Africa
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Libya: If democracy is the keyword used to justify the destruction of human lives and property, then God help us all!
The question now remains: does a post-Gaddafi Libya hope to become a land of milk and honey? Believe me, that would be a very tall order because actually, whether you like Gaddafi or not, Libya, by all appreciable standards, had the highest standard of living in Africa, under Gaddafi. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 14-15 September 2011
15 September 2011 — williambowles.info 15 September 2011 NATO’s client regime in Libya confronts divisions as military offensives stall World Socialist Web Site Today at 14:07 The fragility of the new regime in Tripoli was underscored by its announcement yesterday that it would remain in Benghazi until after the seizure of the remaining pro-Gaddafi strongholds. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter September 14, 2011: Col Gaddafi 'in Libya and readying forces'
14 September 2011 — Information Clearing House Israel is Paying For War On Gaza By Gideon Levy During Hanukkah 2008, Israel attacked Gaza in Operation Cast Lead. Now it is eating the bitter fruit of that operation, which was the turning point in the attitude of the world and the region toward Israel and its Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 15, 2011
15 September 2011 — Stop NATO Canada To Extend Libya War Mission To End Of Year NATO Moving Missile Shield Into Black Sea, Asiatic Turkey Boeing To Double Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Interceptor Missile Production U.S., NATO Allies Ready To Test MEADS Interceptor System AFRICOM Commander Wants ‘More Special Operation Forces Now’ Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 14, 2011
14 September 2011 — Stop NATO Africa’s Shame: NATO-Serving Uncle Toms Canadian Firms, NATO Allies Reap Fruit Of Libyan Bombardment South Africa To Host African Union Meeting On Libya U.S. Envoy Not Pleased With Brazil, India, South Africa On UNSC U.S. Missiles, Hundreds More Troops Slated For Romania Poland: U.S. Air Force In Exercise As Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 13 September 2011
13 September 2011 — williambowles.info Key figures in post-Gaddafi Libya BBC News Col Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for 42 years, and allowed no opposition to his rule. After the collapse of his regime, several organisations and individuals have come to the fore, jockeying for position to fill the power vacuum. … http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14896059 Continue reading
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Libya, the Lie By Murray Dobbin
When the U.S. invaded Iraq riding a pack of lies and monstrous manipulation, the entire U.S. elite, including major news services, academics, and politicians from both ‘sides’ of the spectrum, lined up to cheerlead and off they went to war. It was one of the most shameful chapters in the long history of shameful acts… Continue reading
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Video: Mahdi Nazemroaya on yet another "TNC" — this time in Algeria By Dennis South
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya who recently returned from Libya where he witnessed the NATO and rebel atrocities, talks about the dangers to Algeria of yet another so-called Transitional National Council being imported by the globalist elites. Mathaba reader Dennis South offers additional informed comment. Continue reading
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Video: Mahdi Nazemroaya on yet another “TNC” — this time in Algeria By Dennis South
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya who recently returned from Libya where he witnessed the NATO and rebel atrocities, talks about the dangers to Algeria of yet another so-called Transitional National Council being imported by the globalist elites. Mathaba reader Dennis South offers additional informed comment. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 13, 2011
13 September 2011 — Stop NATO Racist Killings In Libyan ‘Regime Change’ Georgia Ready For Full NATO Membership: Speaker Rasmussen: NATO Focuses On Interceptor Missile System, Cyber Warfare, Expeditionary Wars Clinton, Romanian Foreign Minister To Sign Interceptor Missile Agreement France, U.S. Use NATO To Boost European Military Capability Poland: Polish, Canadian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian Troops Train Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 546 12 September 2011: LINKS AND RESOURCES
12 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. Announcements, 2. Zimbabwe update, 3. Women & gender, 4. Human rights, 5. Refugees & forced migration, 6. Social movements, 7. Emerging powers news, 8. Africom Watch, 9. Elections & Continue reading
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Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home—Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing By Valencia Mohammed
In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 11, 2011
11 September 2011 — Stop NATO ALBA Foreign Ministers Condemn NATO’s Aggression Against Libya Libya: NATO’s War On Africa Over 100 German Troops Participated In NATO’s War Against Libya U.S. Says Azerbaijan Loyal NATO Cohort For Past Decade Push For NATO-Compatible European Union Military Headquarters Australian Defense Minister: NATO Troops In Afghanistan Past 2014 9/11 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 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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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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Photo gallery: NATO bombs bring democracy to Europe, Asia and Africa
Pictured are the new millennium’s preeminent representatives of the West’s commitment to democracy, freedom, human rights, transparency and Euro-Atlantic values, brought to power by cluster, thermobaric, bunker buster, “daisy cutter” and graphite bombs and Tomahawk and other cruise, Hellfire and Brimstone missiles. Continue reading
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Video: Exiled Libyan monarchy’s Role in Fomenting Libyan War
The Libyan monarchy of King Idris, which was based in Benghazi, was installed by the United States and Britain in the 1950’s to oversee their economic and military interests in North Africa. Libya in 1952, under the leadership of King Idris, had among the lowest standard of living in the world. The Idris monarchy was… Continue reading
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Video: Exiled Libyan monarchy's Role in Fomenting Libyan War
The Libyan monarchy of King Idris, which was based in Benghazi, was installed by the United States and Britain in the 1950’s to oversee their economic and military interests in North Africa. Libya in 1952, under the leadership of King Idris, had among the lowest standard of living in the world. The Idris monarchy was… Continue reading