With military and financial support from the United States to the tune of nearly 12 billion dollars, the out-of-control extremist rogue state of Israel is poised to attack the sovereign nation of Iran under the pretext that Iran has the capability—not the possession but the capability—of developing nuclear weapons. The plan proposed by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s unelected tyrannical Zionist leader, is to execute the “Libya Model,” the same maniacal and destructive formula that completely destroyed the infrastructure, assassinated its leader, and killed thousands of people in the onetime sovereign nation of Libya with the help of NATO-backed mercenary forces in 2011.

In the interest of fairness, it’s important to reexamine the Other Libyan Model—the one that freed Libya from a corrupt government and elevated that country out of poverty and made it one of the most prosperous and admired nations on the African continent.

For many Americans over 30, the name Muammar Gaddafi conjures up a short list of demonic labels: dictator; tyrant; lunatic. With the helpful assistance of deep state news outlets, they’ve come to view Colonel Gaddafi as an outrageously corrupt, over-the-top whack-job with an obsession for oversized sunglasses, in dire need of a personal hair and wardrobe stylist.

Out of curiosity, I recently surveyed 12 strangers (cashiers, dog walkers, and restaurant waitstaff), mostly young adults in their late teens and 20s. I asked them one simple question: “Who was Muammar Gaddafi and what do you know about him?” Out of the 12 people, nine had no clue who I was talking about, one was confident that he was one of the 9/11 hijackers, and one (a sports enthusiast) wasn’t “quite sure” but thought Gaddafi had been a second-round draft pick for the LA Lakers.

Dubbed the “Mad Dog of the Middle East” by American President Ronald Reagan for his defiantly anti-Western foreign policies, Muammar Gaddafi, a 28-year-old lieutenant in the Libyan military, amassed a band of revolutionaries and staged a bloodless coup against Libya’s corrupt and highly unpopular King Idres in September 1969.

Despite the ridicule he received from Western countries, Gaddafi had been embraced by South African President Nelson Mandela and many other African leaders for his support for various black liberation movements both within and outside of Africa. Seen as a champion of the people by the overwhelming majority of Libyans, Muammar Gaddafi remained in power for 42 years until the Western-backed overthrow of Libya and his brutal assassination in October 2011 at age 69.

James and JoAnne Moriarty

How and why the once-thriving nation of Libya descended into utter chaos and destruction resulting in the deaths of thousands of Libyans varies depending on who is doing the reporting. One source that seems fairly reputable is the firsthand eyewitness accounts of James and JoAnne Moriarty, two down-home Texas-based oil entrepreneurs.

The Moriartys had developed a proprietary product and technology that rejuvenates oil wells and cleans up pipelines and sludge pits. In the early 2000s, they had a successful business selling their product to BRICS nations. In search of new markets, they decided to stop off in Libya after a business trip to Kuwait. They had been warned about the violence, they had been warned about the corrupt business practices, they had been warned about the harsh and oppressive treatment of women. Yet despite these numerous warnings, the Moriartys decided to risk it all and head to Tripoli in 2007 for a five-day business trip. Theirs had been the first US nongovernment-sponsored corporation to enter Libya. Their experience was earthshattering to say the least. The events that transpired over the next four years set the Moriartys on a harrowing path they could never have anticipated.

In March 2014, the Moriartys met with the inimitable investigative journalist, James Corbett, for a compelling tell-all interview.

And we arrived on January 1, 2007. Our five-day trip was extended at the request of the local governments. And every night we met a different minister from the Libyan government. They were like a sponge soaking up information. They were very interested in our products and our technology. We actually walked out of there 10 days later with a contract to treat 2,500 wells. That was about a billion dollars’ worth of our product because their wells there are monster 1,200-foot-thick production zones.

From 2007 until January 2011, the Moriartys had visited Libya 17 times. Most of their trips lasted two or three months. James Moriarty was eager to convey his experience, his voice filled with the urgency and passion of an archaeologist who had met and connected with a newly discovered civilization in a remote rainforest.

. . . the thing I want you to know that was so atypical of what we knew going in there, I gave Joanne a bushel basket full of head scarves to cover herself up when we were there. Found out we didn't need those at all. It was not a radical country by any stretch of the imagination.

. . . we found the country very, very open. We were allowed to go anyplace we wanted. We were not followed. We were not trailed. We were not beleaguered about anything.

Moriarty’s account of Libya’s standard of living afforded to Libyans under Muammar Gaddafi was startling, something I was unaware of prior to hearing this interview back in 2014.

