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Many people uncritically assume that the current Western war on Libya, which includes Canadian warriors, is aimed at bringing freedom. No doubt, the Libyan people have suffered under the Qadhdhaafi dictatorship (a dictatorship that used executions as surely and as wickedly as do Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, and the USA)… but they were suffering under the last seven years of the Western courtship with Libya. And innocent people also suffer under numerous Western-backed dictatorships or occupations, as in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Israeli-occupied Palestine, and many other countries. It’s absurd to assume that countries would spend literally billions of dollars to “bring freedom,” when those same countries spend billions to suppress freedom elsewhere. Countries spend billions in order to get billions. If you understand that and nothing else, you’ll understand more about how the world works than someone who knows everything but that.  Libya possesses trillions of dollar...

Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report writes: "The United States is directly complicit in what the United Nations has called the 'worst humanitarian disaster' in Africa. "The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, launched in late 2006 with massive air, naval and logistical support from the Americans, has resulted in the displacement of 3.5 million people, 700,000 from the capital city of Mogadishu, alone. "More than two-and-a-half million Somalis face starvation – a figure that could rise to three-and-a-half million by the end of this year. "A recent Amnesty International report on human rights violations in Somalia, said Ethiopian soldiers have begun “slaughtering Somalis like goats” – meaning, killing them by cutting their throats. Amnesty International’s Deputy Africa Director put it this way: 'The people of Somalia are being killed, raped, tortured; looting is widespread and entire neighborhoods are being destroyed.' "The U.S. has made Ethiopia it...