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Fresh air in its finest form, I can see those supporting Iweala when she was appointed have gone silent, Fresh air pt 2 and 3 on the way

Boy be a man and accept u've been intellectually overpowered rather than look up old post, hurl insults and make a fool of yourself,

The guy is a nerve wreck coz he's delusional and paranoid, hence his homo-sexual and childish rants, Massa aint gonna save u nolongthing

BlackLibya:
Maybe, but there is scant an African country that has the money. If anyone should have done it, Algeria should have done it. They have the most money out of all of Libya's neighbors.

The problem is, Al-Jazeera supported the war, and Arabs watch Al-Jazeera like rednecks watch Fox News.

I'm sure if we ganged up we could come up with the money for it just like NATO did , None of those countries would have attacked Libya alone except the US( their citizens are docile as  africans ).

Your a good for nothing poke, Idiots like would be happy to bleach their skin or be reborn as a white man.You berate the colour of the woman who gave u life .You need to be locked up in a cage and used for experiments coz ur mind is farked big time. Are you that desperate that your goin thru my old posts?

Moreover i am always happy to see brothers who share the same pan african views not idiots like urself who look upon their history and self with disdain, and trust me man i do not whinge and i do not hide my identity, idiots like you would rather sit at the table with the white man rather than with ur fellow black man,

And for your info i do not copy and paste, Read some books and enlighten yourself so u wouldn't have to look thru other people's old post pervert.

We need a cuban style revolution with all the thieving politicians and ex-military officers either killed or jailed but prior to that  we need to carefully plan and restructure our socio-economic and political structure. A structure where government officials are paid minimum wage as the rest of us

Yes ooo as long as we are not united we are farked, take a look at europe in the pre-colonial era, when they were not killing each other they ganged up to exterminate us, the greatest fear of the european is a united africa, I am sure if a few countries in africa had sent in troops to assist one of the greatest brothers of this century , this war would have been over. How can we let a group of western countries with hidden agendas far from what will benefit the african dictate who should rule and who shouldn't .

I am sure if an african country attacks a poor country like Portugal the whole EU would unleash hell on that country, Why aren't we doing the same? What never ceases to amaze me is France that little piece of shit country still controls a few african countries.

If we were united back then and stopped bitching about old village rivalries we all would have avoided that genocidal era where millions of black brothers and sisters were killed,

@Cap28 from what what i've been reading na only something else fit cure the guy negrophobia,

The only way Africa will change is when we start to love ourselves and not aspire to be western. Take a look at the Kalahari bushmen, Pharmaceutical companies pay royalties to this tribe yearly to study how they live , what they eat e.t.c to further use to exploit others, but Africans have no interest in this , they'd rather buy panadol and neurofen because its been inculcated in them that the African way is uncivilized and barbaric,

I hope African women also wake up because i think they r the key to any change that will happen in Africa, they should start to see Christianity for what it really is and inoculate in their kids African culture, history and hatred for western ideologies that have undermined our very existence

all4naija:
I still agree with the idea of recognizing the NTC early. I don't know if most Nigerians could ever got over sentiments. The truth is that  the NTC is in power and people just need to accept it that way.

The South Africa that people were praising here is still the same nation that denied Dalai Lama visa to attend Tutu's 80the Birthday, due to economy interest. I wonder what people views would be on that.

President Jonathan did the very right thing!

apparently you've got no family members in Bani Walid or Sirte where NATO has murdered so many, Mind you  south africa refused to recognize  the NTC , they only did so  after most african nations succumbed to western pressure to recognize an illegitimate entity(Rats).

I once said it on a thread that this idiot soyinka is over rated and a puppet of the west in Nigeria, hes so inconsiderate to the plight of black africans murdered and raped by these rats in Libya

When the oppressed takes the whip off the oppressor and starts to crack that whip on him is that classed as racism?

Deep negrophobia in action,

by Chinweizu

Negrophobia, the fear and dislike of blacks, is a great disease. It has killed more blacks in the last five hundred years than all other diseases combined: more than malaria, more than epidemics and plagues of all sorts, In the coming years, it could kill far more than AIDS. It is a psychological disease, a disease of the mind, which harvests dead black bodies every day.

