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ATLANTIC COUNCIL Is LigyA A “GLOBAL CON”? ATLANTIC COUNCIL “GLOBAL CON”? LIBYA The uprising in Libya is not so mucha people’s revolution as a terrorist-led action that’s been in the making for three decades with the support of key western intelligence agencies and now NATO, in collusion with corporate and media interests. Conflicts of Interest he Atlantic Council claims to be a "preeminent, non partisan institution devoted to promoting transatlantic cooperation and international security".' It is partnered with NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and sponsored financially by some of Wall Street and London's largest, most powerful corporate-financier interests. These include many of the Big Oil interests poised to reap a whirlwind of profits over NATO-backed regime change in Libya: namely, BP, Chevron, Exxon and Shell. They also include defence contractors already enriched by the protracted bloodshed in North Africa, including Raytheon, BAE Systems, SAAB Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics and orthrop Grumman. Additionally, the world's largest banks and equity firms sponsor the Atlantic Council, including Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, The Blackstone Group, Citigroup and Credit Suisse Bank. There is also a tremendous amount of foundation support, each with a nefarious back-story worthy of its own thorough examination, including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation and billionaire bankster George Soros's Open Society Institute. But perhaps most alarming is the Council's sponsorship by a large representation from "reputable" news and media agencies, including Thomson Reuters, Newsdesk Media, Bloomberg (which includes Businessweek) and Google. Such an elaborate, full-spectrum conflict of interest should be alarming to even the most adamant supporters of the current NATO operation in Libya. We see all of the mechanics necessary to generate the justification for regime change through media, public and political channels, the military- might to carry out the war, and the corporate-financier organisations to fully manipulate and exploit the freshly installed regime, all integrated into a single organisation. Without a doubt, the Atlantic Council has pledged unwavering support for the NATO operation, with the post "Well Done, ATO!" perhaps the most obvious indication that not only is the Council amidst an immense conflict of interest but it is committing a full range of improprieties stemming from it.’ Before moving on, it is important to understand just how illegitimate ATO is by examining the Atlantic Council partnered with it, and how the Council is tying together corporate-financier interests and NATO's military power to sell, execute and profit from regime change in Libya. As pointed out by Color Revolutions and Geopolitics in its article "The Devil Writes a Handbook: ‘The Responsibility to Protect’, the humanitarian aspects of the Libyan operation were merely a marketing ploy for yet another poisoned agenda stemming from Wall Street and London's financial institutions. by Tony Cartalucci © 6 September 20II From the blogsite: http://tinyurl.com/3twlices NEXUS ° II Email: cartalucci@gmail.com OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com