Perhaps, Gaddafi’s greatest crime, in the eyes of NATO, was his
desire to put the interests of local labour above foreign capital and
his quest for a strong and truly United States of Africa. In fact, in
August 2011, President Obama confiscated $30 billion from Libya’s
Central Bank, which Gaddafi had earmarked for the establishment of the
African IMF and African Central Bank.
In 2011, the West’s objective was clearly not to help the Libyan
people, who already had the highest standard of living in Africa, but to
oust Gaddafi, install a puppet regime, and gain control of Libya’s
natural resources.
For over 40 years, Gaddafi promoted economic democracy and used the
nationalized oil wealth to sustain progressive social welfare programs
for all Libyans. Under Gaddafi’s rule, Libyans enjoyed not only free
health-care and free education, but also free electricity and
interest-free loans. Now thanks to NATO’s intervention the health-care
sector is on the verge of collapse as thousands of Filipino health
workers flee the country, institutions of higher education across the
East of the country are shut down, and black outs are a common
occurrence in once thriving Tripoli.
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