The blacks who died through slavery were killed by negrophobia. The blacks who died all over the globe from white colonial aggression were killed by negrophobia. The blacks who died in our liberation struggles - Bookman, Toussaint and Dessalines with all their soldiers in Haiti; the Mau Mau warriors in Kenya; the liberation fighters in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan and elsewhere — were all killed by negrophobia.

The blacks dying from the structures and policies of neocolonialism are dying from negrophobia. The blacks killed by AIDS, a disease manufactured by whites in the biological warfare labs of the USA and deliberately introduced into central Africa and Haiti to kill off blacks, are dying of negrophobia.

Ah, Negrophobia, I didn't know that hate could kill so many!

Negrophobia is a psychoneurosis, a mental disorder. So too is blancophilia, its twin. If someone hates everything black, including the black butterfly, including the most fertile black soil, isn't he mentally disturbed? If someone loves everything white, including white trash, including white arsenic, isn't he mentally disturbed? Negrophobia and blancophilia form a syndrome, a characteristic set of psychoneurotic passions that occur together.

The negrophobia syndrome is characterised by melanotropism. A magnetic movement away from or toward different intensities of melanin, the skin pigment. Blancophilia induces a reflex movement toward things white, even toward white ugliness. The stimulus object is white skin, any skin that is low in melanin.

Negrophobia, for its part, induces a reflex movement away from things black, even from black beauty. The stimulus object is black skin, any skin blessed with melanin in high dosage.

Negrophobia and blancophilia are, of course, conditioned responses to white power and black powerlessness. In a sad case of stimulus substitution, the responses to superior power have become transferred to white skin, and those to powerlessness have become transferred to black skin. The negrophobia syndrome is a chronic disease with the white race, a disease born of pride of power. It is a disease with which they have infected the whole world, including the black race, giving rise to negro negrophobia, the disease of black self-hate.

Negro negrophobia is a most absurd disease. Can you imagine some black running to escape his blackness? To escape from himself? His obsession with fleeing from himself proves he is unfit to live. His running to embrace his white enemy proves he is a suicide. The entire affair shows he is mad. Some call it alienation, a mental disorder. Yet some black sirens now sing in praise of alienation, beckoning all blacks to acquire the disease.

What are the symptoms of negro negrophobia? Negro negrophobia makes black women bleach, till some proudly sport yellow monkey faces and ebony-black thighs. (or ‘Fanta Orange face and Coca-cola legs’ as some call it). It makes black parents prefer their lighter skinned children to the darker skinned. It makes blacks who marry white or mulatto think they are marrying up and improving the race. It makes a pitch-black Sudanese proclaim himself Arab, on account of just one white Arab ancestor ten generations back; it makes him count as nothing, indeed as a blemish, all his 1,023 black ancestors in that generation, and all the millions before and since.

Negro negrophobia makes African-Americans, and now black South Africans too, believe that integrating white neigbourhoods is social advancement. It makes blacks desperate to integrate white schools, white churches, white communities, white ideologies, white movements and white organizations. Some would even gladly die to integrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Negro Negrophobia makes blacks defer to whites. It makes bright black boys, the thinkers of the race, obey the IMF, the World Bank, GATT and the UN, even when they know that the orders from such outfits are aimed to destroy their own people. It makes black intellectuals swallow and spout any silly idea, provided it is put forth by some guru of the white world, like Marx, like Jesus, like Mohammed.

Negro negrophobia makes blacks accept leaders of thought and of action that are chosen for them by whites. It makes blacks revere any third class mind, any tinpot potentate, that whites anoint to confuse and mislead them. But for negro negrophobia, we would automatically reject any leader chosen for us by our historic enemies. But for negro negrophobia, we would thoroughly suspect the loyalty to the black race of any black Rhodes Scholar, of any black Nobel laureate, of any black Faisal laureate, of any black Lenin laureate, of any black knight or peer of England, of any black elect of the French Academy. He would have to work extra hard to convince us that he is not an agent sent to help hasten our ruin.

