‘Post-Qaddafi Libya’: on the Globalist Road

by Dr. K R Bolton

February 26, 2011

Libyan Youth Movement

The disaffected youth opposing Qaddafi are centered on the Libyan Youth Movement (LYM), which has been active in the riots in Triploi. LYM, like its counterparts in Serbia, Georgia and Tunisia, etc., was formed out of newtech networking especially via Twitter[21] and Facebook,[22] which has been a “feature of the color revolutions.”

A recent article published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty states that strategic direction is provided by the Center for Applied NonViolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), which grew out of Optor, the vanguard of the opposition that overthrew Milosevic, to which should be added: for the sake of the globalist plundering of Kosovan minerals. While certain of Optor’s useful idiots were shocked to subsequently learn that their movement was funded by the USA, despite denials, CANVAS, although supposedly giving Washington “a wide berth” (sic), still gets funding from the International Republican Institute and from Freedom House.[23] CANVAS and its predecessor, Optor, is based on the strategies of Gene Sharp, ideological guru of the “color revolutions” and founder of The Albert Einstein Institute, whose 1973 blueprint for revolution, The Politics of Nonviolent Action was funded by the Pentagon, and whose 1993 revolutionary manual From Dictatorship to Democracy has been avidly funded and promoted in multiple translations by George Soros’ Open Society Institute.[24] CANVAS is taking a central role in the present Middle East turmoil, having trained “the activists who spearheaded Georgia’s Rose Revolution in 2003 and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004″.[25]

The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty article continues: “And now, Popovic [head of Optor] is deploying his new organization, called Canvas, even farther afield — assisting the pro-democracy activists who recently brought down despotic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.”

Srddja Popovic cogently describes the type of alienated, disaffected youth that are the vanguard of the world “velvet revolution.” These youth, cynics might regard as “rootless cosmopolitans” (to use a term coined by Joe Stalin), or as the type that neocon strategist Maj. Ralph Peters described in his Parameters article years ago as being addicted to American-style consumerism, MTV and Hollywood, which would inexorably destroy the regimes that are roadblocks to globalization.[26] To return to Popovic, what he stated of these alienated youth was that:

I think that those young, secular people that we see these days in the demonstrations all around the Middle East are one new face of that region. I want to believe that they are strong enough and smart enough to beat any extremism, including the Islamic one.[27]

…”Secular youth” as the “new face of the region,” fighting for the democratic right to partake fully of the Brave New World of global consumerism and the world shopping mall. The columnists for Radio Free European/Liberty state as much:

The work of groups like Canvas, combined with the proliferation of social-networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, and the coming of age of a wired — and increasingly disaffected — young generation have combined to create a perfect storm threatening authoritarian regimes from Europe to North Africa, to the Middle East.[28]

There is no hidden agenda here. The term “Open Conspiracy,” coined by H G Wells as the title of a 1928 book, seems apt. The globalists are confident that what was a few decades ago loudly denounced as “Americanization,” with all the puerility the word implies, and with strident calls throughout the world of “Yankee go home,” has now been almost universally accepted by the “rebellious youth” (sic) under the names of “democracy” and “human rights” as something noble.

The Egyptian revolt, which directly inspired the present Libyan upheaval, according to what the Libyan Youth Movement states on Facebook and Twitter, received training from CANVAS starting several years ago:

In the late summer of 2009 the group collaborated with other NGOs to bring approximately 20 Egyptian activists — including some of those who later founded the April 6 movement that spearheaded the recent antigovernment protests — to Belgrade for a week of training on tactics they could use to promote change in Egypt. Petar Milicevic, the founder of Alternative to Europe NGO, helped with the training. He says he talked to the Egyptians about organizing campaigns, the importance of galvanizing youth support, and how to use social media to reach both of these goals.[29]

North African Economic Zone

European Union functionaries have already mooted globalist plans for North Africa. Refer back to the vision of Dr. Tarhouni expressed at the Washington summit of Libyan oppositionists in 1994 when, with all agreeing that “privatization” was the way of the future, Tarhouni held out the prospect of “regional cooperation by searching for markets.” Now the EU is formulating a “unified policy” for Tunisia and Egypt while it awaits developments in Libya. “EU foreign ministers issued a fresh pledge that the EU was ‘ready for a new partnership in its relations’ with North African states,” with EU foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton departing for a trip to Egypt on February 21, calling North Africa “our neighborhood.”

British Foreign Secretary Hague has stated that North Africa can expect much technical and financial assistance from the EU so long as it embarks on a policy of privatization (emphasis added):

British Foreign Secretary William Hague followed up today, expressing optimism that the EU could have a positive impact on developments in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, where popular uprisings have overthrown despotic governments.

“If we can succeed in bringing both more democracy and more stability to North Africa and to the wider Middle East, then that will be the greatest achievement of the European Union since the enlargement of the EU,” Hague said.

