Glenn Greenwald hyperventilates about a WikiLeaks cable revealing that (gasp!) US oil companies didn’t like Qaddafi, as he betrays the Libyan rebels by portraying “regime change” as just a cynical conspiracy by Exxon & ilk.
Following recent charges that Israeli spook firms are recruiting mercenaries for Qaddafi come claims that the CIA is recruiting mercenaries for the Libyan rebels. Yet the rebel government had apparently arrested a team of these “mercenaries”…
Peruvian voters elected the fiery populist Ollanta Humala to the presidency, dealing a defeat to neoliberal candidate Keiko Fujimori—and precipitating a plunge in the Lima stock market.
A federal court in Florida issued a ruling in the case in re Chiquita Brands, allowing lawsuits brought by some 4,000 Colombians seeking compensation for violence by armed groups the company backed to move ahead.
Talks on a Mexico-Central America free trade zone wrapped up as long-standing regional political disputes were officially resolved. But increased integration comes with stepped-up “anti-crime” military efforts.
Beltway neocons are clearly heartened by the bloodshed, and see it as an opportunity to augment it with US bombardment, as in Libya. The Assad dictatorship meanwhile exploits the Israeli-occupied Golan Druze as a base of support.
Qatar, one of the few Arab states to have joined the NATO-led military coalition against Qaddafi’s regime, has deported back to Libya a woman who fled the country after being gang-raped by Qaddafi’s thugs.
Iran cheers protesters in Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain while apparently backing the repression in Syria—just as the US cheers protesters in Syria while backing the repression in Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain.
Rae Abileah, who interrupted Bibi Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, claims she was beaten by AIPAC activists—as congressmen cheered Bibi’s plans to illegally annex chunks of “Judea and Samaria.”
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez phoned Syria’s Bashar Assad to pledge his support in the face of “fascist conspiracies” and “imperialist aggressions”—seemingly a little confused as to who the fascists are.
The day after Obama’s speech, which sought to speak for protesters in the Arab world in the name of “free markets,” al-Qaeda issues a statement seeking to speak for them in the name a jihad against “crusader enemies.”
The myopic Israeli leadership seem not to get that Obama’s statement on the 1967 borders is part of his effort to domesticate the Arab Spring—which is in their own interests.
