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On Syria, Democracy, and Imperialism By Prabir Purkayastha
The people want a say in the way their countries are being run and they want it now. The problem is that this allows various forces to play — an initial Libyan democratic upsurge can rapidly transform to an armed rebellion and later to a Western military intervention, ostensibly to protect the civilian population, but… 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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Libya Newslinks 9-10 April 2011
10 April 2011 — creative-i.info 10 April 2011 Greenleft: Springtime for NATO in Libya SCF: Battle erupts for rebel-held Libya town Dandelion Salad: “Collateral Repair” – Turning Despair to Hope by Felicity Arbuthnot Dandelion Salad: Andrew Gavin Marshall: The “Humanitarian Intervention” in Libya BBC: Street battle for key Libyan town 9 April 2011 Global Research:… Continue reading
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Qaddafi Unplugged and Uncensored: Recollections Of My Life – Mu’ummar Qaddafi
In the West, some have called me “mad,” “crazy,” but they know the truth but continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 9-10 April 2011
10 April 2011 — creative-i.info 10 April 2011 Greenleft: Springtime for NATO in Libya SCF: Battle erupts for rebel-held Libya town Dandelion Salad: “Collateral Repair” – Turning Despair to Hope by Felicity Arbuthnot Dandelion Salad: Andrew Gavin Marshall: The “Humanitarian Intervention” in Libya BBC: Street battle for key Libyan town 9 April 2011 Global Research:… Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 6 April, 2011
6 April 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s New Humanitarian Intervention: Words And Pictures Libyan Rebel Commander: Weapons Supplied By “Allied Countries” NATO Shouldn’t Arm Libyan Insurgents: Russian Foreign Minister Deputy Commander: Libyan Rebels Shouldn’t Doubt NATO Support “Historic Time” For AFRICOM: Transferred Libyan War To NATO Africa Union Head Condemns Western Military Intervention In Libya,… 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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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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You didn’t need to be an expert on Libya to know which way the wind was blowing By Max Ajl
This is not a nya-nya-I-was-right-you-were-wrong point. Except in the psychedelic hallucinations of former Arab leftists, now heading stage-right destination Christopher Hitchens-ville, and Juan Cole, who should shut up, this intervention will not embolden Arab revolutionaries. Skip the Arab summer. The people running the show in Brussels, Riyadh, Qatar, and Washington want to usher us in… Continue reading
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Of Principle and Peril By the Editors of MERIP
Given the multiple crises occurring on the planet at any given time, intervention is a political choice rather than a purely moral one. The hortatory sentences that start off, ‘We should,’ ought in all honesty to begin, ‘We can.’ Continue reading
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Independent media newslinks and analysis on Libya 19-20 March 2011
20 March 2011 — creative-i.info 20 March 2011 Protecting Libyan Civilians, Not Others The Hypocrisy of the Libyan Conflict Understating Afghan Civilian Deaths PANA, “Attack on Libya Slights African Diplomatic Option” Libya: White House moves towards war, seeking regime change or partition PANA, “AU Calls for Cessation of Hostilities, Beginning of Reform Process in Libya”… Continue reading
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Independent media newslinks and analysis on Libya 19-20 March 2011
20 March 2011 — creative-i.info 20 March 2011 Protecting Libyan Civilians, Not Others The Hypocrisy of the Libyan Conflict Understating Afghan Civilian Deaths PANA, “Attack on Libya Slights African Diplomatic Option” Libya: White House moves towards war, seeking regime change or partition PANA, “AU Calls for Cessation of Hostilities, Beginning of Reform Process in Libya”… Continue reading
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The Libyan Rebellion: The West’s Cloak over the Gulf By Sukant Chandan
Fidel Castro was right. The West was planning an attack on a sovereign third world nation imminently: Libya. Nothing like a good old war against brown and black people in Libya by the West to remind oneself of what western civilisation is all about. Continue reading
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Challenging the Left on Libya By Michael McGehee
It is upsetting to see so many leftists calling for intervention, or a No-fly Zone in Libya, or romanticizing the rebellion to the point of delusion leaving reality unrecognizable. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 March, 2011: Israel To Sue Bedouin Villagers For Cost Of Demolition
4 March, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Non-violent anti-Wall protests held in four West Bank villages on Friday IMEMC – Saturday March 05, 2011 – 04:22, On Friday afternoon, anti-Wall protests were organized in the villages of Bil’in, Nil’in and an-Nabi Saleh, in the central West Bank, as well as al-Ma’sara… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 March, 2011: Israel To Legalize Settlement Outpost
1 March, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Man Injured by Israeli airstrike in Gaza IMEMC – Tuesday March 01, 2011 – 18:33, A twenty two year old man was injured by an Israeli airstrike in the southern part of Gaza in Khan Younis, in the midst of an Israeli incursion… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 February, 2011: Israeli Settlers Demand Firing Of Bus Driver For Crime Of ‘being Arab’
28 February, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Jerusalem, Nablus roads blocked by Israeli settlers in protest against outpost removal IMEMC – Tuesday March 01, 2011 – 03:35, Hundreds of Israeli settlers blocked the Nablus road in the northern West Bank, and dozens more tried to block a main road in Jerusalem… Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 1 March 2011
1 March 2011 — creative-i.info Could Saudi Arabia Be Next? AOL News With a wave of pro-democracy fervor sweeping the Middle East, could the region’s richest powerhouse, Saudi Arabia, be next to fall? Or perhaps the question should be: Can oil money buy stability? Weeks ago, the answer seemed to be “yes. … www.aolnews.com/2011/03/01/could-saudi-arabia-be-next/ Continue reading
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Imperialists Prepare for Military Intervention in Libya By Yoshie Furuhashi
The preparation for a military intervention in Libya will test the revolutionaries in bordering Egypt and Tunisia. The armed forces of their countries, the backbones of the regimes in power there, will be requested to provide support for any such intervention . . . that is, if they have not already privately pledged their cooperation. Continue reading
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2/28 LIBYA; US Soft War Preps for Military: African & Arab Surrogates Assist
1 March, 2011 — Burbank Digest KHADAFI ON THE OUTS A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Blackagendareport.com/content/khadafi-outs Continue reading
The New Dark Age 