Obama Lied About Gaddafi Bloodbath

President Obama said that Gaddafi’s regime was going to cause a bloodbath in Libya. Professor Alan J Kuperman of the University at Texas argues, however, that the president’s claims were exaggerated and that the civil war should be over by now. One month after they intervened, NATO and the US have not put an end…

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…

“Libyan Rebels” Minions Of NATO

The rebel rejection of an African Union ceasefire plan in Libya was to be expected, given that they are backed by the firepower of the Euro-American military colossus. In a real sense, however, “the rebels are not in a position to accept or reject anything,” having “chosen to become soldiers of an Arab counterrevolution in…

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…

The Lies Behind The War On Libya

Africans should think about the real reasons why western countries are waging war on Libya, writes Jean-Paul Pougala, in an analysis that traces the country’s role in shaping the African Union and the development of the continent. Jean-Paul Pougala Pambazuka News It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern…

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…

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…