And yet most in the corporate press prattle about human rights and “humanitarian intervention”.
Yes, Gaddafi is a brute but that’s nothing new. “Saving civilians” is the catch-cry of those backing NATO action.
But a close examination of Wikileaks documents and more honest reporting shows that Libyan oil nationalism was deeply worrying Western governments and multinational oil companies.
Hence, a bombing was justified on spurious grounds. Medialens examines the evidence.