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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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….
Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2011
No Surrender Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure? – Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called for negotiations with NATO to stop the coalition’s air strikes against his country. Speaking live on late-night television, Mr…
US-NATO Defend Policy Of Assassination Of Muammar Gaddafi
Patrick Martin. WSWS The Obama administration and spokesmen for NATO have publicly defended the targeting of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi through air strikes on his residential compound in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. NATO warplanes struck the residence on Monday and destroyed much of it, but the Libyan leader escaped the assassination attempt unhurt. F-16 fighter-bombers…
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…
Assassinate Muammar Gaddafi?
Tyrants beware. What goes around might come around. Tony Cartalucci No one will miss these people: The elite should think carefullybefore raising the stakes. Nation-states may retaliate in kind to threats of assassination and growing, naked aggression. Bangkok, Thailand, April 25, 2011 – Peddling a policy that includes assassinating the leader of a sovereign nation,…
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…
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…
