France, Britain and Italy, whose warplanes are bombing Moammar Gadhafi’s military in western Libya, have also put “boots on the ground” in the rebel-held east. But these European soldiers tread lightly. “If you see them please ask them to come and have a cup of tea with me,” joked Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, the rebels’…
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Libyan And Syrian Regimes Marked For Extermination With Extreme Prejudice
Eric Margolis, a columnist, author and war correspondent, says he got the impression that Gaddafi had the strength of character to survive challenges back in the 1980s, when he interviewed the Libyan leader in person. Margolis also stated the US has been behind the assault on Libya all along. In Libya, more NATO air strikes…
Humanitarian Interventionists Fund Genocide In The Horn Of Africa
West Funds Full Blown Genocide in Ethiopia Thomas C. Mountain As the UN famine warning center issues urgent reports that millions of Ethiopians are once again starving in the Somali populated Ogaden the International Committee of the Red Cross publishes a statement that the Ethiopian government has denied the Red Cross an operating permit to…
Libya At Any Cost
Warmongers seek Libyan escalation. Tony Cartalucci. Land Destroyer Report Bangkok, Thailand May 6, 2011 – “It is a test that the international community has to pass. Failure would shake further the faith of the people’s region in the emerging international order and the primacy of international law.” This comes from Brookings Institution’s “Libya’s Test of…
US Murders Children In Effort To Assassinate Muammar Gaddafi
U.S. MURDERS CHILDREN IN BID TO ASSASSINATE GADDAFI Ghoulish Hunt for Qaddafi Defines NATO Tony Cartalucci The very policy of targeted assassinations sidesteps any semblance of law, national or international. By extra-judicially executing people, proper investigations, trials, and justice itself is circumvented, diminished, and ultimately undermined as a whole. The United States in particular has…
Globalization And The War On Libya Series, Parts I – III
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…
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….
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…
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….