Tag: Security Council

The Strange Thing About Cluster Bombs By Jim Naureckas

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6 September 2013 — FAIR Blog

These are not the bad kind of cluster bomb, because they are dropped on and not by official enemies. (photo: US Air Force)

These are not the bad kind of cluster bomb, because they are dropped on and not by official enemies. (photo: US Air Force)

The New York Times has an article today (9/5/13) about a Human Rights Watch report charging Syria’s government with the use of  cluster bombs, a “widely prohibited weapon.”  Cluster bombs are munitions that release hundreds of miniature explosives; as the Times‘ Rick Gladstone writes, “Each bomblet detonates on impact, spraying shrapnel in all directions and killing, maiming and destroying indiscriminately.”

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The NATO Economy, the solution to the U.S. crisis? By Thierry Meyssan

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3 March 2013 — Voltaire Network 

During his annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama unilaterally announced the opening of negotiations for a Transatlantic Global Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union (12 February). A few hours later, the scoop was confirmed by a joint statement from the U.S. President and the Presidents of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy and European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.

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The battle of Damascus has begun By Thierry Meyssan

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24 July 2012 — Global Research – Voltaire Network

Western and Gulf powers have launched the largest secret war operation since the Contra war in Nicaragua. 

The Battle of Damascus is not intended to topple President Bashar al-Assad, but to fracture the Syrian Army to better ensure the domination of Israel and the U.S. over the Middle East. While the city is bracing for a new assault by foreign mercenaries, Thierry Meyssan takes stock of the situation. Continue reading →

Assad in Western eyes: From riches to rags By Dmitry Babich

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29 February, 2012 — Voice of Russia

The recent pronouncements by Western leaders and the monarchs of the Persian Gulf  Emirates on the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his regime make one want to rub one’s eyes. Are we hearing them from the same people we have just seen shaking hands with Assad and hinting at lucrative contracts with his “regime”? Didn’t the French president Nicolas Sarkozy consider it an honor to meet Assad at his Elysee Palace just one year before? Now Sarkozy calls him a “mass killer.” And wasn’t Sarkozy’s glamorous wife Carla Bruni entertained by the company of Assad’s British-raised wife, Asma? And can a person indeed change from a welcome guest to a mass killer in the short period between December 2010, when al-Assad’s last visit to France took place, and now?

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Diplomatic Blowback By Craig Murray

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5 October 2011 — Craig Murray

Here is something you won’t find in any western media. Part of the actual Russian speech or ‘Explanation of Vote’ for their veto of the UN Resolution on Syria. It is worth reading. It is my own translation from the website of the Russian mission to the UN. There will be an official UN translation circulated in New York, but there will not be major differences: Continue reading →

National Security Archive Update, September 11, 2011: New Documents Detail America's Strategic Response to 9/11

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11 September 2011 — National Security Archive

Secret U.S. Message to Mullah Omar: “Every Pillar of the Taliban Regime Will Be Destroyed”
New Documents Detail America’s Strategic Response to 9/11
Bush White House Resistant to Rebuilding Afghanistan
Rumsfeld’s War Aim: “Significantly Change the World’s Political Map”

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“Operation Mermaid Dawn”: NATO carnage in Tripoli By Thierry Meyssan

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21 August 2011 — Voltaire Net

From Tripoli, Thierry Meyssan reports on the carnage he has witnessed. Article posted on Monday, at 0:35 AM.

On Saturday, 20 August 2011, at 8:00 PM, that is to say just after the Iftar, the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the Atlantic Alliance launched “Operation Mermaid.”

