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P. Cockburn on how the revolution in Libya is going: "More than most armed struggles, the conflicts have been propaganda wars in which newspaper, television and radio journalists played a central role. In all wars there is a difference between reported news and what really happened, but during these four campaigns [Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria] the outside world has been left with misconceptions even about the identity of the victors and the defeated ... In Libya in 2011 the rebel militiamen, so often shown on television firing truck-mounted heavy machine-guns in the general direction of the enemy, had only a limited role in the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, which was mostly brought about by Nato air strikes... "In Tripoli two years ago hotels were filled to capacity with journalists covering Gaddafi’s fall and the triumph of the rebel militias. But state authority still hasn’t been restored. This summer Libya almost stopped exporting oil because the main ports on the Mediterranean had been seized by mutinying militiamen, and the prime minister, Ali Zeidan, threatened to bomb ‘from the air and the sea’ the oil tankers the militiamen were using to sell oil on the black market. "Libya’s descent into anarchy was scarcely covered by the international media since they had long since moved on to Syria, and more recently Egypt..." <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n19/patrick-cockburn/diary> On Oct 2, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Eli Stephens <elishasteph...@hotmail.com> wrote: > ...How's the "revolution" in Libya going, by the way? ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