So, you know, it was really a different, much different country than what we had all heard. Now, the things that are different about Libya that we discovered was first, whenever a new couple got married, the government gave them a gift of $46,000. Their first house cost them 10% of their salary for 20 years, and then it was theirs. All utilities in Libya were paid by the government: that was water, gas, electricity, etc. Their first car cost them half of dealer invoice. Hospitalization was paid, and if they couldn't get the hospitalization they needed in Libya, the government paid for it outside of Libya, plus paid travel expenses for the patient and a family member to travel with them.

Concerns for their well-being and personal safety dissipated shortly after the Moriartys had arrived in Libya. As James recalled:

. . . we saw two or three policemen in all of Tripoli and they were not armed. Very, very peaceful country. We took a security detail in with us, one for each corner when we went anyplace. After two days, I sent him home. We didn't need any security in Libya. We walked the streets freely. And we are eyewitnesses to these things. This isn't something some propagandist told us. We saw these with our own eyes and we're very alert international people.

After the takeover of Libya in 2011, reports quickly surfaced claiming that women helped overthrow Qaddafi by smuggling arms and spying on the government, and that women were on a mission fighting for a greater voice in society. These assertions were in stark contrast to Gaddafi’s high priority to empower women and ensure their respect and equal place in Libyan society. As JoAnne Moriarty explained:

The interesting thing about Libya was it was the most progressive Muslim country in the world. Gaddafi did not even like the headscarves. And he emancipated women in the 1970s. You saw women in government. You saw them as doctors, as teachers, as they were in the military. They did anything they wanted in that country. It was really an open country. And one of the reasons Libya was such a strong internal country, not only because of the tribal system, but because of women. The women, they are very strong. They are allowed to speak their mind. They're allowed to live their lives like they choose to live their lives.

During the NATO war against Libya, the Moriartys worked with a number of women. JoAnne recalled the role of one woman, a top attorney:

. . . she was putting together a file of atrocities that were committed by the mercenaries that were brought in there, the 250,000 mercenaries that were brought in there. And so, we were real impressed with the women in Libya. We thought, I mean, we were surprised because that's not what we'd seen in other countries.

The Consequences of Telling the Truth

In May 2011, the Moriartys were asked and agreed to go into Tripoli to head an NGO (nongovernmental organization) fact-finding commission. They were there for 100 days, and after the first few weeks, they found themselves trapped in the city that had been occupied by NATO-sponsored al Qaeda mercenaries. James’s recollection is nothing short of terrifying:

In the end, we were captured by al Qaeda. We'd been put on their kill list because we had had the audacity to tell the Libyan people that they had the right to determine their own government. We were taken to the al-Qaeda torture center, which was the Mehari Hotel. We were there a long time. In the end, a big fat, tall, bald-headed bearded imam came in, looked down his nose, and told us we would be killed, chopped up and burned, and blamed on Gaddafi.

Joanne and I do not speak in Arabic at all. We did not hear that. We didn't understand what he said. But three miracles extracted us from that kill zone, which was set up two blocks away from the hotel, and then our escape from Tripoli, and then ultimately our escape out of Benghazi.

Two years after the Moriartys returned to the United States they discovered that their troubles weren’t over.

. . . we had been blacklisted and targeted by the US government and soft-killed, and they had successfully destroyed us financially. They had isolated us from all our family and friends, and they had threatened anyone that tried to work with us with audits or worse. So we are absolutely targets of this government because of the atrocities we saw in documented in Libya, and that continues to this day.

Arab League Summit 2008

The Arab League Summit that was held in Damascus on March 29, 2008 was fraught with inter-Arab differences, mainly over the political deadlock in Lebanon, with relations between Syria and the Saudi-Egypt coalition reaching an all-time low. Saudi Arabia and Egypt snubbed the summit by sending low-level representatives. Lebanon's majority government boycotted the summit.

I believe that most pundits would agree that the highlight of the event was the speech given by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi whose admonishment and brutal honesty shocked the league of mostly wealthy, high-profile Arab leaders in attendance.

People here talk about the pre-1967 borders. To tell you the truth, this is astonishing. Whatever happened to the Palestinian cause we had before 1967? Were we lying to ourselves or the world? Thousands of martyrs fell before 1967. For what? How can you say that Palestine was occupied only in 1967, and that Israel must return to the pre-1967 borders? Does Palestine consist of only the West Bank and the Gaza Strip? If so, it means that the Israelis did not occupy it in 1948. They left it to you for twenty years, so why didn’t you establish a Palestinian state?

