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…
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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…
Libya And The American Dilema: Bomb, Invade, Partition, Or All The Above
LIBYA AND THE AMERICAN DILEMA: BOMB, INVADE, PARTITION OR ALL OF THE ABOVE “The West dearly wishes to appropriate to itself a section of the ‘Arab revolt,’ so as to bomb an evil ‘dictator’ on their behalf.” Glen Ford UPDATED: As Khadafi’s forces prepare to encircle the rebel stronghold at Benghazi, western media remain curiously…
Libya: Imperialists Protecting Profits From An Outbreak Of Peace
Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy sent a message to the African Union in their jointly written April 14 op-ed: They’ll block any attempt to negotiate peace in Libya that doesn’t include Gaddafi’s ouster and the opening of Libya’s economy. Stephen Gowans. What’s Left On April 14 US president Barak Obama, British prime minister David Cameron and…
Striking Parallels Between Libya And Yugoslavia
In the light of war in Libiya many Serbs are drawing parralels with their own drama. Twelve years ago NATO attacked former Yugoslavia under the guise of humanitarian aid. Now history is repeating itself in Libya. Michel Chussodovsky from the Centre for Research on Globalization says the coalition forces in Libya may say humanitarianism is…
Recognizing The “Opposition” Constitutes A Pretext For “Intervention”
Editor’s Note: Recognizing the “opposition” may be considered a “pretext” by NATO whose sole purpose is to manufacture and perpetuate endless wars, but there is no legitimate pretext for any military intervention whatsoever. Those dedicated to ending war and evolving humanity beyond the present reactionary consciousness that can be manipulated to consent to such atrocities…
The Ravaging Of Africa
The Ravaging of Africa is a four part audio documentary series about the destructive impact of US imperialism on the continent. Part 1: Miitarizing Africa Click here to download this episode. Part 2: Economic Warfare Click here to download this episode. Part 3: Corporate Plunder Click here to download this episode. Part 4: African Resistance…
Special Forces Unconventional Warfare Manual 2010
TC 18-01 RELATED: Snipers and Death Squads: Terror Tactics Of U.S. Soft Power 97 pages Distribution authorized to U.S. Government agencies and their contractors only Foreign Distribution Restriction November 2010 1-1. The intent of U.S. UW efforts is to exploit a hostile power’s political, military, economic, and psychological vulnerabilities by developing and sustaining resistance forces…
Keith Harmon Snow: The Pentagon’s Massive Psyop Against Libya
War Correspondent Keith Harmon Snow says there is a psychological operation being perpetrated against the public by the Pentagon to persuade the American people support a full scale military invasion of Libya. Maidhc Ó Cathail adds this observation: “As Keith Harmon Snow rightly points out: “The biggest terrorists in the world are getting away with…
The War On Libya: Kosovo Redux
Diana Johnstone Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance is gearing up for another victorious little “humanitarian war”, this time against Libya. The differences are, of course, enormous. But let’s look at some of the disturbing similarities….
NATO-Backed Insurgents Reverse Decades Of Progress In African Cooperation
David Rothscum As I have sought to explain here before, the Libyan rebels are not what we consider them to be. Now, before I get the accusation thrown at me that I paint the Libyan rebels with a wide brush, I want to make it clear that not all Libyan rebels share the same goals,…
US-NATO Threats To Libya’s Sovereignty And Territorial Integrity
Antonia E. Paris. Libya 360° The present situation in Libya is grave, with Philippine attention focused on the thousands of Filipino workers there who are fleeing the turmoil and are in need of immediate repatriation. Almost half of the 26,000 Filipino workers in Libya are in conflict areas, and many of them are technical and…
