Libya
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Libya Newslinks 8-9 September 2011
9 September 2011 — williambowles.info 9 September 2011 Gadaffi loyalists fire on rebels at Bani Walid Morning Star Today at 16:42 Libyan supporters of Muammar Gadaffi unleashed barrages of Grad rockets on Nato-backed forces massing outside the towns of Bani Walid, Sirte and Teassain today. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 546: US/NATO OCCUPATION OF LIBYA & TRIBUTES TO SAMIR AMIN
9 September 2011 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. Letters & Opinions, 7. Cartoons Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 9, 2011
9 September 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: NATO-Led Forces On Killing Spree Against Migrants, Immigrants Canadian Forces Ready For Extended Libyan Mission: Military Chief Why A U.S. War With China May Be Inevitable Japan, U.S. Advance Layered Interceptor Missile System Military Committee Chief: NATO Needs To Reinforce Separatists In Kosovo U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 10,… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 7-8 September 2011
8 September 2011 — williambowles.info 8 September 2011 Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg William Bowles.info Today at 10:30 Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 8, 2011
Stop NATO U.S. Marines Black Sea Force To Be Replicated In Africa South Sudan: Next NATO Intervention? Provincial Government: NATO Forces Guilty Of Deadly Pakistani Raids NATO Chief In Czech Republic To Discuss Global Transformation Million Dead, $1.8 Trillion Spent On Decade-Long U.S. ‘War On Terror’ Continue reading
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Video: The Shape of Things to Come in Libya: Interview with Michael Parenti By Sean Thomas
Michael Parenti: Expect the same thing as you saw happened in Yugoslavia and in Eastern Europe. There will be a massive privatization taking place. The public economy that the Gaddafi government had built over 40 years, which included public subsidies for housing, for education, for healthcare — all those things will be privatized. Continue reading
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BP Profit From Torture By Craig Murray
7 September 2011 — Craig Murray These are the ‘democrats’?! Just when you thought that nothing could be more sickening than the revelation that the mad Mahdi Blair was godfather to the baptism of Murdoch’s daughter in the River Jordan… Kudos to the Daily Mail for outing BP’s Mark Allen as the MI6 man who… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6-7 September 2011
7 September 2011 — williambowles.info 7 September 2011Lauren Ploch, “Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa” MRZine.org Today at 08:17 As envisioned by the Department of Defense (DOD), AFRICOM aims to promote U.S. strategic objectives and protect U.S. interests in the region by working with African states and… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 7, 2011
7 September 2011 — Stop NATO Indian Link To NATO ABM System Targets China, Pakistan, Iran, Russia Afghanistan: 1,645 Dead, 13,609 Wounded In America’s Longest War Afghan War: Czech Defense Minister Inspects New Special Forces Base Dutch Defense Minister: New Afghan Mission ‘Primarily Military’ U.S. Carrier Strike Group Visits Malaysia Africa Partnership Station: U.S. Guided… Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 2
On August 23 and 24, the media once again abandoned all pretence of objectivity in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Tripoli, as they had in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Kabul and Baghdad. This, again, was a moment of national triumph, of vindication – the famed concern with ‘balance’ was brushed aside as mean-spirited, even nasty (the… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6 September 2011
6 September 2011 — williambowles.info THE ROVING EYE: Libya: The real war starts now: Asia Times Online Today at NoonAs the Libyan Transitional National Council already behaves like a lame duck and as the militias will simply not vanish, it’s not hard to picture Libya as a new Lebanon, with regions carved up between numerous… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5 September 2011: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War
5 September 2011 — williambowles.info Libya: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Yesterday at 23:01 Some more updates in spite of the news censorship and communications black out by NATO on Libya Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 1 September 2011: Libya and the world we live in by William Blum
The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”. Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 1
Naturally it is the role of the enlightened West to steer Libya towards democracy. Editors working for the media conglomerate at the heart of the phone hacking police/political corruption scandal – a major attack on democracy and civil rights – presumably perceived no irony in their preaching of ‘democracy, and legal freedoms’. Words that should… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 30, 2011
30 August 2011 — Stop NATO NTC: NATO Ensured Victory, Must Stay In Libya Obama Doctrine: U.S. Libyan War Tactics Model For Syria, Others Under Fire From Atlanticist Forces, German Foreign Minister Endorses NATO Bombing Report: Algeria Closes 1,000-Kilometer Stretch Of Border With Libya Beginning Of New War: NATO Complicit In Attacks On Pakistani Posts… Continue reading
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MSM’s Keep Relentlessly Pounding on Gaddafi’s Libya
NATO’s conquest of Libya has taught me the enormous strength of those who control the main stream media. Once you have established a certain ‘paradigm’ or perspective on a particular situation, it is easy to let people stick to that by fueling them with exactly those kinds of words that will prolong the existence of… Continue reading
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The British left spreads misinformation about Libya By Cailean Bochanan
NATO doesn’t look for love letters since the fact that they are psychopaths is fairly well known. The Milne article is addressing a readership which is only too aware of NATO criminal tendencies. But NATO would be delighted that the opposition had concede two fundamental pillars of its propaganda on Libya. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO News: August 29, 2011
29 August 2011 — Stop NATO Chicago: Conference Plans Mass Demonstrations Against NATO, G8 Summits Meeting With Top Commander: NATO Trains Iraqi Navy NATO Attack On Syria To Result In Quagmire: Iranian Foreign Minister Washington Post: ‘Syrians Demand’ NATO Intervention Canadian Military: Boost U.S.-Led Surveillance Against Russia, China Welcome To Colonialism 2.0 U.S.-Based NATO Command… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 28 August 2011
28 August 2011 — williambowles.info Libya’s interim government strengthens grip, says Khamis Qaddafi may be dead Christian Science Monitor The military spokesman for Libya’s interim government said a son of Muammar Qaddafi may have been killed trying to flee Tripoli as the new Libya’s forces extend their grip over the country. By Kristen Chick, Correspondent… Continue reading
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Video: 25 Aug 2011: Indy Journalist Franklin Lamb Shot; Others Shot at and Threatened by CNN
NATO has provided direct armed cover to these armed gangs, who have no political project, no dream for Libya and are filled with hatred. All they want is to destroy this beautiful city, especially the tribes, the families and the neighborhoods, that are well known for supporting the Leader of this country. Continue reading
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