{"id":18839,"date":"2016-03-14T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2016-03-14T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:58:49","slug":"exposing-the-libyan-agenda-a-closer-look-at-hillarys-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18839","title":{"rendered":"Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary\u2019s Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary\u2019s\u00a0Emails<\/a><\/h3>\n
Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton\u2019s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty.<\/em><\/div>\n
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The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Libya in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a \u201cvictory lap.\u201d \u201cWe came, we saw, he died!\u201d she crowed\u00a0in a CBS video interview<\/a>\u00a0on hearing of the capture and brutal murder of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.<\/p>\n

But the victory lap, write\u00a0Scott Shane and Jo Becker in the New York Times<\/a>, was premature. Libya was relegated to the back burner by the State Department, \u201cas the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that would destabilize the region, fueling the refugee crisis in Europe and allowing the Islamic State to establish a Libyan haven that the United States is now desperately trying to contain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities; but human rights organizations\u00a0questioned the claims<\/a>\u00a0after finding a\u00a0lack of evidence<\/a>. Today, however, verifiable atrocities are occurring. As\u00a0Dan Kovalik wrote<\/a>\u00a0in the Huffington Post, \u201cthe human rights situation in Libya is a disaster, as \u2018thousands of detainees [including children] languish in prisons without proper judicial review,\u2019 and \u2018kidnappings and targeted killings are rampant\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment\u00a0were free<\/a>; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an\u00a0original system of local democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary\u2019s\u00a0Emails Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton\u2019s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[204,6716,8215,1120,484,536,12943,553,3742,7693],"class_list":["post-18839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-democracy","tag-ellen-brown","tag-email-scandal","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-libya","tag-money","tag-muammar-el-qaddafi","tag-nato","tag-qaddafi","tag-web-of-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18840,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions\/18840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}