Tunisia
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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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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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Libya Newslinks 20-21 August 2011
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info 21 August 2011Libya rebels seek to avoid Tripoli battleReutersBy Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – Libyan rebel forces ill-equipped to fight their way into a city the size of Tripoli may look to locally brokered deals or a burgeoning popular uprising to break the will of Muammar …http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/21/us-libya-tripoli-battle-idUSTRE77K1O320110821 Continue reading
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FRANKLIN LAMB: TRIPOLI ON THE CUSP
Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by ‘NATO rebels’ and certainly not by NATO country forces putting their boots on the ground. Continue reading
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The Future of Arab Revolts: Interview with Samir Amin By Hassane Zerrouky
The way Egyptian scholar and researcher Samir Amin sees it, nothing will be the same as before in the Arab world: protest movements will challenge both the internal social order of Arab countries and their places in the regional and global political chessboard. Continue reading
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New a Strategic Culture Foundation 7-15 July 2011: Afghanistan / Syria / India / USA / Tunisia /
16 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Wali Karzai Assassination and Its Consequences 15.07.2011 | 12:00 | Najmuddin A. SHAIKH What is not contested is that Ahmad Wali’s untimely death will add another layer of high uncertainty to the political and administrative turbulence that now prevails in Afghanistan. Ahmad Wali was indisputably, from the Continue reading
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New York Times stands by Ethan Bronner’s Facebook fabrications By Ali Abunimah
The New York Times has told The Electronic Intifada it stands fully behind an article by its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner despite compelling evidence that the article contains fabrications, misleading statements, and gross exaggerations. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Video Update — Two More Eyewitness Libya Videos
Although US drones are flying in, and US bombs are falling from Libyan skies, the president insists that the US is not waging war in Libya. The facts however, say otherwise. This week’s Black Agenda Video update includes two members of US citizen fact finding delegations, the Bay Area’s Dedon Kamathi and Atlanta’s Lucy Grider… Continue reading
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Moeletsi Mbeki: On Wealth creation in South Africa
I CAN predict when SA’s ‘Tunisia Day’ will arrive. Tunisia Day is when the masses rise against the powers that be, as happened recently in Tunisia. The year will be 2020, give or take a couple of years. The year 2020 is when China estimates that its current minerals-intensive industrialisation phase will be concluded. 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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NORTH AFRICA: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REVOLT Middle East Report 259 12 June 2011
Tunisia and Egypt, where the 2011 Arab rebellions began, will do much to determine the course of the upheavals elsewhere. The degree of political democracy that Tunisians and Egyptians achieve will be the most watched barometer. But just as important will be the extent of reform of the economic order. Continue reading
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Apartheid, Sand Nigger Style: The Tunisian Model for a New Colonialism in Libya? By Nathaniel X. Turner
The Great White Fathers of Europe and the United States excel in lies, lies and damnable lies. ‘’Humanitarian intervention’ by Europeans in Africa is always a subterfuge for theft, mass murder, and sadism’ – Europe’s main export to the world. ‘This is a new scramble for the African Continent.’ Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney’s truth dispatches from Libya: Days 1-3 By Wayne Madsen
During the last air sanctions against Libya, imposed by the United Nations in 1992 over alleged Libyan involvement in the bombings of PanAm 103 and UTA 772, many Libyans traveling to and from Tripoli were forced to fly through Tunisia, traveling overland to and from the Tunisian border to their homes in Libya. With European… Continue reading
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Western Libya Portrait is not What is being Painted by Mainstream Media By Wayne Madsen
Western media reports continue to indicate that Libyan rebels trying to oust Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi from power, backed by daily NATO air strikes, are gaining ground in western Libya but during a six-hour drive from the Tunisian border to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, this reporter saw no signs of Libyan rebel successes in western… Continue reading
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Spain’s Tahrir Embracing Egypt’s Tahrir
Placa Tahrir Placa Catalonia in Barcelona. The white sign underneath says it all: “Tunisia, Egypt, Libya! One struggle, ONE fight.” Continue reading
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“Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt” – Samir Amin
Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt. The (Gaddafi) bloc in power and the forces fighting against it have no analogues in Tunisia or Egypt. Gaddafi has never been anything but a clown whose vacuous thought is reflected in the famous ‘Green Book.’ Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 24 March 2011
24 March 2011 — creative-i.info Tunisia freezes Gaddafi family assets-govt source Reuters Africa TUNIS, March 24 (Reuters) – Libya’s neighbour Tunisia has frozen assets belonging to the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, a Tunisian government source said on Thursday. Western countries, the United Nations and the European Union have already … af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE72N0GS20110324 Continue reading
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Tunisia's Ongoing Revolution By Matt Swagler
In December and January, a nationwide movement emerged in Tunisia, led by workers, students and the unemployed, calling for the hated autocrat to go. After just four weeks, the Tunisian people achieved what had seemed impossible: they challenged a 23-year dictatorship backed by a massive, brutal security force – and won. In doing so, they… Continue reading
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Algeria's Rebellion by Installments By Azzedine Layachi
In mid-February, with autocratic rulers deposed in Tunisia and Egypt, and another tottering in Libya, the National Coordination for Change and Democracy took to the streets in the capital of Algeria. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 