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Dmitri Sedov – In and Around Libya
The sliding of the civil war in Libya into a new phase tilted considerably the balance of forces in the country. Some of Gadhafi’s supporters continue to mount stiff resistance in Bani Walid, Siret, and Sabha and at least so far manage to keep attackers out of the strongholds. A few days ago they even… Continue reading
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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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Britain: The Health and Social Care Bill and the Negation of Democracy By Colin Leys
In voting, in the British House of Commons, for the third reading of Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill last week MPs voted to replace the National Health Service (NHS) as a public service with a system of competing businesses – foundation trusts, social enterprises and for-profit corporations. Continue reading
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What Lies Ahead for Libya By Prof. Johan Galtung
According to NATO, the final chapter of Gaddafi’s Libya is being written now. The scenario is very similar to the final chapter for Yugoslavia -Milosevic- for Afghanistan -Mullah Omar- Iraq -Saddam Hussein- and for the ‘War on Terror’ -bin Laden: eliminate The Bad Guy. In the future chapters of this neo-crusade, orthodox Christians will also… Continue reading
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Outcome of the Visit to Syria by a Mission of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) By Alexander Lukashevich
The Mission included staff from several UN institutions and humanitarian agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IOM, etc.). The Syrian authorities provided the Mission unimpeded access to all objects of interest. The UN officials traveled to a number of populated areas, visited schools and hospitals, and had substantive conversations with governmental entities, local authorities and population. 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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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: ‘Before NATO intrusion, Libya was African Switzerland’ — RT
NATO’s presence in Libya little resembles a humanitarian mission with houses, hospitals and schools being hit. But Libya prospered prior to NATO’s intrusion, Yvonne Di Vito, an activist from Libyanfriends.com told RT. Continue reading
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Video: ‘Before NATO intrusion, Libya was African Switzerland’ — RT
NATO’s presence in Libya little resembles a humanitarian mission with houses, hospitals and schools being hit. But Libya prospered prior to NATO’s intrusion, Yvonne Di Vito, an activist from Libyanfriends.com told RT. Continue reading
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Libya: Campaigners warn ‘hallmarks of a new Afghanistan are all there’ By Louise Nousratpour
Left campaigners in Britain demanded a halt to all British and Nato involvement in Libya today, warning that their intervention had all the hallmarks of the West’s disastrous invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading
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‘Libya rebels to divide in victory vacuum’ — RT
Libyan rebels are united by hatred towards the current leader. Once Colonel Gaddafi is out of the game, they will turn on each other and NATO, predicts Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Continue reading
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'Libya rebels to divide in victory vacuum' — RT
Libyan rebels are united by hatred towards the current leader. Once Colonel Gaddafi is out of the game, they will turn on each other and NATO, predicts Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of London-based pan-Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Continue reading
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Crude Western interests in Libya — RT
The fight is not over in Tripoli, but the carve-up of Libya’s vast oil riches – the biggest in Africa – is already beginning and no doubt the process will not come cheaply for the Libyan people. Continue reading
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Crude Western interests in Libya — RT
The fight is not over in Tripoli, but the carve-up of Libya’s vast oil riches – the biggest in Africa – is already beginning and no doubt the process will not come cheaply for the Libyan people. Continue reading
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What Should the Verizon Strikers Do? By Dave Stratman
Billionaire Warren Buffett said, “There is a class war in this country, and my class is winning.” These 45,000 Verizon employees, members of the CWA and IBEW, are on the front lines of the class war. They are fighting for us all. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 15-16 August 2011
16 August 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: US and Brazil Vie for Power in Peru Huffington Post That, at least, is the unmistakable impression that one is left with by reading US cables recently disclosed by whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks, and it’s a topic about which I have written widely in recent months. Yet, with President Hugo Continue reading
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Libya — Lather, Rinse, Repeat — Syria: Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn By Maximilian C. Forte
One detects a strong tendency among liberal imperialists and assorted self-designated “progressives” to think of their actions and thoughts as being above history, as if residing in some altostratus of unimpeachable rectitude. If they pretend to act and think as if they were gods, it is not an historical accident. At the end of their… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 