Believing the blancophile dogma that white is right, that white is quick-witted, that white is beauty and virtue and salvation; believing the negrophobe dogma that black is wrong, that black is dumb, that black is ugliness and sin and damnation, the negrophobic black does not feel comfortable in a blacks-only group. Blacks-only associations give him claustrophobia; he must throw open the doors to let in some white skin to boss or spy on him; only then can he relax; only then can he feel that all is well with his world. Negro negrophobia is, thus, a disease which drives blacks to crave racial integration and to espouse continentalist Pan-Africanism.

In multi-racial societies, it drives the black elites to flee to white suburbs. In the name of racial equality, they decapitate their own black communities, rob the ghetto of black leadership, and abandon it to confusion and predatory gangs, In the name of black freedom they flee from the black world. Similarly, in international relations, pulled by the call of the white, blacks are eager to join a British Commonwealth. They are desperate to join a French Community. They sell their sanity to join a Russian Collective. And an Arab empire? They disown their black inheritance to get into its latrine! They will pay any price, suffer any humiliation, to join any club formed by whites. But a black community, or commonwealth, or league? They will not only not join, they will oppose its being formed at all! The idea of blacks getting together, all by themselves, disorganizes their being. In their blancophilia they are self-made orphans desperately seeking white foster homes. For all their outcry on behalf of the black community, all they want is to disappear into the whiteness of the white world, whether Arab or European. They want to disappear by any means possible or available — physically, mentally, emotionally.

In such ways, negro negrophobia has affected Pan-Africanism, affected Negritude, affected even the great leaders of these Black Redemption Movements. Senghor's Francophilia weakened his Negritude; made him ecstatic to join the "Universal Civilization" by becoming an elect of the French Academy.

Nkrumah's Arabophilia subverted the Garveyism of his Black Star symbol; it truncated his Pan-Negro Pan-Africanism into a continentalist Pan-Africanism which would exclude Garvey from membership of its organizations, and which distorted Pan-Africanism into an Arab and Black African tango.

With Du Bois, when the racial integrationism of his NAACP triumphed, it wrecked the black community in the USA; it bore the bitter fruit of black ghettos whose absentee black leaders squat in white suburbia, squawking as hostages to white power.

Cheikh Anta Diop's Marxism, with its dedication to the primacy of multi-racial class solidarity, made him most unenthusiastic about a sub-Sahara Federation of Black Africa. He would accept it only as a very last resort, only if the Arab invader-settlers doggedly excluded themselves.

Mandela's liberalism, with its dedication to the primacy of multi-racialism, is allset to subvert the cardinal goal of returning to the black aborigines of South Africa all the land stolen from them by the white invader-settlers.

Senghor, Nkrumah, Du Bois, Cheikh Anta Diop and Mandela are proof that not even the best among us are immune from the negrophobia syndrome. Of the great black redeemers of the 20th century, only Garvey escaped the syndrome, principally because he was unequivocal and uncompromising on black solidarity. Significantly, he did not call his movement Pan-Africanism, with all the equivocation on race that is harboured by that term; he called it the United Negro Improvement Association, a name which unequivocally implies a redemption movement of blacks, by blacks, for blacks.

To call yourself a leader of blacks, one leading them to liberation from the white world, and yet run off to integrate white suburbia— isn't that absurd? It can only mean that your Black Consciousness is shallow, or even opportunistic; that hiding under your black mask is a blancophile heart. To call yourself a leader of blacks, one leading them out of the prison cell of white power, and yet insist on bringing whites into every organization for blacks — isn't that folly of the first order? Those blacks who espouse continentalist Pan-Africanism, are they not like those Trojans who carried the Greek wooden horse into their own citadel, and hastened their people's destruction?