Colonel Gaddafi’s elucidating summary hit closer to home when he talked about the decimation of Iraq and the complicit posture of Arab nations.

What is the reason for the invasion and destruction of Iraq and for the killing of one million Iraqis? Let our American friends answer this question: Why Iraq? What is the reason? Is Bin Laden an Iraqi? No, he is not.

Were those who attacked New York Iraqi? No, they were not.

Were those who attacked the Pentagon Iraqi? No, they were not.

Were there weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? No, they were not.

Even if Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction, Pakistan and India have nuclear bombs. And so do China, Russia, Britain, France and America. Should all these countries be destroyed? Fine. Let's destroy all the countries that have weapons of mass destruction.

Along comes the foreign power, occupies an Arab country and hangs its president, and we all sit on the sidelines laughing. How can a prisoner of war be hanged? A president of an Arab country and a member of the Arab League no less.

An entire Arab leadership was executed by hanging, yet we sit on the sidelines. And any one of you might be next—yes.

Muammar Gaddafi’s suggestion that any Arab leader and their government might be the next target of western imperialism and suffer the same hang ’em high fate bestowed on Saddam Hussein drew a wave of nervous laughter and mix reactions from the crowd which included Syria’s Bashar al-Assad who knew all too well what Gaddafi was talking about. At that time, Assad had been struggling with pressures from the United States for his unwavering support of the Palestinians who were thought to be terrorist by the US and a threat to Israel and the region. As fate would have it, Mr. Assad and his Syrian government has since been overthrown and his native homeland is currently being obliterated and carved up like a holiday roast by Israel and a mercenary army of US supported head choppers. Fortunately for Mr. Assad, he and his family were granted asylum in Russia and were able to flee the country before falling victim to a televised public execution similar to that of the Iraqi leader in 2006.

Open Mic Night at the United Nations

The turning point for Muammar Gaddafi came some 18 months after his infamous mic drop performance at the 2008 Arab Summit. On September 23, 2009, Colonel Gaddafi stepped up to the podium at the UN wearing his signature cushion-shaped hat and familiar traditional African attire and stunned the 200+ delegates seated in the UN General Assembly.

In a calm contemplative tone, his message was clear, and his penetrating summation was understood by every subordinate leader in the room, none of whom would dare acknowledge or repeat Gaddafi’s words in the presence of the five permanent members of the Security Council, the powerful political and economic nations that ultimately control the direction and decision-making of the UN.

We are 192 nations and countries, and we are like Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park. We just speak, and nobody implements our decisions. We are mere decoration, without any real substance. We are Speakers’ Corner, no more, no less. We just make speeches and then disappear. This is who you are right now.

As I listened to the next segment of Gaddafi’s speech, I could almost envision a wave of nervous delegates checking their Rolex watches and heading for the exits for an impromptu bathroom break.

Holding up a copy of the UN Charter created in 1945, Gaddafi referred to the charter’s preamble.

They created the charter, of which I have a copy. If one reads the charter of the United Nations, one finds that the preamble of the charter differs from its articles.

The preamble says that all nations, small or large, are equal. Are we equal when it comes to the permanent seats? No, we are not equal.

The preamble states in writing that all nations are equal whether they are small or large. Do we have the right of veto? Are we equal?

It says that arm[ed] force shall only be used in the common interest of all nations, but what has happened since then? Sixty-five wars have broken out since the establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council. Sixty-five since their creation, with millions more victims than in the Second World War.

Are those wars and the aggression and force that were used in those sixty-five wars in the common interest of us all? No, they were in the interest of one or three or four countries, but not of all nations. That flagrantly contradicts the charter of the United Nations.

It was hypocrisy that brought about the sixty-five wars since the establishment of the United Nations.

The Beginning of the End

Two years after Muammar Gaddafi’s provocative oration at the UN, the decision to take the Libyan leader out of the loop was unanimous among the permanent members of the Security Council and had garnered support from members of the Arab League.

Leading the charge was Barack Obama, the then US president and the onetime protégée of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, a warm and compassionate humanitarian who in 2008 proclaimed, “Today, it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.”

Mr. Brzezinski’s words were not wasted on the smooth-talking onetime junior senator from Illinois. In a March 11, 2011 nationally televised address, Barack Hussein Obama, the widely popular “yes we can” president, was emphatic about his resolve and stated:

For more than four decades the Libyan people had been ruled by a tyrant, Muammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom. Exploited their wealth. Murdered opponents at home and abroad. And terrorized innocent people around the world, including Americans that were killed by Libyan agents.

