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NATO´s  Genocidal Role (III part)

In February 23, with the title “Cynicism Danse Macabre”, I expressed:
The policy of plundering imposed by the United States and their NATO allies in the Middle East has gone into a crisis.
Thanks to the treason committed by Anwar El-Sadat at Camp David, the Palestinian State has not been able to exist, despite the UN treaties of November 1947, and Israel became a strong nuclear power, an ally of the United States and NATO.
The US Military Industrial Complex supplied Israel with tens of billions of dollars every year as well as to the very Arab States that were submitted and being humiliated by Israel.  
The genie has escaped from the bottle and NATO doesn’t know how to control it.
They are going to attempt to wrest the most benefits from the regrettable events in Libya.  Nobody can know at this moment what is happening over there. All the figures and versions, even the most implausible ones, have been spread by the empire via the mass media, sowing chaos and disinformation.
It is obvious that inside Libya a civil war is brewing.  Why and how did this happen?  Who will pay the consequences? Reuters Agency, echoing the opinion of the well-known Nomura Bank of Japan, stated that oil prices could go beyond any limits:
… What would be the consequences in the midst of the food crisis?
The main NATO leaders are all worked up.  British Prime Minister David Cameron, ANSA informed, “…admitted in a speech in Kuwait that the western nations made a mistake in backing non-democratic governments in the Arab world.” One has to congratulate him on his frankness.
His French colleague Nicolas Sarkozy stated: “The extended brutal and bloody repression of the Libyan civilian population is disgusting”.
Italian Chancellor Franco Frattini stated as “‘believable’ the figure of one thousand dead in Tripoli […] ‘the tragic numbers shall be a bloodbath’.”
Hillary Clinton stated the following: “…the ‘bloodbath’ is ‘completely unacceptable’ and ‘it has to stop’…”
Ban Ki-moon spoke: “‘The use of violence in the country is absolutely unacceptable’.”
“…‘the Security Council will act according to whatever the international community decides’.”
“‘We are considering a series of options’.”
What Ban Ki-moon is really hoping is that Obama pronounces the last word. 
The president of the United States spoke this Wednesday afternoon and stated that the Secretary of State would be leaving for Europe in order to agree with their NATO allies on the measures to be taken. On his face once could note the opportunity to spar with John McCain, the far-right-wing Republican senator, pro-Israel Senator Joseph Lieberman from Connecticut and the leaders of the Tea Party, in order to ensure the Democratic Party demands.
The empire’s mass media has prepared the terrain for action. There would be nothing strange about a military intervention in Libya; besides, with that, Europe would be guaranteed almost two million barrels of light oil per day, unless before that events would put an end to the leadership or the life of Gaddafi.
Anyway, Obama’s role is rather complicated. What will the reaction of the Arab and Muslim world be if blood should flow in abundance in that country as a result of that exploit? Would NATO intervention in Libya stem the revolutionary tidal wave surging in Egypt?
In Iraq, the innocent blood of more than a million Arab citizens was spilt when the country was invaded under false pretexts.  Mission accomplished!: proclaimed George W. Bush.
Nobody in the world would ever agree with the deaths of defenceless civilians in Libya or anywhere else. And I wonder: will the US and NATO apply that principle on the defenceless civilians that the unmanned Yankee planes and the soldiers of that organization kill every day in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
It is a cynical danse macabre.    
While thinking in these facts, at United Nations, it began the debate scheduled for yesterday, Tuesday, October 25th, on the “Necessity to end the commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”, something that has been stated by the vast majority of the member states of that institution during 20 years.
 This time, the numerous elementary and just reasons, which the United States Government considers as rhetoric exercise, demonstrated, as never before, the moral and political weakness of the most powerful empire it has ever existed, whose oligarchic and insatiable thirst for power and wealth has subjugated all inhabitants of the planet, including the people of that same country.
The United States tyrannizes and plunders the globalized world with his political, economic, technological and military power.
That truth is every day more obvious after the brave and honest debates that have occurred in the last 20 years at the United Nations, with the support of the states who supposedly express the will of the vast majority of the inhabitants of the planet.
Before Bruno´s remarks, numerous international organizations stated their opinions through their member states. The first one was Argentina, on behalf of Group 77 plus China; it followed Egypt on behalf of NOAL; Kenya from the African Union, Belize from CARICOM; Kazakhstan from the Organization for the Islamic Cooperation; and Uruguay from MERCOSUR.
Independently of these collective statements, China, nation with a growing political and economical power in the World, India and Indonesia firmly supported the resolutions in the voices of their Ambassadors; the three represent 2,700 million inhabitants. The Ambassadors from the Russian Federation, Belarus, South Africa, Algeria, Venezuela and Mexico did it too. Among the most impoverished countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the solidarity words of the Belizean Ambassador, who talked on behalf of the Caribbean community, vibrated; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  and Bolivia, whose arguments related with the solidarity of our people, despite the almost 50 years blockade, will be an imperishable  motivation to our doctors, teachers and scientists. 
Nicaragua talked before the voting to explain bravely why it´d vote against such perfidious measure.  
Also did the representative of the United States to explain the unexplainable. I felt pity for him. That´s the role he was assigned.
When the time of the voting arrived, two nations were absent: Libya and Sweden; three abstained: Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau; two voted against: United States and Israel. Summing up those absented, voted against and in abstention, United States with 313 million inhabitants; Israel with 7,4 million; Sweden, 9,1 million; Libya, 6.5 million; Marshall Islands, 67,100; Micronesia; 106,800; Palau, 20.900, total 336 948 000 equivalent to 4,8% of the world population who this month arrived to 7,000 millions.
After the voting, Poland explained the vote on behalf of the European Union who, despite the strong alliance with the United States and its obliged participation in the blockade, opposes to this criminal measure.
Later, 17 countries intervened to firmly and decisively explain why they voted for the resolution against blockade.
I shall continue on Friday 28.

Fidel Castro Ruz
October 26, 2011
9:45 pm

 

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