Libya
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Libya Newslinks 13 July 2011
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Libya campaign duration cannot be predicted, Liam Fox warns Telegraph.co.uk The duration of the Libya campaign cannot be predicted Liam Fox has said, suggesting that military commanders could be preparing for the conflict to last for months. The campaign was originally mandated for 90 days but it is now approaching… Continue reading
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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare By Rick Rozoff
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. Continue reading
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“Gaddafi is a survivor” — RT
NATO is surrendering in Libya. The alliance did not realize that the operation would take so much time and effort, Stephen Brown, contributing editor to FrontPage Magazine, told RT. Continue reading
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“Gaddafi is a survivor” — RT
NATO is surrendering in Libya. The alliance did not realize that the operation would take so much time and effort, Stephen Brown, contributing editor to FrontPage Magazine, told RT. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 July 2011: How The Empire Rationalizes Murder
12 July 2011 — Information Clearing House How The Empire Rationalizes Murder Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war? By Sanjeev Miglani The idea that the United States can arrogate to itself the right of life and death of people around the world can set off a dangerous precedent. Continue Continue reading
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Economic Abyss and Empire Run Amok: Selected Articles
12 July 2011 — Global Research The Global Economic Abyss Big Banks Waging Warfare Against the People of the World – by Washington’s Blog – 2011-07-12 Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info Syria beefs up security at embassies after attacks The Associated Press Mobs broke windows at both embassies Monday to protest a visit last week by the American and French ambassadors to the opposition stronghold of Hama in central Syria. The French Foreign Ministry said three embassy workers were injured. …… Continue reading
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Let them eat doughnuts: the US response to Bahrain's oppression By Mehdi Hasan
Syria was subjected to sanctions and Libya to air strikes; Bahrain, however, was rewarded with visits from the Pentagon’s two most senior officials – the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, and the then defence secretary, Robert Gates Continue reading
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France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed By Franklin Lamb
Tripoli — One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square is about how each morning Libya’s leader, following early morning Fajr prayers dons his formal uniform, complete with those huge epaulets, and salutes the small NATO flag he tapes to his bathroom mirror as he moves… Continue reading
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“Libyan campaign was staged to start conquering Africa” — RT
The NATO-led intervention in Libya and the unrest in Syria are both steps in a decades-long plan by the US and its allies to completely reshape the face of Africa, believes independent journalist and peace activist Thierry Maysan. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 11, 2011: Next Up: Pakistan: Ominous signs of a major new war
11 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House Next Up: Pakistan Ominous signs of a major new war By Justin Raimondo While keeping the heat on for a direct attack on Iran, the powerful pro-Israel lobby – the driving force behind the anti-Iran crowd – is biding its time, confident they’ll win in the end. In… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 11 July 2011
11 July 2011 — williambowles.info FEATURE-Libya’s ragtag rebels discover discipline in battle Reuters By Nick Carey EAST OF ZLITAN, Libya, July 11 (Reuters) – Midway through the morning, as Grad rockets whooshed through the branches of trees overhead, some of the young men of the 1st battalion Al Marsa regiment began to sing. A slow,… Continue reading
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Libyan PM urges UN intervention to stop NATO military attack
11 July 2011 TRIPOLI, July 10 (Xinhua) — Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi has urged UN intervention to stop NATO military attacks against the north African country, local media reported. Al-Mahmoudi made this appeal when meeting Saturday with Abdel Elah al-Khatib, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for Libya. NATO’s intensive airstrikes have caused… Continue reading
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Battle for Libya: Moscow is playing on two looms in Libya
Tripoli – The green national flag of Libya is fluttering in the hot desert wind. The border crossing Ras Jedir, between Tunisia and Libya,unbearable heat and a big crowd. There is about 113 degrees in shade, columns of cars and trucks, all pushing horns and trying to bypass the queue. Continue reading
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Video: West Funnels Illegal Weapons Into Libya By grtv
The sending of arms to the Libyan rebels is illegal, yet it has been going on almost since the beginning of the conflict there, believes Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya from the Centre for Research on Globalization. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 July, 2011: Weekend Roundup – Don't Support the Troops
10 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House Don’t Support the Troops – Bring Them Home By Sheldon Richman Politicians love nothing better than to pay tribute to “our troops,” especially those who have made “the ultimate sacrifice.” Yet those words stink of hypocrisy when one realizes that the same politicians create the conditions that then… Continue reading
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Global Research Selected Articles: America’s Global Military Mayhem
5 July 2011 — Global Research France arms anti-Gaddafi forces – by Julie Hyland – 2011-07-03 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 July, 2011: Israel gives award to tank shell used against civilians in Gaza
8 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians, Including Daughter Of Legislator IMEMC – Saturday July 09, 2011 – 03:30, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including the daughter of a female legislator from the central West Bank city of Ramallah.… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 9, 2011
9 July 2011 — Stop NATO Caribbean Community Heads Of State Condemn NATO’s War On Libya Romanian President: Would Have Joined Hitler’s Invasion Of Russia Counterinsurgency: U.S. Marines Conduct Training In Eight Black Sea, Balkans Countries Israel’s Netanyahu, Military Follow U.S. And NATO Into Bulgaria New NATO-EU Adjunct: Weimar Triangle Combat Group NATO Tankers Attacked… Continue reading
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5 Videos: Black Agenda Video Update — Eyewitness Libya, Confronting the Black Caucus on Libya
We usually send weekly updates on Wednesday. But events are moving quickly and the tide of corporate media disinformation is rising. The illegal and unjust war in Libya, along with similar adventures in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Pakistan grind on. A handful of US citizens, among them former GA congresswoman Cynthia McKinney have gone… Continue reading
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