If you are such a black leader or intellectual, take a look at Michael Jackson and see the incarnation of your spirit, see your mind made flesh. Michael Jackson has most publicly done what black negrophobiacs secretly dream of doing: act out George Schuyler's great satire Black No More! Michael Jackson is the supreme, public example of negro negrophobia, which is why he is such a valuable negative example, which is why I just love Michael Jackson. Every racially integrating black, every continentalist Pan-Africanist black, is Michael Jackson minus opportunity. They are the social and political counterparts of Wacko Jacko, as the white press dubbed him. The only difference is that he has carried his negro negrophobia to its logical, physical conclusion — turn himself into a fake white man! Because the others cannot afford the cash or courage for the skin and bone surgery, they settle for the next best thing: they disappear into white communities, or integrate into white ideologies and white movements. Presumably, from seeing so many white faces around them at all times, they will lose sight of the fact that they themselves are black.

After being created and entrenched by five centuries of white power, Negro negrophobia has, alas, become a character neurosis. From one generation to another, black parents pass on to their children the neurotic character structures which foster negrophobic attitudes and behaviour. The global mechanisms of white power (religion, media, school, advertising, propaganda) then reinforce the neurosis.

Blacks, alas, cannot take control of the Black World until they are cured of this neurotic syndrome. Until they get rid of this neurotic plague, any white boy or girl or child can seize control of their affairs by flashing a bit of white skin. Proof? All you need do is introduce a white face among negrophobic blacks and they become disorganised, they become disoriented. Just put one ugly blondie among them, and their eyes will stray and their minds will wander from the doughnut before them and focus on the white hole. Some will be obsessed with desire for whitey; some will be obsessed with hate for whitey; either way, they lose touch with basic reality and ignore what they must do to keep control of their lives, their situation, their environment. And at that point, any white waif can take them over.

What then is the cure? That is for our medical and social scientists to investigate. But from the sidelines, let me observe that it may require psychotherapy, both individual and group therapy. It may require cultural therapy, with basic retraining to break the habits of the negrophobic syndrome and inculcate non-negrophobic habits of thought and valuation. It would be the job of homes, schools, media, and social organisations to bring up new generations untainted with Negrophobia and blancophilia. It may require, above all, environmental therapy of a political sort, through the emergence of at least one powerful black nation that would destroy the five-century -old correlation of white skin with power and black skin with powerlessness. That is probably the strategic cure for the syndrome.

My guess is that until the power therapy for this power neurosis is accomplished, all other therapies would be only partially effective. Whatever the case, until the race cures itself of negrophobia, it has no future. Which is why getting rid of Negro negrophobia is perhaps the cardinal task of internal reparation.

I beg to differ Morpheus, Freedom is a state of mind not something attained by assimilating to western ideologies, Capitalism(Greed) is one of them, the sooner you realize that the better because  it does not behoove any african country or its people to accept capitalism on its own without considering the socio-economic and political structure in place prior to the arrival of crackers.I'd be dammed to accept a model created and  imposed on africa by someone who had nothing but pillaging and looting in mind.

Africa has historically practiced communism and socialism because they are intrinsic and not extrinsic as purported by the West,In order for capitalism to work in africa it has to restructured to integrate some of our old values

You also fail to realize that the wish of almost all WHITES is to enslave and dominate  the african mentally,historically,  economically ,physically and spiritually,  Past and present actions around the world affirm  this.

Wake up , read and think while its still legal brother,

@cap28 Morpehus is a lost brother caught up in the labyrinth of academia, he will come home soon but with time as much as i respect Louis Farrakhan he has made his mistakes with Malcom X and Khalid muhammed but no one's perfect the main thing here is dont blame the teacher or preacher, did u get the farking message.

atleast its better than the internet service here in australia, you pay per gig

Giant my ass the only thing we are known for is Nollywood.

kabukabu:
Hilarious, Libya's standard of living is right on par with the US .The internet is full of lies but really you could have made an effort at least to disguise yours ;DLibya is an African venezuela,they pump oil,yes, but their infrastructure is second rate.Libya only has a population of 8 million people, they should all be living like the Kuwaitis ,if not better, but not even close.

