Obama October Surprise: Blaming al Qaeda
By : Diana Lee - Friday July 15, 2011 To keep the "war on terror" alive and continue to instill fear, the Obama administration needs a false flag scenario, like the 9/11 attacks, to justify to the American public for sending thousands of ground troops to invade Africa, starting with Libya. Just 2 weeks ago, the White House comes out with the latest counterterrorism strategy to turn inward to monitor the HOMELAND. Without giving any credible explanation, John Brennan, White House counterterrorism adviser, stated: "Indeed, (...)
read more, comments... "Why Libya? Why Qaddafi?
By : Husayn Al-Kurdi - Thursday July 14, 2011 By Husayn Al-Kurdi What are the reasons why the US government and its current President Barack Obama and his cabinet, are so vehement in their insistence that Libyan leader Mu’ammar el-Qaddafi "must go"? Why does the American regime insist on Qaddafi’s removal, to the extent of overseeing repeated bombings of his residences and other places where he may be staying or visiting, following a long series of assassination and coup attempts? Why do they continually reject overtures (...)
read more, comments... Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
By : Black Star News - Monday July 11, 2011 The "rebels" in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline "Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud." The "rebels" now eye the city of Tawergha, 25 miles away, and vow to cleanse it of all Black people once they seize the city. Isn’t this the perfect definition of the term "genocide"? According to The Journal’s article, the "rebels" refer to themselves as "the brigade for (...)
read more, comments... Those Libyan Atrocities: Do They Really Stand Up?
By : PATRICK COCKBURN - Sunday June 26, 2011 In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall Jackson turned to an aide and asked: "Did you ever think, sir, what an opportunity a battlefield affords liars?" He meant that in war people, motivated by fear, self-interest or a simple desire to make sense of a confusing and terrifying situation, make things up. And in the midst of a fast-moving conflict it is more than usually (...)
read more, comments... Amnesty Questions Claim That Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War
By : PATRICK COCKBURN - Sunday June 26, 2011 Human rights organizations have cast doubt on claims of mass rape and other abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which have been widely used to justify Nato’s war in Libya. Nato leaders, opposition groups and the media have produced a stream of stories since the start of the insurrection on February 15, claiming the Gaddafi regime has ordered mass rapes, used foreign mercenaries and employed helicopters against civilian protesters. An investigation by (...)
read more, comments... The Super Rich Sabotage the Arab Revolutions
By : Shamus Cooke - Monday June 20, 2011 The Super Rich Sabotage the Arab Revolutions by Shamus Cooke Global Research, June 20, 2011 With revolutions sweeping the Arab world and bubbling-up across Europe, aging tyrants or discredited governments are doing their best to cling to power. It’s hard to over-exaggerate the importance of these events: the global political and economic status-quo is in deep crisis. If pro-democracy or anti-austerity movements emerge victorious, they’ll have an immediate problem to solve (...)
read more, comments... Libya: a deafening silence
By : Jody McIntyre - Saturday June 11, 2011 So now we are sending Apache jets to bomb Libyan civilians. An escalation in yet another bloody NATO war. Or, in the words of Colonel Jason Etherington, “it just brings something else to the party.” The entire media have fallen into line. This is a war to protect civilians. This is a war to force Gaddafi to leave. As if Western governments, with their proud histories of human rights abuses across the world, have any moral right to make judgements on the government of Libya. (...)
read more, comments... NATO official: Gadhafi a legitimate target
By : Fran Townsend - Friday June 10, 2011 A U.N. resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission told CNN Thursday. Asked by CNN whether Gadhafi was being targeted, the NATO official declined to give a direct answer. The resolution applies to Gadhafi because, as head of the military, he is part of the control and command structure and therefore a legitimate target, the official said. NATO has been ramping up pressure on the (...)
read more, comments... BRICS: Push for Fair World Order
By : INDER MALHOTRA - Wednesday June 8, 2011 BRICS: Push for Fair World Order BY INDER MALHOTRA DURING its short existence, BRICS, an association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has made an impressive showing. Initially consisting of the first four countries and known as BRIC, the association had held its first summit at Yekaterinburg in Russia in the summer of 2009. The next year the second summit took place at Brasilia, and the latest and the third at Sanya in the Chinese island of Hainan. It was here that South (...)
read more, comments... (videos) The cluster bombing of Misrata: The case against the USA
By : HRI Mark - Tuesday June 7, 2011 The ongoing HRI investigation of the use of cluster munitions in Misrata in April 2011 has found convincing evidence the bombing was committed by US naval forces. The bombing of Misrata On the 15th April 2011, during the day, sub-munitions of a MAT-120 cluster munition were shown to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and C.J. Chivers, a journalist for the New York Times, in Misrata. On that evening, during ongoing clashes between rebel and loyalist forces, Human Rights Watch workers witnessed 3 or (...)
