The 'Arab Spring' is still alive

Those who claimed that the real ‘end’ of the Arab spring were events like the ‘Islamist’ Mohamed Morsi being elected to the office of the presidency in Egypt, were suddenly quiet when they saw what counter-revolution really looked like in the heaps of corpses inThose who claimed that counter-revolution had triumphed in Syria due to the rise of 'Islamic extremists' among the Syrian rebels could only offer silence or denial when they saw the pictures of the childrenNearly everywhere...

At the UN, a draft resolution sanctioning the murderous TMC was predictably shot down by Russia and China. One suspects that this move saved those countries, such as the US and UK—who at least have to pretend to care about human rights—from the difficulty of having to act against their natural instincts of supporting the TMC.

Though France has condemned the would-be tyrant Khalifa Haftar’s offensive on Tripoli to overthrow the UN-recognised Government of National Accord , the fact that they have beenAgain, one ought not to be swayed by the waves of Islamophobic propaganda on this. The GNA contains forces like the Muslim Brotherhood , and the system it envisions for Libya is one of parliamentary democracy.

France is merely a vanguard of the EU in Libya, where while lip service is paid to the GNA, the reality on the ground is support for Haftar. As is ever the case with Europe, and despite the conjuring of Haftar as a bastion of secularism against ‘Islamism’ , the real problem is the GNA’sthe EU’s colonial plans for migrant detention camps in Libya. Haftar, on the other hand, would have no problem in allowing such camps to stop the inflow of African migrants to Europe.

That might've been one of the motivations but lets not pretend that all these uprisings arised spontaneously to fight 'tyranny' all over the MENA region. More specifically, let's not pretend that these uprising weren't organized and funded by external sources.

That might've been one of the motivations but lets not pretend that all these uprisings arised spontaneously to find 'tyranny' all over the MENA region. More specifically, let's not pretend that these uprising weren't organized and funded by external sources.

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