Speaking of freedom,perhaps you can addresss the hundreds of Black Africans killed,imprisoned in Libya who were just seeking opportunities to pass through on their way to the Mediterranean?as far as I know millions of Mexicans have crossed over to the US , they don't get shot or imprisoned, they get citizenship for their kids,free healthcare/infant care and rights to even protest against the govt of a country they are in illegally, 


Do your due diligence my friend before you blabber about geopolitical issues that you are not open minded enough to discuss.

Your inertia to facts is mind-boggling, The standard of living was on par /better than that of the US where 10% control and own everything and the rest are slave laborers living off food stamps, Tell me how many Americans get free healthcare( r u farking kidding me?) last time i checked the US government  is proposing to increase the cost of healthcare services and scraping the Social security checks most people live on, How many Americans are indebted to the government and banks  for tertiary tuition fees and how many spend the rest of their life paying those debts with very high interests? the US is so scared of terrorism but fail to realize that cancer is a now a pandemic in the US, how many lives has their so called terrorism killed compared to Cancer?

   Do you know that freedom is a state of mind and not what you gain via democracy? how many Us citizens work 12hr shifts to support their lifestyle, how can you class the inability to balance work and social life  knowing you owe  debts freedom? Recent survey has shown that 50% of the blacks in most neighborhoods are unemployed?

   Do you know that Libyans are given loans without interest ? do you know that Arizona just passed a law that made it legal to  detain anyone  based on assumption  they are  an illegal alien? I am sure you already know that most mexicans and nepalese are currently the new slave laborers in the US since blacks now have some sort of right and wont take stipends? that's even if they get offered a job in the first place

   And libya cannot be compared with Kuwait and some other arabian countries where women are not even allowed to drive, Ghadaffi gave women more rights in libya , Have u even considered reading about some of the plans Ghadaffi had for his country/ prior to this fiasco , I am sure he could forsee this happening that's why he tried to create a Pan-african bank,  and how can u believe the medias propaganda about Ghadaffi killing blacks and people enroute to europe when NATO failed to rescue blacks that were on a boat leaving libya coz of the war they started?

Think while its still legal brother

kabukabu50:
How boneheaded of you , So they are "radicals maniacs" because they are overthrowing a despot ruler who has been in power for 40 years,filling his bank accts with billions while imprisoning opposition party members for no reason.??

Nigeria has no right to complain, just airlift all your citizens away from there, just like other countries do wherever there is local conflict.

Clearly seen that you've been brainwashed with fake reports and news on CNN and BBC , tell me if Ghadaffi was a despot enriching himself and his family why was libya's standard of living better than that of americans? last time i checked no one bombed the US or sanctioned them when they arrested members of the black panthers in the US because they vehemently opposed racism and fought  for black freedom, no one also sanctioned them when they killed their own in WACO, the sooner you realize that this whole uprising in libya has been a facade for western recolonization of africa the better for u

As much as i'm appalled at black brothers being lynched and commiserate with their families , i hope it does not give NATO a reason to officially deploy ground troops in Libya, I'd rather have the AU handle this.

starfox:
You better pray that Nigeria does not come next. You talk about Libyan's standard of Living. The Libyans have never said they were fighting for a better standard of living, what they and the whole Arab youths are fighting for is self fulfillment.

Humans are born of a free spirit, even God recognizes that. However, when a 'leader' or brother leader as in the case of Gaddafi sends jets to bomb his own people, you can be sure that what is happening can only result. As for Other countries grabbing Libyan oil, that has happened throughout history and we will have done the same for say a Togo or Benin.

If you give Nigerians the choice of giving the west 50% of its Oil & Gas assets for a standard of living akin to that of say Libya (which is been praised in this thread), most Nigerians will sign off on it afterall, our politicians are doing worse.

All this whining from Africans about the west must stop. If you are given a green visa to these western countries, you guys will jump at the chance. You will go there and enjoy the economy forgetting that the resources were taken from elsewhere.

Please lets give all these talks a rest.

Thank you.

