March 9, 2011
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9 March 2011 Terrible machine translation but I…
Machine translation but worth reading: The military were the opponents – the tribal elite, mostly from tribes with high status, but there were no supporters. Libyan projects could not unite. New social tools are not there. Continue reading
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Repression, Resistance and the CIA in Libya
Author Hisham Matar says father secretly jailed by Gaddafi in 1990; was part of organization likely supported by CIA Continue reading
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Books: The Return of the Public (space) By Dan Hind
With the destruction of our traditional forms of political expression, we have no collective voice, no public space that we can call our own. Instead, at best we have ‘single issues’ but no sense of the collective. ‘The Return of the Public’ explains how this came to be and offers a way out. Important and… Continue reading
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Reflections of Fidel: NATO’s inevitable war (Part II)
In high-level meetings between Libya and NATO leaders, none of the latter had any problems with Gaddafi. The country was a secure source of high-quality oil, gas and even potassium supplies. The problems which arose between them in the early decades had been overcome. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 March, 2011: Why is Hillary Clinton Not Defending the Rights of Saudi Protesters?
8 March, 2011 — Information Clearing House Top 14 Justifications For An Invasion Of Libya By End Of The American Dream For decades the U.S. has looked upon the suffering of millions of Africans with indifference but now they are trying to convince us that it is a “moral imperative” that we intervene in the Continue reading
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Four must read articles on Libya
Four excellent articles on the Imperial ramp-up to war on Libya Continue reading
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Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For War With Libya By Rick Rozoff
March 7 was a pivotal moment in plans by Western powers to launch military operations against Libya. Continue reading
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Libya and the Return of Humanitarian Imperialism By Jean Bricmont
The whole gang is back: The parties of the European Left (grouping the ‘moderate’ European communist parties), the ‘Green’ José Bové, now allied with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who has never seen a US-NATO war he didn’t like, various Trotkyist groups and of course Bernard-Henry Lévy and Bernard Kouchner, all calling for some sort of ‘humanitarian intervention’… Continue reading
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Another NATO Intervention? Libya: Is This Kosovo All Over Again? By Diana Johnstone
Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance is gearing up for another victorious little ‘humanitarian war’, this time against Libya. The differences are, of course, enormous. But let’s look at some of the disturbing similarities. Continue reading
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Pentagon Propaganda Sways US Opinion of Libya | Global Research TV
War Correspondent Keith Harmon Snow says there is a psychological operation performed by the Pentagon to persuade the American people through propaganda one way or the other. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 