“I have called for ambitious plans for future assistance, economic and technical assistance for countries like Egypt and Tunisia. But it is also based on clear conditions that we will assist provided that the necessary changes for economic assistance to work are being made.”[30]

Hague, whose globalist credentials include affiliation with the Bilderberg Group,[31] was the most outspoken of the EU Ministers in regard to opposing the Qaddafi regime. He promises Western trinkets in return for Arab serfdom. So come on young idealists of Libya, overthrow Qadaffi, a statesman whose “Third Universal Theory,”[32] like the Nasserism that inspired it, provides Arab youth with a real idealism, so that your once sovereign nation might assume its rightful place amongst the North African bloc at the behest of plutocracy. The world of MTV, Coca Cola and Hollywood awaits.

Notes

[1] G Noakes, “Libyans Debate Post-Qadaffi Era,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January 1994, http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0194/9401050.htm

[2] G Noakes, ibid.

[3] Trilateral Commission, http://www.trilateral.org/

[4] The idea of an Asia-Pacific economic bloc that includes the USA has been formally promoted by the Rockefeller family since J D Rockefeller III founded the Asia Society in 1956; Asia Society, “History,” http://asiasociety.org/about/mission-history

[5] R Peters, “Constant Conflict, “Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14, http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/parameters/Articles/97summer/peters.htm

[6] G Noakes, op. cit.

[7] V Weber, NED Chairman, “Vin Weber’s Presentation of NED’s Democracy Service Medal to Václav Havel,” http://www.ned.org/events/democracy-service-medal/2007/vin-webers-presentation-to-v%C3%A1clav-havel

[8] V Havel, “Fall of the Berlin Wall: Freedom Rises and Spreads After the Fall,” Open Society News, November 5, 2009, http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/havel_20091105

[9] “Burma Project Grantees Rally Global Support Around Aung San Suu Kyi,” OSI “Burma Project Southeast Asia Initiative,” June 10, 2009, http://www.soros.org/initiatives/bpsai/news/support_20090610

[10] “Crisis Group Board of Trustees,” http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx

[11] Tibra Foundation, http://tibra.org/awards/2002/judges/tarhouni.htm

[12] NCLO, “The National Accord,” http://www.libya-nclo.com/English.aspx

[13] K R Bolton, “The Globalist Web of Subversion, Foreign Policy Journal, February 7, 2011, http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/07/the-globalist-web-of-subversion

[14] NED, “Libya,” http://www.ned.org/publications/annual-reports/2009-annual-report/middle-east-and-north-africa/description-of-2009-gra-8

[15] NED, ibid., http://www.ned.org/publications/annual-reports/2008-annual-report/middle-east-and-northern-africa/2008-grants/libya

[16] NED, ibid., http://www.ned.org/publications/annual-reports/2007-annual-report/middle-east-and-northern-africa/description-of-2007–9

[17] NED, ibid., http://www.ned.org/publications/annual-reports/2006-annual-report/middle-east-and-northern-africa/description-of-2006–9

[18] K R Bolton, “Is Egypt’s Labor Movement Being Co-opted by Globalists?,” Global Research, February 21, 2011, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23305

[19] NED, “Libya,” op. cit., http://www.ned.org/publications/annual-reports/2005-annual-report/middle-east-and-north-africa/description-of-2005-gra-8

[20] “The American Middle East Convention for Freedom and Democracy, “October 1, 2004, http://www.middleeastfreedom.org/events/media.htm

[21] Twitter, LYM,  http://twitter.com/ShababLibya

[22] Facebook, LYM, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Libyan-Youth-Movement/133738650025293

[23] K R Bolton, “Iran: the Next domino?,” Foreign Policy Journal, February. 22, 2011, http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/22/iran-the-next-domino/all/1/

[24] K R Bolton, “Iran:’ the Next Domino?,” ibid.

[25] “Exporting Nonviolent Revolution, From Eastern Europe To The Middle East,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, February 21, 2011,  http://www.rferl.org/content/exporting_nonviolent_revolution_eastern_europe_mideast/2316231.html

[26] R Peters, op. cit.

[27] “Exporting the Non-violent Revolution,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, op. cit.

[28] “Exporting the Non-violent Revolution, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, ibid.

[29] “Exporting the Non-violent Revolution,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, ibid.

[30] Rikard Jozwiak, “EU Seeks ‘New Partnership’ With North Africa As It Condemns Libya Crackdown,” Radio Free Europe/Liberty, February 22, 2011, http://www.rferl.org/content/eu_new_partnership_north_africa_condemns_libya_crackdown/2317400.html

[31] Richard Creasy and Pete Sawyer, “The world’s most powerful secret society,” Punch Magazine, May 1998, republished: NewsConfidential, May 23, 1998, http://www.newsconfidential.com/FS/FS_Story.php?RequestID=60001

[32] Muammar al-Qaddafi, The Greek Book of the Third Universal Theory (1975), complete text: http://www.mathaba.net/gci/theory/gb.htm

K R Bolton is a Fellow of the Academy of Social and Political Research, and an assistant editor of the peer reviewed journal Ab Aeterno. Recent publications include 'Trotskyism and the Anti-Family Agenda,' CKR website, Sociology Dept., Moscow State University (October 2009); 'Rivalry over water resources as a potential cause of conflict in Asia,' Journal of Social Political and Economic Studies, and Russia and China: an approaching conflict?, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2010; Vol. 34, no. 2, Summer 2009. Read more articles by Dr. K R Bolton.