Glen Ford President Obama demanded regime change in Libya more than three weeks ago, but now acts as if that’s not his policy. He will use the assault on Muamar Khadafi’s forces to introduce so-called “humanitarian intervention” as an anchor of the Obama Doctrine. Regime change will remain a basic tool, while the “humanitarian” ruse…
Category: Libya
Toxic Intervention: Are NATO Forces Poisoning Libya With Depleted Uranium As They ‘Protect’ Civilians?
Dave Lindorff President Obama’s criminal launch of an undeclared and Congressionally unauthorized war against Libya may be compounded by the crime of spreading toxic uranium oxide in populated areas of that country. This is latest concern of groups like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, which monitor the military use of so-called depleted-uranium (DU)…
UN Powers Violate International Law By Targeting Muammar Gaddafi
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com As the contrived moral high ground behind the absurdly hypocritical “humanitarian” pretext of the attack on Libya collapses in the wake of Russia, the Arab League and the African Union condemning the US-led NATO bombings, so does any pretense of legality that the “no fly zone” resolution holds, because the obvious…
Globalist’s Target Libya’s Coveted State-Owned Central Bank
Editor’s Note CIA backed al Qaeda Libyan rebels have established a new central bank and formed their own oil company according to Bloomberg, March 22, 2011. All this was accomplished less than five days after the passage U.N. Resolution 1973 to impose a “no fly zone” over Libya. For more information on the transitional council,…
Imperialism Or Barbarism!
Stephen Gowans The renegade Achcar Lebanese socialist Gilbert Achcar (author with Noam Chomsky of Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy) can cite chapter and verse on why the US-French-British-Canadian military intervention on the side of the armed uprising in Libya is imperialist, but that doesn’t mean he’s against it. On the contrary,…
Canadian Pilots Refuse To Bomb Assigned Libyan Targets For Fear Of Collateral Damage
Canadian pilots abort bombing over risk to civilians Two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets took part in a mission over Libya on Tuesday morning, but returned to base without attacking their target because the risk of collateral damage was too great. Canadian CF-18 fighters and Polaris CC-150 air-to-air refuelling tankers are helping enforce a no-fly zone…
Why The Relentless Demand For Regime Change In Libya?
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh In light of the brutal death and destruction wrought on Libya by the relentless US/NATO bombardment, the professed claims of “humanitarian concerns” as grounds for intervention can readily be dismissed as a blatantly specious imperialist ploy in pursuit of “regime change” in that country. There is undeniable evidence that contrary to the spontaneous,…
Who Are The Libyan Freedom Fighters And Their Patrons?
Peter Dale Scott Libya 360° Libyan Notebook Preface The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle East. What began as a memorable, promising, relatively nonviolent achievement of New Politics – the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt – has morphed very swiftly into a recrudescence of old…
Muammar Gaddafi’s Speech Before The Arab League March, 2008
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Who Is Muammar Gaddafi?
Leader of the World Revolution Antonio Cesar Oliveira Libya 360° How can you call someone a dictator a leader who overthrew a corrupt monarchy, modernized the country, won the highest HDI in Africa, and applied a direct democracy system of government? Gaddafi has always supported revolutionary movements around the world. When the media – in…
Bombing Libya: 1986-2011
Thomas C. Mountain In 1987 I was a member of the 1st US Peace Delegation to Libya. We went there to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the US bombing of Libya in 1986. In April 1986 US warplanes struck Tripoli at 2 am. They bombed the Gaddafi family residence, wounding several of his family members…
Egypt Arming The Libyan Rebels
WSJ claims “unusually robust diplomatic response from Arab states” toward Libya. Tony Cartalucci After the corporate owned media’s failed attempt in February 2011 to portray the Libyan unrest as “unarmed protesters” being brutalized by Gaddafi, reports began trickling in of what was actually a full-scale rebellion with weapons coming across the border from Egypt. These…