Its already happening though not by guns and bombs  but through austerity measures badluck is implementing in nigeria, you talk about nigerians giving the west 50% of their gas and assets without realizing  western powers own 99% of what nigeria has,  since the price of everything  is set by them , Tell me should the buyer set the price for the seller? are you also trying infer that africa is inferior and shouldn't be on a level playing field with europe , asia and the rest knowing fully well we are a lot richer than these countries/continents as a whole, someone is definitely suffering from serious inferiority complex

The fact that you'd believe anything reported by western media agencies definitely shows your either myopic or just blatantly ignorant in regards to lies that have been purported by these agencies in all wars ( Vietnam, Iraq,Afghanistan) ,  how can you still believe that Ghadafi bombed his own people after seeing how Europe/America independently twisted a No fly zone policy to bombing libya citizens and destroying Libyans infrastructure. Did you know that MI6 and CIA agents had been in libya prior to the so called uprising? 

  What you  also fail to realize that any black man in any western country is a second class citizen/human being , irrespective of how much they try to brand their countries  as  multicultural  its all jibberish and false, Do u have any idea how Native indians and aboriginals are treated in THEIR OWN country,  how do u think migrants are treated? so spare me the crap about enjoying anything from the west knowing fully well all we blacks get is scrap from the table from what has been STOLEN from US , think while its still legal brother

vinkela:
Gaddafi is just a victim of the corrupting effect of absolute power.He now think he is a God.He may have performed better than most Nigerian leaders in the past but that doesn't mean that if the libyan people no longer want him he should remain in office. besides look into this man's past and see so many atrocities he has committed.let the will of the libyan people prevail thats my take.for the rebels i still have my reservations towards them but lets watch as events unfold though. old though.

Clearly shows that you have been disillusioned by western media propaganda? if its the will of the people that ghadaffi's ousted why did 1million come to the square to show their support? you seem to forget that the same war rhetoric was used when the US invaded Iraq and afghanistan? Do you seriously think the rebels would have been a match against the people of libya if they had no air support from imperialist europe and america? Have you forgotten so quick that libya was one of the poorest countries in the world prior to ghadaffi's sucession of power? Do you know that libya's political structure is far better than the democratic structure present in africa today where corrupt and pot bellied idiots decide the fate of a country ? havent u seen that democrazy has been a facade for westernn imperialism in africa? think while its still legal brother.

stagger:
Let me say it here categorically:

If I was the leader of the Transitional Council, I would have done the same thing.

How many rebel insurrections in the world have ever succeeded on a stand-alone basis?

Kosovo was helped by NATO's demolition of Serbia. The Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF) got a lot of help from neighbouring countries to take out the Hutu government and end the 1994 genocide.

Let us face facts. Which country will spend millions of Euros or Dollars in arms, ammunition. logistical support and food/medical aid to help a rebel group just like that, as if they don't have problems at home/

In global economics and politics, NOTHING GOES FOR NOTHING. All the people given political appointments here in Naija were all contributors to GEJ's campaign one way or another.

The Libyan rebels simply used what they could offer to get what they wanted.

So make una 4get all the BS yans about slavery and colonialism and all that balgerdash. I support what the Libyan rebels did 100%. At least they have an ideal they are fighting for: FREEDOM!

Our own government officials were busy selling off our public companies to their cronies and pocketing the monies. What ideals are they fighting for?

Your on here ranting on about how european countries invaded a sovereign country just for the sake of their resources?  how many african countries have interferred in european matters? How many true uprisings in the world have been backed  by the US without hidden economic agendas? last time i checked they killed Lumumba,Sankara,Nkrumah and replaced them with dictators to do their bidding, they also had Idi-amin in power till he chased them out of the country,

 If Ghadaffi was a tyrant why is  libyas standard of living the best in africa  , even better than america( food stamp country) and nigeria?
Do you know how many black brothers in Libya are killed everyday by the rebels claiming they r merceneries?

 I hope u know nigeria is next and it could be ur house  thats bombed when it happens

achorjp:
D rebels should try n capture Gaddafi alive wt his son, let them die a slow n most painful death like Doe.

