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NATO airstrikes kill 19 civilians in Tripoli – Libyan TV
NATO airstrikes on Libyan capital, Tripoli, killed at least 19 civilians over the past 24 hours, the Libyan state television reported. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: May 24, 2011
24 May 2011 — Stop NATO “Thought It Was Day Of Judgment”: Heaviest NATO Bombing Of Tripoli Yet 67-Day Air War: Over 8,000 NATO Air Missions, Over 3,000 Combat Flights Attack Helicopter Deployment Brings NATO Closer To Libyan Ground War Washington To Host Libyan Rebel Office U.S. Drone Attacks In Pakistan: 32 Strikes, At Least… Continue reading
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“Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt” – Samir Amin
Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt. The (Gaddafi) bloc in power and the forces fighting against it have no analogues in Tunisia or Egypt. Gaddafi has never been anything but a clown whose vacuous thought is reflected in the famous ‘Green Book.’ Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 24 May 2011: France, NATO to deploy helicopters in Libya
24 May 2011 — williambowles.info NATO Says Blast Kills 4 Service Members in Afghanistan Fox News In a separate incident, NATO says four of its service members have been killed by an explosion in eastern Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan – NATO says four of its service members have been killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan.… Continue reading
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Commentary: Libya overshadowed by “Kosovo model” By Wu Liming
In the 21st century, some Western countries take ‘neo-interventionism’ as their standard practice and even try to apply the so-called ‘Kosovo model’ elsewhere in the world. This should ring an alarm bell to the international community. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war 20 May 2011: Libya: Under Western Military, Media Siege
20 May 2011 Stop NATO Russia Condemns NATO Strikes, Urges Peacekeeping Force In Libya NATO Warplanes Attack Libyan Ships In Three Ports NATO Bombs Eight Libyan Naval Vessels Libya: Under Western Military, Media Siege NATO Targets Libyan Telecommunications: $1.2 Billion In Damages Continue reading
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The Middle East Revolution: The Empire Strikes Back: Libya Attacked by the US and NATO By Asad Ismi
The Western attack on Libya is motivated mainly by the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions taking those countries out of Washington’s control. This created the need for a military base from which to contain those revolutions, which Libya is perfect for, since it borders both of these countries. Continue reading
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Was Trying to Torpedo the Dollar By Mike Whitney
Whoever wants to nail IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has really pulled out all the stops. Their agents have been rummaging through diaries, hotel registries, phone records, yearbooks, yada, yada, yada. The UK Telegraph even paid a visit to a high-priced DC knocking shop to get a little dirt from Madame Botox; whatever it takes to… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 17-18 May 2011: WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil
18 May 2011 — williambowles.info 18 May 2011 Mathaba: WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil Socialist Worker: Left to die in the Mediterranean Mathaba: Imperialist bombardment, assault on Libya continues Mathaba: Mass media begin to stop the great lie about Libya and Gaddafi Mathaba: The real reasons for NATO’s attacks… Continue reading
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An Empire of Terror – Selected Articles
17 May, 2011 — Global Research The “International Criminal Court”: Prosecuting Gaddafi With Questionable Evidence While Ignoring NATO-Israeli Atrocities – by Andy Dilks – 2011-05-17 Continue reading
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The truth about ‘civilized transitions’ By William Bowles
This is what it comes down to: A TV ‘news’ presenter reveals in all its starkness, how the Empire corrupts totally. Here we have an apparently intelligent and educated person dismissing the leader of a country as if he’s just another expendable piece of the Empire’s junk. ‘Yeah, why you don’t just get rid of… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 12-13 May 2011
13 May 2011 — williambowles.info 13 May 2011 Stop Nato: Radio Interview: NATO’s Attack On Africa Dissident Voice: Freezing Bank Accounts and Free Speech in the USA RT: There will be a “new Libya” – Russian FM Mathaba: Independent Libya News Blogger Silenced: Will Now Publish Via Mathaba BBC: HMS Liverpool comes under attack SCF:… Continue reading
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Humanitarian Neo-colonialism: Framing Libya and Reframing War By F. William Engdahl
The world has accepted it without realizing the implications if the war against Gaddafi’s Libya is allowed to succeed in forced regime change. At issue is not whether or not Gaddafi is good or evil. At issue is the very concept of the civilized law of nations and of just or unjust wars. Continue reading
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Libya Fact Sheet By Ron Ridenour
What the US-NATO-EU hopes to achieve is to eliminate the half-reliable partner Gaddafi and replace him with a neo-liberal oriented government that will do their bidding: sign on AFRICOM, kick China out, reverse the government central bank to a BIS private enterprise, continue using dollars of course, and have the lackey leaders join in their… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Fallujah, Iraq 2004 – Misrata, Libya 2011
Our point – an obvious one, we would hope – is not at all to suggest that we support Gaddafi’s tyranny or his atrocities. Our point is that, time and again, our ostensibly independent mass media fall into line when the state declares war. When the official enemy attacks civilians our media howl with righteous… Continue reading
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Killing Gaddafi’s Grandbabies By Glen Ford
When the U.S. and Europeans needed a way to get on the ‘right’ side of the Arab Awakening – and thereby crush it – they chose to re-demonize Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi as the evil from which the Euro-Americans would rescue North Africa. ‘Gaddafi was perfect, having long existed in cartoon form for western consumption.’ Continue reading
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Libya: Some ruminations on current events By William Bowles
I know I keep hammering on about this but it still hasn’t sunk in with those who profess to be on the left, bemused, or perhaps it’s bewitched, as they are by the concept of ‘humanitarian intervention’. 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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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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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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