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DESCRIPTION:Bombing Libya to "save Libya":\nThe forces behind this war\n\nEmergency 
 demonstrations across the country this Wed-Sat. Visit 
 www.ANSWERcoaltion.org for a list of protests. \n\nThe same global powers 
 that used the force of arms to colonize Africa, suction out its natural 
 resources and enslave millions of its people are now raining bombs and 
 missiles down on the continent’s largest oil producer.\n\nA great irony 
 in the vicious and yet cowardly attack on Libya is that the same exploiters 
 and enslavers of Africa explain their most recent act of mass violence as 
 motivated by a tender concern for democracy and freedom for Libyans.\n\nOn 
 Libya’s eastern border is Egypt, where the U.S. government financed, 
 armed and cheered on the Mubarak dictatorship until the very last days of 
 the tyrant’s hold on power. Even during the people's uprising at Tahrir 
 Square and elsewhere, the spigot of U.S. “foreign aid” kept flowing to 
 Mubarak. After Israel, Egypt’s torturers were the second-largest 
 recipient of this “aid.”\n\nThe U.S. government is at war again. How 
 could they get away with launching another war when they tell us the 
 country is so broke that vital public services must be slashed and public 
 workers must be fired in massive numbers?\n\nThe people of the United 
 States are opposed to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and would openly 
 oppose a third U.S. war in a Muslim country. So President Obama, Secretary 
 of State Clinton and Secretary of Defense Gates are going out of the way to 
 assure the country that all the bleeding will be exclusively from 
 Libyans.\n\nWhen U.S./NATO forces destroyed Serbia and broke up Yugoslavia 
 in the 1999 aerial war, they dropped 23,000 bombs and missiles on Yugoslavs 
 and not one U.S. soldier died.\n\nAs they did in the 19th century, the 
 colonialists—who have now morphed into modern-day imperialists—bribed 
 or coerced some indigenous elites to function as their partners and 
 clients. Today, the so-called Arab League provided some early cover to mask 
 the imperialist character of the operation.\n\nAs U.S. planes drop terror 
 bombs in the center of Tripoli, CIA-operated drone aircrafts are carrying 
 out missile attacks on villages in Pakistan, and Pentagon forces are 
 bombing the people of Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops still 
 occupy Iraq after a war that took 1 million Iraqi lives.\n\nThe dominant 
 force practicing terrorism in the world today is the U.S. government, the 
 Pentagon and the CIA.\n\nWashington's goal in Libya is to have the 
 U.S.-backed rebel leadership of Libya's civil war take power in all of 
 Libya or, as an alternative, to become a new governing power in the 
 oil-rich eastern part of the country.\n\nThe cheerleaders for this 
 "democracy movement" went from right-wing Republicans to some liberal 
 Democrats. It is a repeat of the political alignment that led to the first 
 Iraq war in 1991 and the Yugoslav war in 1999. In this case too, they were 
 joined by some in the U.S. anti-war movement, including some self-described 
 "socialists," desiring to show their "democratic" credentials and wanting 
 to accommodate to liberal mainstream public opinion. By their cheerleading 
 for a rebellion whose leaders demanded foreign intervention, and focusing 
 all their fire on the Libyan government, they only contributed to confusion 
 in the weeks leading up to the onslaught against Libya. They are 
 embarrassed about their position now that the imperial carnage is clear for 
 all to see.\n\nThe United States needs a real anti-imperialist movement—a 
 movement that can resist the lies and demonization schemes that the 
 corporate media churns out to justify military aggression. That’s why the 
 ANSWER Coalition is mobilizing a movement in the streets that extends a 
 hand of solidarity to the people of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine 
 who have both suffered and resisted the terrorism of the greatest war 
 machine in human history. Please join us in the streets in coming days in 
 demonstrations across the country. For a list of protests around the 
 country, www.ANSWERcoalition.org. \n\nFor analysis and information on U.S. 
 strategy toward Libya, read the articles below at www.PSLweb.org:\n\nAfter 
 Libya declares ceasefire, U.S. government lays bare its imperialist 
 ambitions\n\nU.S. progressives must tell truth about Libya and impact of 
 foreign intervention\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/21/18675228.php
SUMMARY:Protest - Stop the Bombing of Libya!
LOCATION:New Federal Building\n7th and Mission Sts.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/21/18675228.php
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