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NAT&Source ALLIANCE NEWS BLOG AS = Well Done, NATO! E August 24, 2011 The daily news of the world’ powerful alliance. About Contact Archive Follow on Twitter: @NATOSou ‘Tam an enormous fan of NAT use it virtually every day, bec} — a wide variety of view ase of factual ieowistge, and touch with the world of NATO, Admiral Jim Stavridis, SACEU |From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atl t: NATO will soon suspend Operation Unified yon 1 [Protector over Libya. Nigh on ten years after 9/11 and after a gruelling decade of controversy jand division the Alliance can finally chalk up an unequivocal success. The new regime in oe «gs [Tripoli simply would not have succeeded in toppling Gaddafi without NATO’s support and I fo National Composition of NA ne wish to congratulate the Secretary-General, the North Atlantic Council and Admiral Questions but no answers fq Stavridis, the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and his team for their leadership. This is t Day 5 of NATO’s Political Inj ELATED CONT. ENT AS se About Contact Archive This screenshot dated 24 August 20II shows the Atlantic Council’s very premature victory congratulations extended to NATO, even as operations in Tripoli began to peter out and the full extent of the attempted psychological operation was made public (see http://tinyurl.com/3uj3xy5). Endnotes 1. http://www.acus.org/about 2. http://www.acus.org/natosource/well-done-nato 3. http://tinyurl.com/3uj3xy5 4. http://tinyurl.com/3rwg2xr 5. http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/global-con 6. http://tinyurl.com/6klbbk8 7. http://tinyurl.com/3dzc2or 8. http://tinyurl.com/302v9cq 9. http://tinyurl.com/3cq9c58 10. p://tinyurl.com/4eyghu2 11. p://tinyurl.com/3t5ohch 12. p://tinyurl.com/446x5yn 13. p://tinyurl.com/3nbto3m 14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa- 1395575 | 15. p://tinyurl.com/4y5rprp 16. p://tinyurl.com/3b3h9]j 17. p://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm 18. p://tinyurl.com/3g3jwv5 19. p://tinyurl.com/6yv93mk establish the primacy of "international law" over that of the nation-state.” Clearly, by "international law", Brookings means the dictates proposed by think-tanks like itself or the Atlantic Council, rubber-stamped by the United Nations and pursued by an alliance driven by Wall Street and London interests. To portray a bid for global empire as a progressive humanitarian mission to alleviate unrest that they themselves created over the course of decades is indeed a "global con". 00 About the Author: Tony Cartalucci is a geopolitical researcher and writer based in Bangkok, Thailand. He runs an independent alternative news blog, Land Destroyer Report, which covers global geopolitics and world events from a Southeast Asian perspective. He promotes self-sufficiency and political and financial independence as the keys to true freedom. To read more of his postings, visit http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com and http://land destroyer.wordpress.com. 14 * NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 20I1 www.nexusmagazine.com