Community | February 22, 2011 | 39 comments

Gaddafi Turns US and British Guns On His People

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AvfATCBmJg

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Hamid Dabashi: Gaddafi gained power as anti-imperialist, made deal with Bush and pushed neo-liberal economics.

Born on June 15,1951 into a working class family in the south-western city of Ahvaz in the Khuzestan province of Iran, Hamid Dabashi received his early education in his hometown and his college education in Tehran, before he moved to the United States, where he received a dual Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. He is currently the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in his field. He has also taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab and Iranian universities. His books include Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future (2001), Iran: A People Interrupted (2007), and The Green Movement and the USA: The Fox and the Paradox (2010).
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39 comments // Gaddafi Turns US and British Guns On His People // Video

  • Warren_Merrill
  • remanns
  • GENERALNATTY
    • 0
      GENERALNATTY  

    • Well those people better hope the military turns against him soon , because muammar gaddafi will kill a 100000 of em to avoid being put on trial in the hague.

    • 1 year ago
  • damush
    • +1
      damush  

    • I am so glad we breed our own terrorist with a proper education. Thank God I dropped out of high school to see the difference!

    • 1 year ago
  • HeroMAY
  • Vierotchka
  • Ricky84
  • Vierotchka
    • +3
      Vierotchka  
    • Ricky84:

      You don't need a "post history" to make it rise to the first page. What you need to do is to send the link to all your followers. The more followers you have, the more hits you will get, the more comments you will get, the more likely you are to get it to rise to the first page.

    • 1 year ago
  • myea
    • +2
      myea  

    • You can once again look to GW Bush for this. Yes, Gaddafi made in roads towards redemption but GW Bush should have insisted on Gaddafi taking more concrete steps toward democracy or a the very lest stop his human right abuses, when he lifted U.S. sanctions against Libya 2008. But he didn’t and now what should be a peaceful protest is being over run with violence and people being gunned down with American weapons. Yes, Gaddafi is to blame but if things had been handled correctly when sanctions were lifted, would we even be in this situation. Obama can’t be left out of this either(and I hate to dump any of this on him because he has a lot on his plate right now) because if he is continuing the same polices concerning Libya as Bush then this is partly his problem too.

    • 1 year ago
  • maasanova
    • +2
      maasanova  

    • Interesting that USIsrael is being fairly quiet on this, with Obama being completely silent as usual on things that really matter.

    • 1 year ago
  • theknopfknows
    • -1
      theknopfknows  

    • WACKY DAFFY GADDAFI, everyone knows he is a paranoid Freak! Killer who hates his own people and murder is a solution. OBAMA sold him a large arms package 4 months ago, British sell him crowd control tactics, rifles teargas etc. Communist China buys 15% of Libya oil, Europe 10% of Libya oil, 5 million People for Wacky Gaddafi that Western powers OBAMA who are you NOW! Protecting communist China investments,few hours ago Communist China made arrangements with Russia for oil and currency mkt. Communists buying GOLD, Wacky Daffy Gaddafi will not stop until someone kills him until then RIVERS OF BLOOD. Gaddafi has already called protesters drug addicts compares the people to ANTS-insects to be stepped on, THIS GUY IS CRAZY AND USA UK sells arms to crazy Gaddafi! Who wears the blood now OBAMA! Look at your bloody hands, OBOMBA! Gaddafi Human Drone killer!

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • treewolf39
  • Nephwrack
    • +5
      Nephwrack  

    • so pretty much exactly what's happening here. we spend too much money on defense and don't invest any of our money on our own people. you can shear a sheep a dozen times, but you can only skin it once.

    • 1 year ago
  • hindotka
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • neocongo
  • treewolf39
  • Nephwrack
  • Nephwrack
  • neocongo
    • 0
      neocongo  
    • Nephwrack:

      I understand the US has sold weapons all over the world and to some very dubious leaders. My point is, so has any super or semi super power that mass produces weapons, including Russia.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
    • +1
      treewolf39  
    • Nephwrack:

      We all knew about Egypt and tolerated it because of the Israeli conflict. Libya, on the other, hand has been the target of our military bombs that killed one of Gaddafi's sons years ago. Frankly this should be a giant wakeup call to Americans about how out of control our military complex has gotten. We are arming and training our enemies. THAT is fucking treason!

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
    • +2
      Vierotchka  
    • treewolf39:

      It was Reagan who bombed Libya in 1986, and killed Gaddafi's 15-month-old adopted daughter. No son of his was hurt or killed.

      Edit: I was wrong - two of his sons were injured in that raid.

    • 1 year ago
  • Roldan
    • +3
      Roldan  
    • neocongo:

      Yeah, but isn't the US the paragon of Justice and Democracy?

      At least Russia, China, etc have never claimed to be the defenders & representatives of so lofty standards, so it's only logical that people demand of the US higher ethical standards at all levels, and this includes having an honest closer look on to whom it sells arms and on whom those armaments are used on (usually on students, the poor, protesters demanding justice and better living conditions, etcetera)

      But I suspect the problem, again, is money.

      Where there is money to be made and military and economical interests to be protected, then ethical, moral and humanitarian obligations and considerations take last place (if any place at all) on the list of priorities compiled in the boardrooms, war rooms and all the high places where the decisions are conceived and made.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nephwrack
  • treewolf39
  • treewolf39
  • hindotka
  • hindotka
  • samthesixth
  • Vierotchka
    • +2
      Vierotchka  
    • hindotka:

      Where in my post did I express sympathy with Gaddafi? I do however profoundly regret the brutal killing of an innocent toddler, which has nothing to do with my feelings about that insane tyrant.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • Vierotchka
    • 0
      Vierotchka  
    • hindotka:

      As for Reagan bombing Libya, it was a very stupid thing to do and had not a single of the effects Reagan hoped for. Reagan had been hankering after making such a raid and used the terrorist attack in a disco in Germany (in which 2 American airmen died) to do so, claiming without any evidence that Gaddafi was behind that attack.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • Danny_Mcstotts
    • 0
      Danny_Mcstotts  
    • hindotka:

      Your the one posting stories whining that the price of gas is going to go up because of the social unrest.............I would say your the one that's heartfelt that Qaddafi is losing his power, typical right wing fascist sociopathic shill here in hindotka... Get a real job and WORK for your money

    • 1 year ago
  • samthesixth
  • Nephwrack
  • MizPiz
  • ZiggyStrange
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