May 3, 2011
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Libya: Some ruminations on current events By William Bowles
I know I keep hammering on about this but it still hasn’t sunk in with those who profess to be on the left, bemused, or perhaps it’s bewitched, as they are by the concept of ‘humanitarian intervention’. Continue reading
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Communiqué by Elias Davidsson on Osama bin Laden’s murder
According to mass media, Osama bin Laden was murdered yesterday, on May 1st, 2011. He was murdered with “other family members”, whose identity is still unknown. The President of the United States of America took credit for this act of murder. Murder is prohibited in every jurisdiction. It is regarded as a criminal act both… Continue reading
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Sky Decision Imminent
Has Murdoch has built his empire in this country in spite of the criminal surveillance of MPs by his journalists, or because of it? Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: May 2, 2011
2 May 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: May 2, 2011 140,000 NATO Troops To Stay In Afghanistan Despite Bin Laden’s Death Azerbaijan: NATO Holds Cyber And National Security Conference Bahrain Builds Gulf Cooperation Council Military Base Against Iran United Arab Emirates Spearheads Gulf Cooperation Council Military Satellite System Parade Of Nations: NATO Continue reading
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Stop Nato: Updates in Libyan war – May 2, 2011: Libya: 4,728 NATO Air Missions, 1,924 Strike Sorties
2 May 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: 4,728 NATO Air Missions, 1,924 Strike Sorties Tunisians Flee As NATO Bombs Libyan Forces Near Border Venezuela Condemns Killing Of Gaddafi Family Members Australian Foreign Minister Defends NATO’s Libyan War After Deadly Strike British Foreign Secretary, Egyptian Field Marshall To Discuss Libya, Syria Continue reading
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Map of Libya Oil Exports
3 May, 2011 — Global Research 1.55 million barrles a day See also, Map of Foreign Oil Concessions Continue reading
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SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention” By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
There is evidence of gross media manipulation and falsification from the outset of the protest movement in southern Syria on March 17th. Continue reading
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Libya: NATO Transitions To Terror Bombing Phase Of War By Rick Rozoff
On the evening of April 30 a Libyan government spokesman announced that an air strike by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had hit a target in Tripoli, killing leader Muammar Gaddafi’s 29-year-old son Saif al-Arab, three of the former’s grandchildren, all under twelve years of age, and several friends and neighbors. The attack followed by… Continue reading
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Osama bin Laden’s Second Death By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the… Continue reading
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M.K. Bhadrakumar (India) – The intriguing death of Osama bin Laden
Think of the irony of it. Osama bin Laden was finally tracked down not in the lawless wilds of Afghanistan but in the teeming Pakistani city of Abbottabad, which is hardly 50 kilometers away as the crow flies from the headquarters of the military establishment in Rawalpindi. Continue reading
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THE INVASION OF LIBYA: Behind the US-NATO Attack are Strategies of Economic Warfare By Manlio Dinucci
What interests are at stake emerged from an article in the Wall Street Journal, the influential business and finance daily newspaper (“For West’s Oil Firms, No Love Lost in Libya”). After the lifting of sanctions in 2003, Western oil companies flocked to Libya with high expectations; they have been disappointed by the results. Continue reading
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Libya Faces Attacks Against Civilian Infrastructures and Tough Information Warfare By Leonid Savin
The present paper grew out of the travel notes I made while traveling across the embattled Libya and watching closely the situation in its western part which stretches from the border with Tunisia to Tripoli. In the process, I attended the “Hands Off Libya!” international conference in Tripoli’s Bab al Bahr Hotel. Continue reading
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Libya: Terrorists Are Us? By Felicity Arbuthnot
The irony of a half African, Nobel Peace Prize winner, initiating bombing in Africa, instead of using his roots to nurture shoots of understanding and co-operation, is a fairly mind stretching irony. But why spoil an unbroken track record and become the only US., President in modern history not to attack a few countries who… Continue reading
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VIDEO: Humanitarian Intervention in Syria and Libya
1 May 2011 — Global Research Continue reading
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The War on Libya – PART II By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The present text examines the events which were conducive to the NATO led war on Libya. Media distortion and misinformation have played a major role in opening the door to war in North Africa. The media has done nothing less than create a justification for war through a series of lies. Continue reading
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Najmuddin A. Shaikh (Pakistan) – The Agony of Libya: What can be done (II)
In Russia Prime Minster Putin was far blunter…Immediately after the passage of the resolution on which Russia had abstained he said that ‘The Security Council resolution is deficient and flawed; it allows everything and is reminiscent of a medieval call for a crusade,’ More recently Putin again spoke on the subject in Copenhagen and after… Continue reading
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Alexander MEZYAEV – Assassinations of Country Leaders and the International Law: Precedent To Be Set in Libya?
The NATO aggression against Libya makes the world re-examine a number of themes from the realm of the international law, especially in the light of the obviously existing plan to kill the country’s defiant leader M. Gadhafi. Gadhafi’s residences are permanently targeted by NATO air raids one of which left his family members – son… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 2-3 May 2011
3 May 2011 — williambowles.info 3 May 2011 Greenleft: Libya: The left should not oppose call for military intervention The Independent: Libyan ambassador leaves Britain SCF: Assassinations of Country Leaders and the International Law: Precedent To Be Set in Libya? MRZine: Juan Ramón Mora, “The Costs of the Libya War” (Cartoon) Stop NATO News: May Continue reading
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Leave Syria to the Syrians By Charles Glass
This is not a good time to be running the Middle East desk at the State Department. If you happen to be him or her, take my advice: Do nothing. Especially in Syria. Let all the think tanks and lobbyists submit their recommendations. Ask the CIA for the usual analysis. Tell the Israelis, which you… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 May, 2011: Israeli Border Policewoman as Stone-Cold Killer
2 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Mashal Meets Egypt’s Security Chief IMEMC – Tuesday May 03, 2011 – 02:32, Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Khaled Mashal, met on Monday with Egypt’s Security Chief, Murad Muwafi, and a number of Egyptian security leaders. Continue reading
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