Libya

Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year reign as leader of Libya is now history thanks to an armed rebellion which was helped across the finish line by NATO and the Western powers. What will the new Libya look like? Will it become a stable democracy or an outpost for Islamic extremist?

In 1884 the von Bismarck gathering had as its prime directive ‘stamp out slavery’ – read ‘humanitarian intervention’ – while the real agenda was the allotment of vast parcels of resource-rich land to Caucasian imperial wizards.

‘If Africa was united, no major power bloc would attempt to subdue it by limited war because, from the very nature of limited war, what can be achieved by it is itself limited.