Libya
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US Libya Intervention Is Aggression
Glen Ford: The US intervention does not have humanitarian objectives Continue reading
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Libya : Oil, Banks, the United Nations and America’s Holy Crusade by Felicity Arbuthnot
George W. Bush embarked on the casual snuffing out of uncounted, unique, human lives in majority Muslim populations, chillingly called it a “Crusade.” President Barack Hussein Nobel Obama did not go that far, he left that to the French Minister of the Interior, Claude Gueant who, on 21st March, praised President Nicholas Sarkozy for having:… Continue reading
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I believe I Saw Muammar Gadaffi On My Way To the Colosseum By Gaither Stewart
[berlusconi-otro-escandalo-] Silvio Berlusconi. Until yesterday a loyal pal of Gaddafi’s. Today, one of his executioners. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 2
Using declassified government files, historian Mark Curtis has exposed Britain’s ‘dirty war’ in Yemen in the 1960s, which he describes as one of the ‘least known aspects of recent British history’. The war lasted almost a decade under both Tory and Labour governments, and cost around 200,000 lives. Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 3 April 2011
3 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command Libyan War: U.S. Agrees To NATO Request For More Air Strikes Libya Warns Of Catastrophe If NATO Bombs Great Man-Made River Video And Text: MSNBC’s Longstanding Love Affair With War Over 200 NATO Warplanes Pounding Libya, More To Come Libya:… Continue reading
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Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: 4 April 2011
4 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command Six Warships, 600 Marines: Britain Deploys Task Force To Libya Why NATO Cannot Be Trusted Mounting Alarm Over U.S. Use Of Depleted Uranium Arms In Libya Impact Of Depleted Uranium Ammunition In The War On Libya Today It Is Libya,… Continue reading
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Mounting Evidence Of CIA Ties To Libyan Rebels By Patrick Martin
Despite the repeated claims by Obama administration officials that the rebels are a largely unknown quantity, it is becoming increasingly clear that key military leaders of the anti-Gaddafi campaign are well known to the US government and have longstanding relations with the CIA. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 3-4 April 2011
4 April 2011 18:30:19 — creative-i.info 4 April 2011 Global Research: VIDEO: Balkanize & Conquer: US Goal to Break Up Libya like Yugoslavia Morning Star: Libyan envoy talks peace The Independent: Video: Hague on Libyan rebels Dissident Voice: Lies, Damned Lies, and Libya Dissident Voice: The Empire: A Colossus With Feet of Clay Continue reading
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America’s Libyans By Vijay Prashad
In December 23, 2010, before the Tunisian uprising, Boukhris, Charrani and Mansouri went to Paris to meet with Qaddafi’s old aide-de-camp, Nuri Mesmari, who had defected to the Concorde-Lafayette hotel. Mesmari was singing to the DGSE and Sarkozy about the weaknesses in the Libyan state. His man in Benghazi was Colonel Abdallah Gehani of the… Continue reading
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What Is Behind The Libyan Defections? By Gregory Elich
Much has been made of the defection of several Libyan officials to the West. We are told that the Muammar Qaddafi is losing support even within his inner circle, and the defections underscore the success of the NATO mission. The Libyan government’s days are numbered, it is averred. Continue reading
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The US-Saudi Libya deal By Pepe Escobar
You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and the House of Saud. Continue reading
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US Goal to Break Up Libya like Yugoslavia | Global Research TV
“There are Russian and Ukrainian nurses testifying that hospitals are being bombed and civilians are being hurt,” he told RT. “So this is not a humanitarian effort, it’s a smokescreen. This is a war of aggression against Libya.” Continue reading
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Gaddaffi’s African “Mercenary” Story is a Disinformation Ploy by the CIA By Wayne Madsen
Experts on Africa who have traveled extensively in Libya contend that the stories emanating from the Western media that portray Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, as engaging the services of black mercenaries from Sahara and sub-Sahara Africa is a disinformation ploy by the CIA to stoke racist fervor among Libyans rebelling against Gaddafi. Continue reading
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The Impacts of Depleted Uranium Ammunition in the War on Libya
ICBUW Campaigners from the UK Uranium Weapons Network and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament today expressed their growing alarm at the possibility that highly toxic and radioactive depleted uranium (DU) weapons have been used in Libya. The inhalation of DU particles, spread when the weapons hit their target, is thought to be linked to the… Continue reading
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Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command By Rick Rozoff
Modeled after the calls by the likes of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark during the 1999 war against Yugoslavia, a ground invasion will be presented as a humane remedy for the death and destruction not so much exacerbated as caused by an air campaign. Continue reading
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After Libya, “Syria next piece on geopolitical chessboard” — RT
The Libyan crisis may repeat itself in Syria, believes independent journalist James Corbett, who joined RT to discuss the latest developments in the Middle Eastern country. Continue reading
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Jihan Hafiz On Reporting From Libya
Recently returned from Bengazi, Hafiz reports on rebel fighters, supporters and early stages of the Libyan uprising Continue reading
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D’Escoto: The United Nations Is a Deadly U.S. Weapon
31 March 2011 — Prensa Latina United Nations, Mar. 31 (Prensa Latina) — Former Nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel D’Escoto, now appointed as the representative of Libya to the UN, said Thursday that the United Nations has become a “lethal weapon of the Empire (United States).” “We have to get it back, because if it dies… Continue reading
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Franglo-American Attack on Libya Prepared Months in Advance
Mathaba can reveal that documents on the Command Air Defence And Air Operations (France) website show the attack on Libya reached its final stages of planning in early November 2010, which prompted Gaddafi to send his loyal assistant to Paris under pretence of “defection” to feed misinformation to France Continue reading
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Immanuel Wallerstein: The great Libyan distraction
The entire Libyan conflict of the last month — the civil war in Libya, the US-led military action against Gaddafi — is neither about humanitarian intervention nor about the immediate supply of world oil. It is in fact one big distraction — a deliberate distraction — from the principal political struggle in the Arab world. Continue reading
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