March 2011
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Thelonious Monk ‘Straight No Chaser ‘- Jazz 625
BBC Jazz 625, Monk plays ‘Straight No Chaser’ with Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales and Ben Riley. Continue reading
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A Hundred Years of Rain: Air War Comes Full Circle in Libya By Chris Floyd
Ian Patterson notes that the air war unleashed on Libya by the Western powers last week coincides very neatly with the 100th anniversary of the first military air strike — which was launched by a Western power against … Libya. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 28-29 March 2011
29 March 2011 18:25:47 — creative-i.info 29 March 2011 Morning Star: Peace activists: Let people decide Morning Star: Obama spoils Cameron’s Libya war party Morning Star: Regime forces drive off rebel attack at Sirte Dissident Voice: Libya, Obama, and Empire Dissident Voice: Libya’s Blood for Oil The Independent: Libyan opposition sets out post-Gaddafi vision FAIR: Continue reading
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Reports suggest French intelligence encouraged anti-Gaddafi protests By Alex Lantier
Reports have emerged in European media alleging that efforts by French intelligence to destabilize or topple the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi may have played a role in last month’s protests in Benghazi, which ultimately led to war in Libya. Continue reading
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A CIA commander for the Libyan rebels By Patrick Martin
The Libyan National Council, the Benghazi-based group that speaks for the rebel forces fighting the Gaddafi regime, has appointed a long-time CIA collaborator to head its military operations. The selection of Khalifa Hifter, a former colonel in the Libyan army, was reported by McClatchy Newspapers Thursday and the new military chief was interviewed by a… Continue reading
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Gates and Clinton Hint at Open-Ended War in Libya By Barry Grey
The US and its European allies stepped up their massive bombing campaign on the side of anti-Gaddafi forces over the weekend, further exposing the pretext of a “limited, humanitarian” intervention for the supposed purpose of protecting Libyan civilians. Continue reading
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Andrei Volodin – The Arab Revolutions: a Preliminary Assessment
Politics, as Otto von Bismarck wisely remarked,is the art of the possible, and the West has days rather than weeks or months to put its designs concerning Libya into practice. In contrast to former metropolises — Great Britain and France — which seem oblivious to their past historical failures, the US tends to pursue extremely… Continue reading
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Why Libya? NATO’s War for Oil | Global Research TV
The war of intervention in Libya is yet another American illegal adventure, argues Keith Harmon Snow, an independent war correspondent. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Noble’ War In Libya Part 2
Like a skilled conjuror, the media slips effortlessly, and without explanation, between the obvious need for ‘positive engagement’ and the obvious need to ‘confront tyranny’. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 3 March 2011 by William Blum: Libya and The Holy Triumvirate
Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the European Union and NATO — The Holy Triumvirate — are intervening, bloodily, in a civil war. To overthrow Moammar Gaddafi. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Bageant Moves On By Fred Reed
Joe described himself as a redneck socialist, and he was. He was profoundly concerned with the fate of the people he wrote about, those who worked hard all their lives and ended up with nothing. Funny: I’ve never met a socialist who didn’t care about others, or a capitalist who did. Continue reading
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Open Letter From Russian Doctors In Libya To The President Of The Russian Federation
Bombs and rockets struck residential houses and fell near the hospital. The glass of the Cardiac Center building was broken, and in the building of the maternity ward for pregnant women with heart disease a wall collapsed and part of the roof. This resulted in ten miscarriages whereby babies died, the women are in intensive… Continue reading
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March for the Alternative By Dan Hind
The 26th March demonstration in London was billed by its organizers, the TUC, as a ‘march for the alternative’. The march did, as the unions hoped, ‘give a voice’ to those affected by the cuts and it showed that ‘people reject the argument that there is no alternative’. Perhaps 500,000 people showed that, in time-honoured… Continue reading
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Libya: A sheep in wolf’s clothing? By William Bowles
I think those who have led the left in the post-WWII period are just too damn comfortable, small fish in even smaller ponds who have traded in their revolutionary inheritance for a monopoly on thought. Thus it continually fragments as they seek the ‘true path to enlightenment’, with the competing ‘isms’ endlessly fighting it out… Continue reading
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Syria: Who Backs Bashar? (videos)
Bashar al-Assad, unlike other Arab heads of state, appears to have masses of supporters, who took to the streets on 26 March 2011, as shown in the videos below. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 27-28 March 2011
28 March 2011 — creative-i.info 28 March 2011 BBC: Libya raids hit Gaddafi hometown Greenleft: Libya: West’s bombs no solution Venezuela Analysis: Venezuela Says U.S., Allies Repeating Libya Strategy in Syria Greenleft: Mark Steel: Hypocritical West can’t claim to be Libya’s friend RT: NATO takes command in Libya, approves ‘No-fly plus’ Stop Nato: Updates on Continue reading
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Joe Bageant, 1946-2011
27 March 2011 — Joe Bageant After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died yesterday following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his three children, Timothy, Patrick and Elizabeth, and thousands of friends and admirers. He is also survived by his work and ideas. According to Joe’s Continue reading
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No War on Libya – Communist Corresponding Society
Yet another oil producing nation in the Middle East is today being subjected to imperial aggression. Yet again, the munificent imperial powers have found it in themselves to protect civilians by raining destruction on their country. Yet again we’ll hear the matter-of-fact exculpation of political and military leaders in the imperialist countries for attacks by… Continue reading
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No War on Libya – Communist Corresponding Society
Yet another oil producing nation in the Middle East is today being subjected to imperial aggression. Yet again, the munificent imperial powers have found it in themselves to protect civilians by raining destruction on their country. Yet again we’ll hear the matter-of-fact exculpation of political and military leaders in the imperialist countries for attacks by… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks for 26-27 March 2011
27 March 2011 — creative-i.info Syria activists call for nationwide strike to protest bloody suppression Ha’aretz Anti-Syrian government protesters shout slogans in Damascus, Syria on Friday, March 25, 2011. Photo by: AP The activists also said that 20 protesters have been killed since Friday near the Rahman mosque in Lattkiya. State media reported that snipers Continue reading
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