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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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Video: Lizzy Phelan’s site still closed – Voltairenet online-again – More Censorship due to Libyan Situation?
24 August 2011 — Waterput UPDATE August 24, 2011 – 20:16 Libyan Time: Thierry Meyssan’s website is on-line again. Why was the site taken off the air during the release of journalists? Possibly to protect themselves? Lizzie Phelan’s website is still off-line. If anyone can explain, please don’t hesitate to do so. Take a look Continue reading
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Video: Lizzy Phelan's site still closed – Voltairenet online-again – More Censorship due to Libyan Situation?
24 August 2011 — Waterput UPDATE August 24, 2011 – 20:16 Libyan Time: Thierry Meyssan’s website is on-line again. Why was the site taken off the air during the release of journalists? Possibly to protect themselves? Lizzie Phelan’s website is still off-line. If anyone can explain, please don’t hesitate to do so. Take a look Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 24 August 2011
24 August 2011 — williambowles.info Pro-Gadhafi forces try to halt rebels’ momentum CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Libyan rebels weathered resistance from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces in several volatile pockets across Tripoli on Wednesday, and a few dozen journalists kept hostage for days by the strongman’s armed … http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/24/libya.war/ Continue reading
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Tripoli Port Notes By Franklin Lamb
This observer’s tentative appraisal of Tuesdays events along the North Tripoli Port area as of late afternoon 8/23/11 is that the ‘65,000 well trained and well-armed troops’ hyped Sunday by the Gaddafi government don’t in fact exist and that the pockets of government troops here in Tripoli and across Libya that do, will continue to… Continue reading
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NATO’S Planned Bloodbath In Tripoli By Stephen Lendman
NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites. No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed. Continue reading
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Libya: Don’t despair – GET BUSY!
Most of what has been coming through the Total Information Dominance machinery about the situation in Tripoli – and Libya proper – is untrue. The situation there is very bad for the people, that much is true. But not only is the battle not with an indigenous rebellion – it is, rather, with a NATO… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 22 August 2011
22 August 2011 — williambowles.info Libya Revolution Puts Obama Administration on Alert for Pitfalls of Transition Fox News AP People celebrate the capture in Tripoli of Muammar al-Qaddafi’s son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Aug. 22. With another Arab country on the cusp of deposing its leader, Continue reading
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Gunshots during RT live from Tripoli — RT
Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is stationed in a central Tripoli hotel with the international press, says the journalists are being targeted by the rebels and the NATO forces that support them. While he is speaking to RT, shooting can be heard. Continue reading
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Gunshots during RT live from Tripoli — RT
Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is stationed in a central Tripoli hotel with the international press, says the journalists are being targeted by the rebels and the NATO forces that support them. While he is speaking to RT, shooting can be heard. Continue reading
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'Rebels being gathered in Tripoli for a purpose' — RT
Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who is in Tripoli says allowing the rebels inside the capital could well be a strategic move on the part of Libya troops who have corralled the rebels into a single location. Continue reading
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‘Rebels being gathered in Tripoli for a purpose’ — RT
Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who is in Tripoli says allowing the rebels inside the capital could well be a strategic move on the part of Libya troops who have corralled the rebels into a single location. Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Rebels Defeated in Misurata. Reports of Rebel Advances on Tripoli are Unsubstantiated By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The mainstream media is reporting that Tripoli is surrounded. Bernard-Henri Lévy, author and adviser to France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has even declared that the regime in Tripoli has collapsed. This is fiction. Continue reading
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Libyans claim that scores died in NATO raid
Foreign journalists have been taken to see several destroyed buildings in a village near the town of Zlitan which Libyan officials said were hit by NATO airstrikes. They claim at least 85 civilians were killed in the worst non-combatant death toll since NATO began its campaign. Continue reading
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IFJ Condemns NATO Bombing at Libyan Television
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the NATO air strikes against Libyan state television which took place last Saturday in Tripoli, killing three journalists and injured fifteen staff members according to its director of the English service, Khalid Basilia. Continue reading
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Media Lens: A ‘Malign Intellectual Subculture’ – George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens
In a piece that recalled the iconic scene from The Usual Suspects, Monbiot lined up Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, David Peterson, John Pilger, and Media Lens, as political commentators who ‘take the unwarranted step of belittling the acts of genocide committed by opponents of the western powers’. Continue reading
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Libya: NATO Continues to Bomb Civilian Targets
Examples of some recent bombings are the attack on Tripoli International Airport, a component of the Great Man-Made River, and NATO air assistance for an attack on a peaceful unity march in the Western Mountains. These bombings of civilians are readily dismissed by Western journalists at the Swiss Inn Al Nasr (formerly the Rixos Al… Continue reading
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As In Serbia And Elsewhere, U.S. And NATO Target Media In Libya
This is not the first time that NATO and the U.S. have targeted journalists and media outlets. Other incidents included the deliberate targeting of journalists in occupied territories in the Middle East, the NATO bombardment of Radio Television Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade in 1999 and the American army bombing in Kabul and Baghdad of Al… Continue reading
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Murder By Video Game And ‘Bug Splats’: CIA Drone War In Pakistan By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
They call it ‘bug splat’, the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those manning the consoles in Nevada, it signifies ‘suspected militants’ who have just been ‘neutralised’; to those on the ground, in most cases, it represents a family that has been shattered, a home… Continue reading
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