What your brainwashed mind fails to realize is that Nigeria is already dying a slow death with the new puppets in power, implementing austertity measures devised by stooges of multinational corporations and banking cartels in the west, just remember I said so when fuel turns to 150 naira per litre and for all those criticizing Ghadaffi just wait and see who's next on the list , i'm sure we've all heard of boko haram,

@all4naija and bastage

For those quoting crap from these western corporations let me take you back to history, i'm sure you all remember the vietnam war this is an exert from a publication explaining how the western media started an unjust war that claimed 2million plus Vietnamese lives

American Planes Hit North Vietnam After Second Attack on Our Destroyers; Move Taken to Halt New Aggression", announced a Washington Post headline on Aug. 5, 1964.

That same day, the front page of the New York Times reported: "President Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and 'certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam' after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin."

But there was no "second attack" by North Vietnam — no "renewed attacks against American destroyers." By reporting official claims as absolute truths, American journalism opened the floodgates for the bloody Vietnam War.

In 1965, Lyndon Johnson commented: "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there."

But Johnson's deceitful speech of Aug. 4, 1964, won accolades from editorial writers. The president, proclaimed the New York Times, "went to the American people last night with the somber facts." The Los Angeles Times urged Americans to "face the fact that the Communists, by their attack on American vessels in international waters, have themselves escalated the hostilities."

An exhaustive new book, The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam, begins with a dramatic account of the Tonkin Gulf incidents. In an interview, author Tom Wells told us that American media "described the air strikes that Johnson launched in response as merely `tit for tat' — when in reality they reflected plans the administration had already drawn up for gradually increasing its overt military pressure against the North."

Why such inaccurate news coverage? Wells points to the media's "almost exclusive reliance on U.S. government officials as sources of information" — as well as "reluctance to question official pronouncements on 'national security issues.'"

Daniel Hallin's classic book The "Uncensored War" observes that journalists had "a great deal of information available which contradicted the official account [of Tonkin Gulf events]; it simply wasn't used. The day before the first incident, Hanoi had protested the attacks on its territory by Laotian aircraft and South Vietnamese gunboats."

What's more, "It was generally known, that `covert' operations against North Vietnam, carried out by South Vietnamese forces with U.S. support and direction, had been going on for some time."

We should not also forget Iraq and  the media propaganda of Saddam's WMD and baby killings, I ask you all WHERE IS THE FUCKING WMD

Now lets look at Libya, Havent u realized that the Media companies have always reported from the rebels side? how has a no fly zone mandate by the UN turned into air raids and attacks on innocent civilians? they said they were there for humanitarian purposes , why is Libya on the brink of humanitarian disaster?  

How many times has the US cracked down on its on citizens using guns and even bombs? How many real dictators who have acheived nothing in comparison to Ghadaffi are supported by the US?

 Think and read while its still legal .

@sweetnaija or whatever u call urself, do u even read the news? do you know whats going to happen with the austerity measures badluck is implementing in naija? Arent you worried sweet naija is next? , brainwashed malus like you are the ones dampening the minds of the nigerian youths who should see whats really happening

very informative videos and posts on here , i hope america knows whats coming to them, they will reap what they have sown , their quest for military and ecomonic dominance will lead them to oblivion, Every rome will always fall

I cant hold it in anymore just have to say i'm aghast at how african leaders can watch all this unravel in libya and expect it not to happen in their country  and this includes Zuma regardless of his speech, African leaders should have protested and sent in troops to assist Gaddafi, i believe tenebrous economic times around the world which i still have doubts about  should act as a stimuli to creating an african socio-economic renaissance since democracy and western capitalism has not favoured us?

