PART I – THE WAR ON LIBYA AND THE COMING IMPERIAL REDIVISION OF AFRICA The London Conference on Libya was a forum for a new imperial carve-up of Africa. Plans to attack Libya have been longstanding and part of a strategy to control the supercontinent formed by Eurasia and Africa, known as the “World-Island.” But…
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The Libyan War, American Power And The Decline Of The Petrodollar System
Peter Dale Scott. Japan Focus The present NATO campaign against Gaddafi in Libya has given rise to great confusion, both among those waging this ineffective campaign, and among those observing it. Many whose opinions I normally respect see this as a necessary war against a villain – though some choose to see Gaddafi as the…
Libya: Kosovo’s Air War Redux
Stephen Gowans. What’s Left NATO’s military intervention in Libya began as an enforcement of a no-fly zone to protect civilians but has quickly morphed into an attack on civilian targets to undermine the morale of Gaddafi loyalists in order to turn them against the country’s leader. NATO has struck Gaddafi’s residence repeatedly, and in recent…
US-NATO Deploy Drones And Aid To Topple The Libyan Government
Imperialist states heighten war aimed at establishing beachhead in North Africa Abayomi Azikiwe. Pan-African News Wire Recent actions by the United States and NATO during late April indicates clearly that the ultimate objective of the war against Libya is regime change leading to full-scale military occupation of the North African state. As the humanitarian crisis…
The Theft Of Libya’s Sovereign Wealth Funds
Manlio Dinucci Il Manifesto The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters….
McCain In Benghazi
McCain praises men who killed US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tony Cartalucci. Featured Writer Ultimate act of treason: McCain calls for recognition and extra-legal support for the very men who had killed US troops in Iraqand Afghanistan. By denying “Al-Qaeda” a base in Iraq, but handingthem the entire nation of Libya, he has brought…
7 BBC Lies In A Single Article: France And Italy To Send Officers To Aid “Rebels”
Les Blough. Axis of Logic Axis of Logic Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 Editor’s Note: Our columnist, Arturo Rosales sends us this shameless BBC article (republished below), writing: “I recall that this is what the US did in Vietnam in the early 1960’s…..before sending in hundreds of thousands of troops and equipment. Now, where is the…
Cry Africa
Cry my beloved continent Farirai Chubvu AFRICA, my Africa will you ever find answers to the age-old questions that contorted you into a question mark shape? You, whose history has been bastardised, are you now averse to history and its lessons? Why do your children seem to be their worst enemies every time? Why do…
Libya: Who Wins?
While the media presents Western intervention in Libya as aiding a just uprising of the Libyan people, the reality is very different. Curtis Doebbler Watching the Western media, one would think that the Libya crisis was a domestic uprising in which the West felt morally obliged to help and came to aid of ordinary citizens….
Libyan Rebels Had NATO Weapons From Day One
Nickolay Starikov Libyan rebels from the Feb. 17 armed coup attempt to overthrow the Libyan government had brand new weapons since the first day of the uprising. These weapons were of non-Libyan origin and had already been secretly imported into Libya in advance of Feb. 17. There are millions of dollars worth of technically advanced…
Coalition Of Crusaders Join With Al Qaeda To Oust Qaddafi And Roll Back Libyan Revolution
Gerald A. Perreira Libya 360° A coalition of Crusaders, as Qaddafi described them, including the US, Britain, France, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Spain and Canada, have begun an all out military assault against Libya. Using what Libya claims is an invalid and illegal UN resolution as a pretext, the coalition is pounding the Libyan defense forces…
From Ivory Coast To Libya And Beyond: Africa Threatened With Western Military Subjugation
Rick Rozoff On April 5 the chairman of the African Union, Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, condemned French military operations in fellow West African nation Ivory Coast and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s war against Libya, stating: “Africa does not need any external influence. Africa must manage its own affairs.” Though hardly a model…