read more, comments... Aircraft carrier left us to die, say migrants
By : Jack Shenker - Tuesday May 10, 2011 Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised Dozens of African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean after a number of European military units apparently ignored their cries for help, the Guardian has learned. Two of the nine survivors claim this included a Nato ship. A boat carrying 72 passengers, including several women, young children and political refugees, ran into trouble in late March after leaving Tripoli for (...)
read more, comments... Libyan migrants’ boat deaths to be investigated by Council of Europe
By : Jack Shenker - Tuesday May 10, 2011 Human rights body demands inquiry into failure of European military units to save 61 migrants on boat fleeing Libya Europe’s paramount human rights body, the Council of Europe, has called for an inquiry into the deaths of 61 migrants in the Mediterranean, claiming an apparent failure of military units to rescue them marked a "dark day" for the continent. Mevlüt Çavusoglu, president of the council’s parliamentary assembly, demanded an "immediate and comprehensive inquiry" into (...)
read more, comments... WHY WE SAY STOP BOMBING LIBYA NOW
By : No War - Wednesday April 20, 2011 A packed special meeting of the Stop the War national steering committee last Saturday brought delegates from across the country and from affiliated organisations to discuss the issues arising from the attack on Libya and wider issues of the "war on terror". The statement last week signed by Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy made it clear that this is now a war of regime-change, which is neither sanctioned by the UN resolution nor legal under international law. How the (...)
read more, comments... If Cairo Came to Kabul
By : David Swanson - Wednesday April 20, 2011 Before Tahrir Square happened almost nobody predicted that President Hosni Mubarak would be forced out of office by a movement that didn’t pick up a gun. Had President Barack Obama expected that outcome, he might have publicly backed Mubarak’s departure before, rather than after, Mubarak stepped down. Obama can be seen as overcompensating for that performance in Libya, but there he is placing faith in weapons. Anybody can do that. Egypt still has a long way to go on its path to (...)
read more, comments... STOP THE BOMBING OF LIBYA NOW: PROTEST 19 APRIL
By : London - Monday April 18, 2011 Britain France and the US have now come clean. The article signed by Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama, and published today in Washington, Paris and London, makes clear the war on Libya is not about protecting civilians but about regime change. Having ignored peace moves from the African Union, NATO is now set on escalating the bombing. The humanitarian spin they are putting on the operation is exposed by the fact that the Western governments continue to support brutal (...)
read more, comments... The Great Libyan Distraction
By : Immanuel Wallerstein - Monday April 11, 2011 The entire Libyan conflict of the last month – the civil war in Libya, the U.S.-led military action against Gaddafi – is neither about humanitarian intervention nor about the immediate supply of world oil. It is in fact one big distraction – a deliberate distraction – from the principal political struggle in the Arab world. There is one thing on which Gaddafi and Western leaders of all political views are in total accord. They all want to slow down, channel, co-opt, (...)
read more, comments... SOS IVORY COAST
By : PEACEINAFRICA - Monday April 11, 2011 INHOFE FACT CHECK ON FRENCH EMBASSY “FACT SHEET” from the French Ambassador, dated April 6, 2011 April 7, 2011 French say: Fact Sheet on Côte d’Ivoire(April 6, 2011)“After many delays, including on the part of then-President Laurent Gbagbo, a presidential election was held in Côte d’Ivoire last fall. Since then, its results have been certified by the local monitoring mission and acknowledged by the international community, including the United States, the (...)
read more, comments... Egyptians Marching To Gaza Border!
By : Johnny Canuck - Sunday March 6, 2011 Press TV Hundreds of Egyptians are marching to the country’s border with the Gaza Strip to demand that it be opened. They are currently in Al Arish, about 50 kilometres from Rafah. Press TV correspondent Roshan Muhammed Salihis is also in Al Arish, where he spoke to several of the Egyptian activists who told him they plan to hold a demonstration on the border on Sunday, (March 6) with the aim of entering the besieged territory. Another member of the Tahrir4Gaza campaign told Press (...)
read more, comments... Petroleum and Empire in North Africa
By : Johnny Canuck - Friday March 4, 2011 by Keith Harmon Snow "Are events unfolding in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt more about petro-terrorism or about freedom and democracy? How much oil is there in North Africa? Who is in control of that oil? What is the relationship between the West and Muammar Gaddafi? People wishing to support the legitimate grievances and actions for freedom and truth in Libya should challenge the Western terrorist apparatus out of Washington DC, Tel Aviv, Brussels, London and Ottawa...." (...)
read more, comments... Fidel Castro’s Reflections: NATO’s Inevitable War
By : Fidel Castro - Friday March 4, 2011 Cuban Revolution leader said that in contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort. NATO’S INEVITABLE WAR In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies (...)
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