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….
Category: United Nations
The US-NATO Agenda In Libya And The Next Great War
Paul Craig Roberts In the 1930s the US, Great Britain, and the Netherlands set a course for World War II in the Pacific by conspiring against Japan. The three governments seized Japan’s bank accounts in their countries that Japan used to pay for imports and cut Japan off from oil, rubber, tin, iron and other…
The War On Libya: The Perpetrators And Manipulators
In this interview, we focus on the war in Libya with political writer Diana Johnstone. She is the author of “Fools Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions”. Recently, Diana has written two very revealing articles for counterpunch.org called “Libya another Kosovo – NATO and Coalition Bombs for Peace” and “Why are They Making War on…
The UN An Instrument Of Western Aggression
Ghali Hassan Axis of Logic On 19 March the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) succumbed to the usual threats and coercions by the U.S. and voted to impose a “no-fly” zone and declare war on Libya on the pretext to “protect Libyan civilians” from violence. History shows that the UN does not have a record…
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…
Obama’s Imperial Twist: Regime Change In Libya
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…
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…
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,…
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…
