Libya
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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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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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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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The Anti-Empire Report 2 May 2011 By William Blum: Everything you wanted to know about 'humanitarian intervention'
If you went into surgery to correct a knee problem and the surgeon mistakenly amputated your entire leg, what would you think if someone then remarked to you how nice it was that “you actually no longer have a knee problem, thank God.” … The people of Iraq no longer have a Saddam problem. Continue reading
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Libyan Scenario For Syria: Towards A US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention” directed against Syria? By Rick Rozoff
His order targeted among others Syrian President Bashar Assad’s brother Mahir and cousin Atif Najib and also included – in an indication that broader objectives are also being pursued however tenuous, even farfetched, the link – the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with the presidential demarche contending: “Despite the Government of Iran’s public rhetoric claiming… Continue reading
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Media Lens: If At First You Don’t Succeed – Four Decades Of US-UK Attempts To Topple Gaddafi
Behind a wall of silence, the US and UK have been conducting over the last four decades a massive, largely secret war against Libya – often using Chad, the country lying on its southern border, as its base. The current attacks on Col. Gadafi’s troops and attempts to assassinate the Libyan leader with the US… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 1-2 May 2011: NATO Bombers butcher Gadaffi relatives
2 May 2011 — williambowles.info 2 May 2011 SCF: The Agony of Libya: What can be done (II) SCF: Libya Faces Attacks Against Civilian Infrastructures and Tough Information Warfare Mathaba News: Join The Fact Finding Mission in Libya Mathaba News: US Intervention in Syria Stop NATO News: May 1, 2011 1 May 2011 Global Researcg:… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 1 May 2011: ‘Humanitarian’ war escalating
1 May 2011 — williambowles.info 1 May 2011 Greenleft: Libya: ‘Humanitarian’ war escalating The Independent: Nato action ‘in line’ with policy, says Cameron williambowles.info: Nil Nikandrov – US and NATO in Libya: International banditry turned into legitimate strategy BBC: Nato strike ‘kills Gaddafi’s son’ Dandelion Salad: Obama Doctrine Allows for Regime Change by Assassination by… Continue reading
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Nil Nikandrov – US and NATO in Libya: International banditry turned into legitimate strategy
As of today, Libyan security service seems successful at keeping M. Gadhafi safe amidst the West’s air raids. Targeting him, NATO drones dropped ‘point strikes’ which left schools, hospitals, and shopping malls in ruins, but Libya’s defiant leader remained unharmed. The Libyan security service also manages to shield Gadhafi from the death squads sent by… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 27-30 April 2011
30 April 2011 — williambowles.info 30 April 2011 Stop Nato: Updates on Libyan war and Syria: April 30 BBC: Gaddafi talks offer is dismissed Dissident Voice: Three Question Quiz For Leftist Liberals Regarding (1) Oil Profits; (2) Libyan Rebels; (3) Sex, Romance, Maturity, and Integrity Global Research: Map of Libya Oil Exports Consortium News: Trying… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 25-26 April 2011
26 April 2011 — williambowles.info 26 April 2011 Dissident Voice: Capitalism and Class Struggle RT: Gaddafi awarded “anti-NATO resistance fighter” title by Ukrainian party Consortium News: NATO Pushes ‘Regime Change’ in Libya Mathaba: Detained Bahraini Medics: Brutal Crackdown against Pro-democracy Movement Mathaba: No sign Gaddafi bombed Tripoli – NATO wages war on false claims Mathaba:… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 April 2011
21 April 2011 20:38 — williambowles.info 21 April 2011 Mathaba News: The War in Libya: Race, “Humanitarianism,” and the Media Finally, an in-depth analysis of the racist source of the “Libyan uprising”… bear in mind too that these fake Twitter accounts, with commercially produced avatars, are part of a new software for the purpose. Twitter… Continue reading
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