some of these himself. He would stay as president until September, he promised, because the country needed him for a transition to democracy. This, after three decades of autocracy. The hundreds of thousands gathered in the square wanted to hear him say only one word: “Goodbye.” Amid their screams of fury, one woman could be heard shouting into a phone, “People are sick of the soap opera!” The protesters had reason to be weary of the president’s final, delusional public performance. But there was another long drama coming to an end that night, mostly out of public view—a personal story that helps to explain the president whose stubborn incomprehension of his “sons and daughters” dragged Egypt so close to ruin. Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Daniel Kurtzer has called it the “tragedy” of the Mubaraks. As Kurtzer says of the Egyptian president, “He really did feel he was the only one holding the dike”—as if beyond Mubarak lay the deluge. Mubarak’s fall is not a story like the one that unfolded in Tunisia, of a dictator and his kin trying to take their country for all it was worth. Although there have been widely reported but poorly substantiated allegations of a $40 billion to $70 billion fortune amassed by the Mubarak family, few diplomats in Egypt find those tales even remotely credible. “Compared to other kleptocracies, I don’t think the Mubaraks rank all that high,” says one Western envoy in Cairo, asking not to be named on a subject that remains highly sensitive. “There has been corruption, [but] as far as I know it’s never been personally attached to the president and Mrs. Mubarak. They don’t live an elaborate lifestyle.” Despite the uprising of millions of people in Egypt’s streets, despite their ringing condemnations of secret-police tactics and torture, the Mubarak family remained convinced that everything the president had done was for the country’s own good. “We’re gone. We’re leaving,” the deeply depressed first lady, Suzanne Mubarak, told one of her confidantes as the crisis worsened last week. “We’ve done our best.”

Hosni Mubarak’s Final Tragedy (thedailybeast.com)
Egypt’s Mubarak Resigns (cehwiedel.com)
Egypt: Vince Cable calls for international action to locate Mubarak billions (telegraph.co.uk)
Egypt: Vince Cable calls for international action to locate Mubarak billions – Telegraph.co.uk (news.google.com)
VIDEO: What made Hosni Mubarak step down? (bbc.co.uk)
Hosni Mubarak Not Resigning:Eygptian President Not Leaving Office (nowpublic.com)
“After 30 years in power, Hosni Mubarak stepped down as President of Egypt” and related posts (chowrangi.com)
Egypt protests: UK under pressure to freeze Hosni Mubarak’s British assets (dailymail.co.uk)
Hosni Mubarak Is Not Stepping Down! Will Remain President Of Egypt [Video] (realestateradiousa.com)
U.S. policy and Egypt after Mubarak’s resignation (thehill.com)
Egypt’s Military Pushes Hosni Mubarak Out (bostonist.com)
Hosni Mubarak Again Refuses to Step Down (newser.com)

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60 Minutes, History, Julian Assange, Sweden, Twentieth Century, United States, Wars and Conflicts, Wikileak

Wikileaks deserves protection, not threats and attacks

In Activism, Human Rights, Wikileaks, World News on February 4, 2011 at 11:34 pm

“There is nothing more wrong than a government lying to its people about those wars, then asking these same citizens to put their lives and their taxes on the line for those lies. If a war is justified, says Julian Assange, then tell the truth and the people will decide whether to support it.”

-Julian Assange