US seeks to keep Libya unstable: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Alex Powers, a member of the Veterans Today Africa, to discuss the ongoing battle between forces loyal to the Libyan unity government and the Daesh terrorists in the northern city of Sirte.

Here is a rough transcription of the interview:

Press TV: How important is the battle for Sirte in the bigger picture in the overall war against ISIS in Libya?

Powers: Well I think it is a good move forward but I think we have to consider the whole broad-spectrum and the whole history that we are looking at right now with regards to first the murder of Gaddafi by cutouts from France, England, United States, then you have the funding and covert weapon supplying of a whole bunch of different militias that has just razed the entire country which was a beautiful [country] and now it is a disaster.

So now that you have Hillary Clinton who looks like she will be in the White House, now it looks like the Americans are going to really make a good push in the killing off all the people they were basically supporting prior to get rid of Gaddafi and keep that area unstable and of course move into Iraq and Syria as part of their project.

I think on a day-to-day news story it is good but in the big picture it is a very sad situation. As a pan-Africanist, you have to cry a little bit because Gaddafi for whatever people say, he’s bad guy or good guy, he wanted to change Africa which has been exploited forever and he wanted to finally industrialize Africa, organize Africa, create a financial system that benefited Africa because that is the real reason why Gaddafi was murdered. The reality is that he wanted an African currency backed by gold and other resources the West could not compete. They simply cannot, they would have gone bankrupt and it would have changed the entire dynamic of this order that they have spent 300 years to build it.

So that in the big scheme it is the real issue, is anyone going to finally step up and deal with the fact that Gaddafi was a head of state and was murdered and it was financed by France, Britain and United States and there is no International Criminal Court, there is no Hague, there is nothing.

You have Hillary Clinton basically admitting on national TV that we came, we conquered, he died, laughing about it, it is unbelievable frankly and like I said I cannot be a hundred percent supporter of Gaddafi, maybe none of these dictators are pleasant people but in the big scheme of things the Libyans were doing very, very well. They had very nice infrastructure, they had good financing, most Libyans when they got married they got 50,000 dollars and they did not have to pay back, they got education, they lived well, compared to Africa they lived very well and Africa was really benefiting from Gaddafi and it feared the West and that is why they killed him.

And so yes, you have a win today for the West. They will put in their new puppet, the area will have a new Central Bank and Africa is going to stay poor, they will not have their essential currencies. So they won. That is my opinion.  

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