| This video is a tribute to Brother Muammar Gaddafi (Arabic: مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī; born in June 1942), who at a young age led the revolution to overthrow Libya's ruling feudal monarch and pawn of US and Italian imperialism, King Idris. At the head of the Libyan Arab Socialist Jamahiriya, he led his nation on a massive program of social, technical, and cultural development. It is no exaggeration to talk of Gaddafi's Libya as a renaissance period for the people of this beautiful and cultured North African country. The Libyan people, in the 42 years of his leadership, rose from being literally the poorest on earth, to the wealthiest and most egalitarian in Africa. As a result of his consistent anti-imperialist stance, NATO imperialism took the opportunity presented by real popular upheaval in Libya's neighboring countries (the 2011 'Arab spring' uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt) to launch a vicious and genocidal war to topple his government, and rob the Libyan people of their social gains, their real diplomatic and anti-imperialist influence and - of course -- their mineral resources. After a brutal 7 months of carpet bombing, day and night, which claimed the lives of 100000 civilians, systematically targeting civilian infrastructure and destroyed entire cities, NATO's paid agents were directed to corner the heroic anti-imperialist leader of the resistance, and Lynched him cruelly and publically on 20 October 2011. Contrary to the vile assertions of the ... |
