Glen Ford Western reporters in Tripoli dismiss the casualties inflicted by their own countries’ bombs on Libyan civilians, but are careful to alert NATO when they themselves venture outside their hotels. The war criminals and their corporate media are morally – and probably legally – indistinguishable. “As facilitators of those crimes – through ceaseless propaganda,…
Category: Crimes Against Humanity
NATO Attack On Anti-Corruption Office An Attempt To Destroy Incriminating Evidence On Sarkozy And Others
Wayne Madsen. WMR. Footage from Libyan state TV showing the results of the NATO bombing of the Libyan Anti-Corruption Agency. French President Sarkozy stood to benefit politically from the destruction of Libyan investigation files on the looting of the Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund by Goldman Sachs. The NATO attack on Libya’s Anti-Corruption Agency on May…
Muammar Gaddafi’s Son And Three Grandchildren Killed In NATO Airstrike
Lin Noueihed | REUTERS | TRIPOLI | Sat Apr 30 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Saturday. “What we have now is the law of the jungle,” government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told a news conference….
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…
US-NATO Attempted Assassination Of Muammar Gaddafi
Bill Van Auken. WSWS With the attack Monday morning on the Bab al-Azizyah complex in Tripoli, the US-NATO war on Libya has entered a criminal new phase that incorporates the policy of state-organized assassination. Two large precision-guided bombs reduced buildings in the complex to rubble. Libyan officials reported three people killed and 45 wounded, 15…
Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse Of Nuclear War
Brzezinski’s map of the Eurasian Chessboard South Region: “This huge region, torn by volatile hatreds and surrounded by competing powerful neighbors, is likely to be a major battlefield, both for wars among nation-states and, more likely, for protracted ethnic and religious violence. Whether India acts as a restraint or whether it takes advantage of some…
America Considered A Nuclear Strike On Libya
While the operation in Libya against the Gaddafi regime is in full swing, some reports have surfaced that the Pentagon was planning a nuclear strike on Libya decades ago. Professor Michel Chossudovsky from the Centre for Research on Globalization claims that the US has planned nuclear strikes on Libya on a number of occasions in…
America’s Planned Nuclear Attack On Libya [Parts I&II]
Dangerous Crossroads: Is America Considering the Use of Nuclear Weapons against Libya? Michel Chossudovsky. Global Research PART I A war on Libya has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than 20 years. On April 14th 1986, Ronald Reagan ordered a series of bombings directed against Libya under “Operation El Dorado Canyon”,…
Depleted Uranium In Libya…Protecting Civilians?
US is establishing democracy in Libya “with fire and sword,” as they say. All the means are deployed to justify the goal, that is. The US has already used that tactics when they dropped thousands of depleted uranium bombs upon Fallujah, Iraq in 2003 and the result was appalling. Today the US is one of…
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…
Extra Judicial Killings in Guyana : “Champion of the Earth” Presides Over Death Squad Regime
“Africans in Guyana are marginalized in every sphere of our existence – economic, political and social.” Gerald A. Perreira In the Theatre of the Absurd anything is possible. And so it is that Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo, is among six winners from government, science, business and entertainment to be awarded this year’s United Nations Champion…