Stephen Lendman
America's media staunchly back all US imperial wars, regurgitating officials lies as truths. Moreover, they never explain their illegality or daily crimes of war and against humanity against civilians, as well as non-military related infrastructure and other sites.
Nor do they report how NATO bombing prevents targeted nations (including Libya) from providing essential public services, including enough food, medical care, electricity, fuel, and clean water.
Nonetheless, America's led Libya war may have backfired. In Tripoli, Middle East/Central Asian analyst Mahdi Nazemroaya told Progressive Radio News Hour listeners that NATO bombing united Libyans behind Gaddafi to save their country.
Instead, American and Western media falsify reports, claiming:
● non-existent rebel gains;
● Tripoli may fall;
● the country may collapse;
● Gaddafi has little support when, in fact, mass rallies turn out in Tripoli and elsewhere for him;
● few civilians have been killed or injured when, in fact, around 1,200 or more have been killed, many thousands more injured;
● NATO only attacks military targets when, in fact, civilian ones are deliberately struck; and
● Tripoli is a ghost town, when, in fact, life goes on relatively normally in spite of daily bombings.
In other words, falsified reports suppress reality on the ground, including that NATO miscalculated. As a result, it's losing because Libyans are united against lawless, naked aggression, refusing to let their country become another imperial trophy.
Knowing Libya's been there before, they want none of it. Moreover, they understand Washington's Middle East/North Africa agenda to colonize the entire region, militarize and balkanize it, control its resources, steal its wealth, and exploit its people ruthlessly. It's why all US wars are fought, never for humanitarian reasons.
It's the same dirty game Washington and its coalition allies repeat against all nations less than totally under their control, especially resource-rich ones. As a result, Libya was targeted for takeover, a plan that may, in fact, have backfired.