{"id":11922,"date":"2011-10-31T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T07:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=11922"},"modified":"2011-10-31T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T07:59:57","slug":"west%e2%80%99s-1-salivates-over-spoils-of-the-libyan-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/international-relations-analysis-middle-east\/west%e2%80%99s-1-salivates-over-spoils-of-the-libyan-99\/","title":{"rendered":"West\u2019s 1% salivates over spoils of the Libyan 99%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11923\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/libya-oil-map.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11923\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11923\" title=\"libya-oil-map\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/libya-oil-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/libya-oil-map.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/libya-oil-map-145x93.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-11923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Question: Who is set to financially benefit from the sacrifices of the 99% (okay, maybe it wasn&#8217;t quite that many, but you know what I mean) of Libyans who risked their lives in the revolution? A: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/29\/world\/africa\/western-companies-see-libya-as-ripe-at-last-for-business.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\" href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/West%20Salivating%20Over%20Libya\">The 1% of American and European CEOs<\/a>, especially the fossil fuel industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The guns in Libya have barely quieted, and NATO\u2019s military assistance to the rebellion that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi will not end officially until Monday. But a new invasion force is already plotting its own landing on the shores of Tripoli. Western security, construction and infrastructure companies that see profit-making opportunities receding in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned their sights on Libya&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Libya has Africa\u2019s largest oil reserves, which eventually should mean a steady supply of cash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember the &#8220;no blood for oil&#8221; anti-Iraq War slogan from nine years ago? Seems like the U.S., U.K., France, and their allies paid heed. No Western blood was spilled &#8211; only Libyan! &#8211; for The West (under cover of NATO bombing) to gain access to this impoverished country&#8217;s fossil fuel reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever one thinks of\u00a0The West&#8217;s role in this revolution, it should not have a free pass to engage in more <a title=\"Oil Imperialism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calpeacepower.org\/0302\/oil.htm\">oil imperialism<\/a>. Soon enough, the &#8220;99%&#8221; of Libyans may well be marching in the streets, demanding an eviction of the American and European oil-garchies.\u00a0#OCCUPYLIBYA, coming soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDOWEISS, MATTHEW TAYLOR: Whatever one thinks of The West&#8217;s role in this revolution, it should not have a free pass to engage in more oil imperialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":11923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,82,325,346],"tags":[24,2009,3148,18333,18321,18332,5756,3181,406,4561,471,18337,18302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}