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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 6, 2011

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6 August 2011 — Stop NATO

  • Media Coalition: NATO, Israel Breached Geneva Convention, Security Council Resolution
  • NATO ‘Protects’ Libyan Civilians By Killing Them
  • U.S. Navy Drone Shot Down Along Libyan Coast
  • U.S. Marines Extend Counterinsurgency Front From Black To Caspian Sea
  • Afghanistan: Four Killed In Anti-NATO Rally
  • Georgia: U.S. Marines And Machine Guns
  • New Japanese Defense White Paper A Ploy

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Syria Newslinks 5 August 2011

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5 August 2011 — williambowles.info

Syrian unrest charges Lebanese tinderbox
Asia Times Online Today at Noon
The protests and violent counter-protests in Syria are echoed in Tripoli, the second-largest city in Lebanon and a microcosm of the treacherous field of Lebanese politics. Recent clashes in the city show that sectarianism remains a tinderbox, with the specter of competing factions in the country and beyond keen to enter the fray. – Chris Zambelis (Aug 5, ’11)

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The Role of the UN Security Council in Unleashing an Illegal War against Libya By Ronda Hauben

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20 July, 2011 — Global Research

Journalists Question Security Council Support for Rebel Group

At the April 4 press conference marking the beginning of the Colombian Presidency of the Security Council for April, Nestor Osorio, the Colombian Ambassador to the United Nations was asked what on the surface would seem an unusual question by one of the journalists. The journalist said (1):

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The War in Libya: The African Union’s Mistake of Policy and Principle By Dr. Kwame Akonor

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14 June 2011 — IPS ipsnews.net

NEW YORK, Jun 10, 2011 (IPS) – Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future strategic interests.

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Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya

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29 March 2011 — URUK Net – economiccollapseblog

The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company. Perhaps when this conflict is over those rebels can become time management consultants. They sure do get a lot done. What a skilled bunch of rebels – they can fight a war during the day and draw up a new central bank and a new national oil company at night without any outside help whatsoever. If only the rest of us were so versatile! But isn’t forming a central bank something that could be done after the civil war is over? According to Bloomberg, the Transitional National Council has ‘designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi.’ Apparently someone felt that it was very important to get pesky matters such as control of the banks and control of the money supply out of the way even before a new government is formed.

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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war 22 March 2011

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22 March 2011 — Stop NATO

World Steps Up Criticism Of Western Attacks On Libya
China Calls For Immediate End To Western Attacks On Libya
U.S. Warplane Crashes In Libya
Eight Warplanes: Sweden Follows NATO Into Another War
First Combat Mission For Eurofighter: British MPs Back War
Duty To NATO: Canadian MPs Unanimously Back Libyan War
Greece: Air And Naval Bases, Warship, AWACS “At NATO’s Disposal”
UN Security Council To Reconvene On Libya
“No-Fly Zone”: Video Of NATO’s Highway Of Death
Libya: Yet Another Imperialist Military Intervention

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Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley

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22 March, 2011 — Global Research – http://tarpley.net/

On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Acting under UN Security Council resolution 1973, US naval forces in the Mediterranean on Saturday night local time fired 112 cruise missiles at targets which the Pentagon claimed were related to Libya’s air defense system. But Mohammed al-Zawi, the Secretary General of the Libyan Parliament, told a Tripoli press conference that the “barbaric armed attack” and “savage aggression” had hit residential areas and office buildings as well as military targets, filling the hospitals of Tripoli and Misurata with civilian victims. Zawi accused the foreign powers of acting to protect a rebel leadership which contains notorious terrorist elements. The Libyan government repeated its request for the UN to send international observers to report objectively on events in Libya. Continue reading →

Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley

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22 March, 2011 — Global Research – http://tarpley.net/

On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Acting under UN Security Council resolution 1973, US naval forces in the Mediterranean on Saturday night local time fired 112 cruise missiles at targets which the Pentagon claimed were related to Libya’s air defense system. But Mohammed al-Zawi, the Secretary General of the Libyan Parliament, told a Tripoli press conference that the “barbaric armed attack” and “savage aggression” had hit residential areas and office buildings as well as military targets, filling the hospitals of Tripoli and Misurata with civilian victims. Zawi accused the foreign powers of acting to protect a rebel leadership which contains notorious terrorist elements. The Libyan government repeated its request for the UN to send international observers to report objectively on events in Libya.

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