Ten days later Obama announced:

Today I authorized the Armed Forces of the United States to begin a limited military action in Libya in support of an international effort to protect Libyan civilians. That action has now begun. In this effort, the United States is acting with a broad coalition that is committed to enforcing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which calls for the protection of the Libyan people. That coalition met in Paris today to send a unified message, and it brings together many of our European and Arab partners.

Muammar Gaddafi’s Final Moments

Muammar Gaddafi was assassinated on October 20, 2011. To say that his termination was horrific would be an understatement. A 2012 article published by the Independent details an account by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that paints a different, more gruesome picture of Gaddafi’s assassination:

The report claims that at least 66 members of Gaddafi's convoy were summarily executed by the militias after their capture—a war crime, one which the Libyan civilian and military authorities have an obligation to investigate. To date they have shown no inclination to do so. And while the Libyan authorities claim that Gaddafi himself was killed in crossfire during the final battle, the evidence amassed by Human Rights Watch (HRW) strongly suggests that he was effectively lynched. The testimony includes an admission by a key militia commander that ‘the situation was a mess ... it was a violent scene ... it was very confusing.’ Cellphone footage obtained by the organization shows that among other injuries he was stabbed in the anus, probably with a bayonet.

The death of Gaddafi and the overthrow of Libya saddened many people, especially the thousands of Libyan refugees who fled the country to escape torture and death as did the Moriartys. For others, Gaddafi’s passing was a well-deserved victory, a triumph that was celebrated by none other than Hillary Clinton, Obama’s warmongering Secretary of State. A prominent champion of freedom and democracy, Hillary was filled with joy after learning that Muammar Gaddafi had been captured by head chopper rebel forces and taken out. "We came, we saw, he died!” she boasted in a CBS video interview.

Fatal Mistakes

Looking back on the events that transpired during the course of Gaddafi’s 42 years in power, most would agree that the outspoken, defiant, and somewhat eccentric leader made three fatal mistakes—colossal no-nos in the eyes of Western powers:

1. He took control and ownership of Libya’s rich mineral and abundant oil resources;

2. he invested heavily in Libya’s agricultural and industrial infrastructure, and proliferated the profits among his people, and;

3. probably more important, he attempted to create an alternative currency, a gold-backed African dinar—a move that was seen as a direct threat to US dominance and the dollar’s long-established position as the world’s reserve currency.

The Consequences of NOT Telling the Truth

The ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has inflamed tensions in the Middle East beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. We are in the hands of lunatics, both in Washington DC and in Tel Aviv. War with the nation state of Iran is looming—a move that would almost certainly create global economic chaos and ignite a world war resulting in the deaths of millions.

Despite President Trump’s calls for ending further development of nuclear weapons, the US Department of Defense (DoD) is calling for a substantial increase in the department’s nuclear weapons programs. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports indicate that if requests made by the DoD are carried out, plans to operate, sustain, and modernize new nuclear forces would cost a total of 946 billion dollars over the 2025–2034 period, or an average of about 95 billion dollars a year.

What is not being told to a mostly misguided, low information, and apathetic American public is that tactical nuclear weapons—paid for by our hard-earned tax dollars—have been conveniently categorized as conventional weapons, sometimes referred to as Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrators (RNEP) or nuclear bunker busters.

To truly understand the consequences of deploying RNEPs, particularly against Iran, a brief video produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists describes the devastating outcomes that would result if they were introduced in the present conflict.

Outside of Yemen's Houthis—formally known as the Ansar Allah (Partisans of God)—the Arab countries in the region appear to show little or no resistance to Israel’s unrestrained aggression. I wonder if the members of the Arab League have forgotten the words of caution spoken by Muammar al-Gaddafi back in 2008 regarding the execution of Saddam Hussein:

An entire Arab leadership was executed by hanging, yet we sit on the sidelines. And any one of you might be next—yes.

The 34th Arab League Summit is schedule to be held in Baghdad on May 17 of this year. I’m not a mind reader, but If I had to guess, I would say that most of the attending delegates—including those complacent members who dismissed the 2008 warnings of Colonel Gaddafi and placed his memory on the backburner—have already figured out that we are on the brink of extinction and that, at present, Iran and neighboring Middle Eastern countries in the region are ground zero for an unimaginable global shitstorm.