humanitarian intervention
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Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK
We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things that way. Continue reading
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The Empire’s “Left Intellectuals” Call for Regime Change. The Role of “Progressives” and the Antiwar Movement By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
What is the position of the West’s “Progressives” with regard to regime change in Venezuela? Continue reading
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Media Lens: Massacres That Matter – Part 2 – The Media Response On Egypt, Libya And Syria By David Edwards
Corporate media coverage of atrocities in Egypt, Libya and Syria has closely matched US-UK government interpretations and priorities. While the US government has refused to describe what was very obviously a military coup in Egypt on July 3 as a coup, many media have also tended to shy away from the term, referring instead to… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Massacres That Matter – ‘Responsibility To Protect’ In Egypt, Libya And Syria – Part 1 By David Edwards
The ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P), formulated at the 2005 UN World Summit, is based on the idea that state sovereignty is not a right but a responsibility. Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has… Continue reading
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London: Media and War Conference with John Pilger on Saturday 17 November 2012
14 November 2012 John Pilger, Peter Oborne (Daily Telegraph), Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ General Secretary), and Seumas Milne (The Guardian) are among the many keynote speakers at the important conference this Saturday: Media and War – Challenging the Consensus. Topics include: Serving the military or the public? Media coverage of the war on terror The media and the anti-war movement: how do we Continue reading
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“Rebels” are power-hungry terrorists, say Libyan refugees — RT
Civilian casualties have raised serious misgivings about NATO intervention in Libya, even among supporters of the ongoing aerial campaign. And while the international community is taking sides in the conflict, it is the Libyan people who suffer most. Continue reading
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William Hague: Following in Churchill’s footsteps By William Bowles
Now let me get this straight: In order to save civilian lives (the infamous ‘Right to Protect’), the Empire, through its Rottweiller NATO, not only deindustrializes Libya but it also causes a mass exodus of refugees hundreds of whom drowned and many thousands more were left stranded, attacked and abused. Continue reading
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Empire Games – but who writes the rules? By William Bowles
The Western left’s abdication, nay abandonment of principles that go to the heart of the socialist liberation project has been long in the making, centuries even and made all the more obvious by the left’s take on events in Libya and now Syria. Critiques of the ‘humanitarian, socialist interventionists’ came thick and thin but for… Continue reading
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Video: Imperial Takeover: Libya is Now a Humanitarian Disaster
“The sad fact, however, is that it is the Libyans themselves, who have been insulted, terrorized, lynched, and murdered as a result of the press reports that hyper-sensationalized this base ignorance. Who will be held accountable for the lives lost in the bloodletting frenzy unleashed as a result of these lies? Continue reading
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NATO: A Feast of Blood By Cynthia McKinney
‘It is transparently clear now that NATO has exceeded its mandate, lied about its intentions, is guilty of extra-judicial killings–all in the name of ‘humanitarian intervention.’ If the humanitarian ruse is allowed against Libya, why not…anywhere? ‘People around the world need us to stand up and speak out for ourselves and them because Iran and… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 2 May 2011 By William Blum: Everything you wanted to know about 'humanitarian intervention'
If you went into surgery to correct a knee problem and the surgeon mistakenly amputated your entire leg, what would you think if someone then remarked to you how nice it was that “you actually no longer have a knee problem, thank God.” … The people of Iraq no longer have a Saddam problem. Continue reading
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Ivory Coast and Bretton Woods: Soros’s spectre
Few around the world watching the drama unfolding in Ivory Coast rout for the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, who to his credit held reasonably fair elections last year, but then promptly ignored the results, suddenly claiming that those who voted for his rival Alassane Ouattara were not really citizens of Ivory Coast at all. With… Continue reading
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Four must read articles on Libya
Four excellent articles on the Imperial ramp-up to war on Libya Continue reading
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Libya and the Return of Humanitarian Imperialism By Jean Bricmont
The whole gang is back: The parties of the European Left (grouping the ‘moderate’ European communist parties), the ‘Green’ José Bové, now allied with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who has never seen a US-NATO war he didn’t like, various Trotkyist groups and of course Bernard-Henry Lévy and Bernard Kouchner, all calling for some sort of ‘humanitarian intervention’… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 