I'm also dismayed at how myopic, senseless  and brainwashed some people on nairaland, ranting on about how ghadaffi murdered his own people , People are too quick to forget that the same Americans and  nato gangsters told us Saddam had WMD and took babies out of their incubators blah blah blah, Can't these dumb people see this is the same thing happening all over again, let us also not forget that the libyans had a higher standard of living than most Americans , coz we all know america is now a food stamp country

  As for the so called no fly zone mandate by the UN, I have pondered at how swift it changed to providing intelligence, carrying out air raids , destroying communication hubs,dropping guns and ammunition, providing mercenaries ? last time i checked the the UN mandate never said choose Sides, Shouldn't this be a reason for the withdrawal of african countries from this organization considering the fact the UN has not sanctioned all participating countries in these devilish acts despite criticism from its own security council member country( Russia)?

In addition the Libyans did not publicly demand for a change, NATO is trying to force is down their throat!!, and i am sure some people will quote poo from CNN reporters in libya , haven't we noticed that CNN and other media agencies have always reported from the rebel side? and for some reason i have that funny scary feeling this has definitely given the US and other European countries a reason to set up military bases in Africa,as i am sure Libya will eventually turn into a new iraq simply coz Ghadaffi supporters will fight to the end and this could take years, the UK is already considering deploying ground forces to assist with the so called transition which we all know as protecting their interest.

Wow,

cap28:
let me wake you up to reality - the hausa fulani oligarchy have been ruling nigeria for 50 years, who do you think installed them in power in 1960?

the british helped the hausa fulani elites to rig the 1960 elections, they even tampered with the 1959 census which ensured that the northerners would rule nigeria for perpetuity, this is why the january 1966 coup had to be stopped in its tracks and labelled an igbo coup when in fact it was a NATIONALIST coup designed to remove the british approved northern puppet govt of tafawa balewa and ahmadu bello (who was the power behind the throne)

what is the difference between being ruled by a succession of northern elites for 50 years and one man for 42 years?

at least gadaffi actually used the oil revenues to improve the living standards of his people - what did the northerners do for the average nigerian? they didnt even help the poor in their region, just other elites within the same clique.

spare me the sanctimonious drivel - libya as at 1969 when gadaffi seized power in a bloodless coup was one of the poorest nations in the world - within a space of 40 years, gadaffi modernised the country, provided a social welfare safety net in order to ensure no-one was homeless or starving and offered scholarships to anyone who was interested in furthering their education right up to university level -all this was done despite 12  years of draconian economic sanctions imposed on the country by the west   - what have your own leaders done for you?

with the possible exception of probably buhari and maybe the late murtala muhammed who are both hated by the west can you tell me which nigerian leader that has ever done anything constructive for the average nigerian?

by the way murtala muhammed was assasintated by the CIA and buhari was toppled by another CIA sponsored coup and replaced with traitor in cheif babangida who sold nigeria lock stock and barrell to the IMF, so what is your point?

obasanjo and babangida are the biggest traitors nigeria has ever produced they are the main architects of nigeria's economic woes but do you see the west criticising them?  obasanjo is untouchable - he has godfathers in washington who are protecting him thats why he is still alive - same thing with babangida - but these individuals committed some of the most heinous crimes you will ever imagine against the nigerian people.  Isnt it ironic that  a man like gadaffi who refused to allow american and british oil companies to rampage through his country  is the one that is now in fear of his life while known criminals like obasanjo and babangida can walk around in nigeria as free men?

Always on point my brother, Sadly some Africans including nigerians still believe they got independence in 1963, but i sure can't blame them as most nigerians are intellectually enslaved as i once was ,

as for this whole libya and triploi fiasco i always knew it was going to end this way because the Rebel leaders themselves (Obama and Sarkozy) know their time is up in Libya and in their respective countries so now they r trying everything they can to misinform their dumb citizens and fellow Africans,

i even read something about congress demanding that their rascals( NTC ) detain the lockerbie bomber so the picture is clear they r trying everything they can to garner support,

I hope Ghadaffi is strong both financially and mentally to withstand all this,

This post should be taken off and the OP banned, Dont criticize the messenger, DID U GET THE FARKING MESSAGE!!!!

The writing has been on the wall for years, Sadly the future american taxpayers are the ones who are going to have to bear the burden,

Can forsee all this going to the scrap yard soon.