Celebrations have begun in earnest across East Libya, particularly in the major city of Benghazi, where locals have replaced the Gadhafi regime’s flag with the flag of the former Libyan Kingdom, now the flag of Free Libya.
Across Benghazi fireworks and loud music are being reported. The violence is over here, and the people have prevailed over the tyrant. Hospital officials say that the city saw some 320 protester deaths, likely the largest in the eastern half of the nation, and residents have also begun to take some time out of their celebrations to restore basic services, and have begun talks to set up an informal interim government, pending elections.
Exactly where they go from here remains to be seen, but the whole of East Libya, the historical province of Cyrenaica, is reportedly entirely out of Gadhafi’s reach now, and that appear to be more or less permanent. Meanwhile, protesters in Western Libya are carving out additional holding, liberating ever more cities from the government’s clutches, and leaving Gadhafi with at best contested rule over Tripoli and a handful of other cities.
For now the regime is still insisting that they are going to reclaim the country, but this appears to be a pipe dream, and their continued rule over what is left of Old Libya can likely be measured now in a matter of days.
The violent reaction of the Gadhafi regime to the protests has been nothing short of shocking, and has prompted a number of international figures to raise the prospect of military intervention to “save” the protesters. Beyond its complicating factors, this seems wholly unnecessary at this point, as the regime is clearly on its way out, and “foreign occupiers” are perhaps the only thing left that could grant them even a modicum of crediblity. Libya, minus a few cities that have yet to completely fall, is free now, and they did it entirely without the international community’s help, and indeed with early international backing for the regime.
Great reporting good sir! A lot of people are not connecting the dots. This is the fall of American satellites. This is happening now because and only because the US empire is collapsing. Libya, egypt, tunisia etc. These are economic indicators to see how well the US economy and its empire is doing. Forget about interest rates and inflation indexes. Look at what is happening in egypt and libya. That is all the proof I need to show that the US is bankrupt and is on its way of collapsing.
I second you onthis Keith…
We can as a matter of fact look at it from other perspective.Remember U.S.S.R.
it dominated my countries of central Asia and Eastern Europe and made them its colonies.Once the Empire started crumbling all these countries one by one liberated and sooner USSR was history.Well in the name of CAPITALISM,USA did the same thing.Dominating Middle East and other majore regions setting up 750 military bases,while implanting his Puppets.Today Empire is about to meet its own fate soon.So lets hope we in our life time see the world more free and without under American NWO sh''''''t.
American imperialistic ambitions were indeed accomplished in the name of so-called [free market] capitalism. However, in actual practice and implementation what the United States government created was a series of puppet satellites based upon a neomercantilist economic framework. This is akin to invading Iraq in the name of liberty and freedom while in reality the goal of this task was quite otherwise.
While its author seems a little too quick to discount "the desire for liberty" as a motivating force behind the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the following article proposes an interesting connection between the Empire's destructive monetary policy and the ongoing revolutions:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner455.html
I find it comical that Obama and Co. babble about what is right or wrong while keeping its diddler in the Middle Easts rear. Best if they just shut the hell up and let people sort things out for themselves. Any "rescuing" of any spontaneous movement would rightly be construed as interfering.
What's the meaning of this flag of the "former Libyan Kingdom"? After all, the "former Libyan Kingdom" was aligned with the U.K. and the U.S. How can we be so sure that the anti-Gaddafi movement hasn't been CIA-infiltrated? I hope that's not true, and I wish the Libyan people success in achieving THEIR OWN revolution, but I just hope it really is THEIR OWN and not something that's been infiltrated by the U.S. empire. I'm just not sure we know enough yet to judge what's going on, but partitioning Libya into three (or more) tribal areas could be exactly what U.S. oil interests have in mind.
Surely the British and its American pimp would like to "save" the protesters so that the more things change the more they stay the same. As if we didn't know that what they really want to save is their investments and influence.