Muammar Gaddafi: Zawiya, July 19, 2011

The leader of the revolution, the founder of free modern Libya, asserted that Libyans, after months of defiance against the offensives, acquired a pioneering role and international leadership to lead the peoples against imperialism, occupation and an era’s tyrants. In his speech to the massive rally gathering in Zawia city yesterday Saturday, the leaders explained…

Attack Helicopters, Predator & Reaper Drones Over Libya

Chris Pocock Aviation International News 7.18.11 Attack Helicopters Boost NATO Air Ops over Libya Recent briefings in Brussels and London on Operation Unified Protector reveal that attack helicopters provided by France and the UK are now making key contributions to NATO-led operations over Libya, which has been extended until the end of September. British AH-64…

Who Decides On Nation States?

Wayne Madsen Strategic Culture Foundation The national aspirations of peoples are governed by rank public relations schemes. On July 9, the Republic of South Sudan became the newest internationally-recognized nation-state. As the result of a civil war truce and peace deal worked out five years previously, South Sudan and its former master, the Republic of…

NATO Launches Bombing Blitzkreig Over Tripoli

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research 7.17.11 TRIPOLI — NATO started a bombing Blitzkrieg in Tripoli which lasted initially for almost two hours, from approximately 12:00 to 12:30 a.m. EET to 2:00 a.m. local time (EET). Then there was a period of silence until approximately 2:30 a.m. and later at 2:45 a.m. EET large explosions could…

NATO and the Ingratitude of the Libyan People

The Coalition of the Willing had come to Libya to spare civilians from Gaddafi’s murderous madness. Four months later, the Libyan crowds have deserted “Liberated Benghazi” and are staging gigantic anti-NATO demonstrations. Confronted with an unexpected political reality, the Atlantic armada has been left without a strategy. The Italians have started to pull out while…

The West’s “Political Solution” is No Solution for Libya

Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Ghana News 7.17.11 That it has taken them such a long time to come to this realization is regrettable but unexpected because it is characteristic of war-mongers who repose more trust in armaments and raw military muscle than common sense in attempting to solve another country’s internal political problem…In substance, the…

NATO Targeting Libya’s Frozen Assets

Interview with author and historian, Webster Tarpley, Washington Heavy clashes between forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi and revolutionaries have broken out as anti-regime forces are pushing towards the capital Tripoli. Meanwhile, the embattled Libyan ruler has once again rejected calls to resign and leave the country, saying that he will never leave the…

Foreign Intervention Behind The Creation Of South Sudan

DOWNLOAD THE MP3 AUDIO of this report TRANSCRIPT Welcome. This is James Corbett of The Corbett Report with your Sunday Update from The Centre for Research on Globalization at globalresearch.ca for this 17th day of July, 2011. And now for the real news. The world welcomed a new nation to the international community last week…

Libya in Pictures: What Western Media Does Not Want You to Know

This is Libya: On-the-Ground Scenes from Tripoli, July 2011 Tripoli, Libya, July 2011 On-the-ground scenes taken during mass protests against NATO’s assault on Libya, which have been largely ignored and unreported by mainstream media. All photos © Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, CRG and Réseau Voltaire, 2011. Global Research reports from Tripoli. Western journalists have distorted what…

The Old Imperialist Project To Divide Libya In Three Has Been Executed

The division of Libya into three separate countries has been an old imperialist objective of the U.S., Britain, Italy, and France. There have been at least five attempts to divide Libya. The NATO war launched against Libya in 2011 is merely the latest attempt to bring this about. The July 2011 gathering in Istanbul of…

Green Light To Use DU In Libya?

Global Research International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons Global Research Editor’s Note Consult the statements of the UK and the US indicated below (with a *). They deny that DU are being used but they also state that NATO allies are “free to use them”. UK Defence Minister Dr Liam Fox says UK use of…

Keith Harmon Snow – The Partitioning Of Sudan

Corbett Report Podcast: Play in new window | Download Writer, photographer, human rights investigator and award-winning journalist Keith Harmon Snow joins us to discuss the real story behind the creation of the new state of South Sudan and what we need to know about western economic, financial, social and military interventionism in the region. To…