Libya
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NATO in Syria: The Cost of a “New Libya” by grtv
The NATO mission in Libya back in 2011 was very popular. But is everyone convinced with a democratic Libya? The Political Bouillon asks Dr. Maximilian C. Forte what he thinks about this “new Libya”. Continue reading
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ICH 23 January 2013: Hagel Apologizes, Reassures Jewish Leaders on Iran Position
23 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Mali: the Fastest Blowback Yet in this Disastrous “War on Terror” By Seumas Milne The idea that jihadists in Mali, or Somalia for that matter, pose an existential threat to Britain, France, the US or the wider world is utter nonsense. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33701.htm Continue reading
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Obama Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Peace Laureates, “Drones Apart”. Martin Luther King: “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring.” By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the most blatant act of symbolism, as Africa is now threatened by a President who touted the importance of his African roots four years ago, Obama reaffirmed his Presidential oath today on both Abraham Lincoln’s Bible – and that of Martin Luther King – on the day dedicated to Martin Luther King. Continue reading
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Obama Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Peace Laureates, “Drones Apart”. Martin Luther King: “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring.” By Felicity Arbuthnot
In the most blatant act of symbolism, as Africa is now threatened by a President who touted the importance of his African roots four years ago, Obama reaffirmed his Presidential oath today on both Abraham Lincoln’s Bible – and that of Martin Luther King – on the day dedicated to Martin Luther King. Continue reading
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ICH 21 January 2013: Bomber in Chief: 20,000 Airstrikes in the President’s First Term
21 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Algeria Hostage Crisis: Most Weapons Used in Attack Came From Libya By Mélanie Matarese, Algiers The Islamists wore the same type of outfits that Qatar provided to Libyan National Transitional Council rebels by Qatar – The also employed 60mm gun-mortars used by France and Libyan rebels. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33673.htm Continue reading
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Efforts to divide spheres of influence in Africa By Natalya Kovalenko
The French armed forces are conducting a successful counter-terrorist operation in Mali. The town of Kona was retaken from the Islamists Thursday. The enemy suffered considerable losses, the military says. Among such cheerful statements the issue of what the foreign armed forces are doing in an alien country has been pushed into the background. Continue reading
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‘Pentagon’s hand behind French intervention in Mali’ By William Engdahl
As French soldiers pour into Mali in the fight to push back the advancing Islamist militants, questions have been raised as to the motives behind the intervention. Author William Engdahl told RT the US was using France as a scapegoat to save face. Continue reading
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ICH 18 January 2013: Burn, Burn – Africa’s Afghanistan
18 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot Incredibly it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang in the early hours and a friend said: “They are bombing Baghdad.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33657.htm Continue reading
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France and the U.S. Play Tag-Team in Africa By Glen Ford
The United States and France, once thought of as imperial competitors, act as military tag team partners in Africa. France puffed up like a hyper-aggressive peacock in the assault on Libya, and now strikes unilaterally against Islamists in Mali. But the junior imperialist’s brashness comes with the confidence that the superpower has its back. Continue reading
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ICH 16 January 2013: King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone
16 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Preplanned Mali invasion reveals France’s neo-colonialistic agenda By Finian Cunningham The precise nature of this “Islamist threat” from Mali is never spelled out or evidenced. . We are expected to accept the word of Paris, London and Washington – the rogue states that have and are conducting illegal wars Continue reading
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Mali is Libya all over again
The situation in Mali is directly linked to the Nato mobilisation in 2011 to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya. Continue reading
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Mali: the scramble for Africa by Paddy McGuffin
Western powers are once again using anti-Islamist rhetoric to justify colonial interventions, anti-war campaigners Stop the War Coalition claimed today. Continue reading
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ICH 15 January 2013: Blowback in Mali
15 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Mali and the Scramble for Africa:A New Wave of Barbarism By Ben Schreiner The notion that the West’s renewed interest in Africa is derived from an altruistic desire to help African states combat terrorism and establish democracy is rather absurd. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33622.htm Continue reading
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Obama in Africa: Somalia, Mali and the War Powers Resolution By Steve Breyman
Critics of President Obama’s 2011 aerial intervention in Libya may recall one of that conflict’s most striking features: the administration’s failure to invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution(WPR). The War Powers Resolution is that tasteless congressional fruit of the late Vietnam War era. Continue reading
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France invades Africa…again By Alex Lantier
Mali is the fourth country attacked by France in two years, after Libya, the Ivory Coast and Syria. Of these countries, all but Libya were former French colonies. Explanations for this war given by President François Hollande and other French officials—that France aims to defend Mali’s “democracy” from Al Qaeda, and not what Hollande called… Continue reading
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Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 9: The Real Motivations for the Balkanization of Syria
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is an analysts and award-winning author of the book The Globalization of NATO. He was on the ground in Libya reporting live for multiple media outlets as NATO conducted its merciless bombing of that country’s civilians and infrastructure. Today we discuss the real motivations for the Balkanization of Syria and why there… Continue reading
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France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali By Tony Cartalucci
A deluge of articles have been quickly put into circulation defending France’s military intervention in the African nation of Mali. TIME’s article, “The Crisis in Mali: Will French Intervention Stop the Islamist Advance?” decides that old tricks are the best tricks, and elects the tiresome “War on Terror” narrative. Continue reading
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ICH 13 January 2013: 100 Killed: France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali
13 January 2013 — Information Clearing House The “War On Terror” Spreads to Africa: By WashingtonsBlog The situation in Mali is simply a convenient, after-the-fact rationale for a long-planned expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Africa. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33601.htm Continue reading
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The Geopolitical Reordering of Africa: US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Northern Mali, France “Comes to the Rescue” By Tony Cartalucci
A deluge of articles have been quickly put into circulation defending France’s military intervention in the African nation of Mali. TIME’s article, “The Crisis in Mali: Will French Intervention Stop the Islamist Advance?” decides that old tricks are the best tricks, and elects the tiresome “War on Terror” narrative. Continue reading
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