Posted in Africa, USA / North America Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism Author: blackfalcon Published Date: March 14, 2016 Leave a Comment on Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking… The Ecologist Submitted by: blackfalcon