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  • Where U.S. Chooses to Back ‘Armed Struggle’
    4 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Within a few days, the “Silmiya” (peaceful) popular uprising against the 42-year old rule of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya had turned into an “armed struggle” and in no time the U.S. administration was in full gear backing the Libyan armed violent revolt, which has turned into a full scale civil war, despite being the same world power who officially label the legitimate (according to the charter of the United Nations) armed defense of the Palestinian people against the 34- (…)

  • Noam Chomsky: On Libya and the Unfolding Crises
    3 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    1. What are U.S. motives in international relations most broadly? That is, what are the over arching motives and themes one can pretty much always find informing U.S. policy choices, no matter where in the world we are discussing? What are the somewhat more specific but still over arching motives and themes for U.S. policy in Middle East and the Arab world? Finally, what do you think are the more proximate aims of U.S. policy in the current situation in Libya?
    A useful way to approach the (…)

  • C.I.A. Agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels
    1 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials.
    While President Obama has insisted that no American military ground troops participate in the Libyan campaign, small groups of C.I.A. operatives have been working in Libya for several weeks as part of a shadow force of Westerners (…)

  • No-fly zone: Clouding words of war
    31 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The West has used euphemism to deny a state of war against Gaddafi under the guise of a humanitarian mission.
    Phantasms from the 1990s are upon us: no-fly zones; the rhetoric of humanitarian war in Washington, Europe and the UN; guarantees that no US ground troops will be deployed; an air war which alone cannot decisively affect earthbound events.
    President Obama swung for ringing tones in his statement on Libya, condemning idleness in the face of merciless tyrants who brutally assault (…)

  • THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
    31 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    A JAZZMAN CHRONICLE. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    “It is time to become what American principles and values insist that we must become. It is time to be what our leaders have always claimed that we were: a beacon of justice, human rights and democracy. It is time to fulfill the promise of our forefathers. Our destiny cannot and must not be to dominate the world but rather to improve the lot of human kind.”
    The Jazzman Chronicles, Volume One, Principles of Foreign Policy.
    I believe in democracy. (…)

  • Libya is another case of selective vigilantism by the west
    30 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bombing Tripoli while shoring up other despots in the Arab world shows the UN-backed strikes to oust Gaddafi are purely cynical
    The US-Nato intervention in Libya, with United Nations security council cover, is part of an orchestrated response to show support for the movement against one dictator in particular and by so doing to bring the Arab rebellions to an end by asserting western control, confiscating their impetus and spontaneity and trying to restore the status quo ante.
    It is (…)

  • Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean
    28 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy invited the heads of state of the EU’s 27 members and those of 17 non-EU Mediterranean countries to attend a conference in Paris to launch a Mediterranean Union.
    In the words of Britain’s Daily Telegraph regarding the subsequent summit held for the purpose on July 13, 2008, “Sarkozy’s big idea is to use imperial Rome’s centre of the (…)

  • NATO = NEOCOLONIALISTS ALLOW TYRANNY OPPORTUNISTICALLY
    28 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to some prognosticators, the world will end in 2012. This hypothesis is based upon many beliefs, including the prophecies of the Hopi Indians and the Mayan Long Count Calendar.
    I’ll admit, the world’s demise did not seem far-fetched when George W. Bush and his cabal of liars, sadists, torturers and war criminals illegally controlled the White House. But the election of Barack Obama in 2008 seemed to reinvigorate the spirit of the world, and made people believe in the power of (…)

  • Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links
    28 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
    In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".
    Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are (…)

  • Benghazi : a snake’s nest of Al-Qaeda
    28 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Reports from Libya and the events around it exceeded the amount of information published in the international media about the African country with a population of 5 million people over the past 40 years.
    Despite this, some significant, we can say crucial details of what’s really going on in Libya remain outside the focus of media and, consequently, the general public.
    "Transitional Government" of " so called «pro-democratic forces» who are fighting against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi (…)