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Washington’s Puppet Regime in Libya Teeters on the Brink

January 4, 2014 Global AuthorAli Zeidan, Gaddafi, Libya, Obama, Tripoli, US

Libya’s capital city Tripoli was at a virtual standstill yesterday. Most of Tripoli’s businesses, schools and public sector workers went out on strike, demanding that militias leave the city. A 48-hour state of emergency was declared Saturday. Tripoli saw some of the bloodiest fighting since the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, with at least 45 people killed in... Read More

The Great Nothingness of Libya, Two Years After Muammar Gaddafi

January 3, 2014 Global AuthorFrance, Libya, NATO, Obama, UN

The notion of a “Libya” has ceased to have any meaningful practical application. As a concept that either refers to some degree of national unity, an imagined community, sovereignty, or the exercise of authority by a state over the territory within its borders, “Libya” has been driven back to the time when it had yet to become formalized as a... Read More

The Lies Behind The West’s War On Libya

January 1, 2014 Global AuthorGaddafi, Libya, Obama, US

It was Gaddafi’s Libya that offered all of Africa its first revolution in modern times – connecting the entire continent by telephone, television, radio broadcasting and several other technological applications such as telemedicine and distance teaching. And thanks to the WMAX radio bridge, a low cost connection was made available across the continent, including in rural areas. It began in... Read More

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Cynthia McKINNEY raises questions on Killings in Libya

October 10, 2013 Global AuthorCynthia McKINNEY, Egypt, Libya, NATO, Obama, Toubu people, US Special Forces

Every loss of life is tragic and that is why I oppose the current US policy of killing. The US is currently regularly killing people in Asia and in Africa. Taken to its extreme, the Obama Administration even claims authority to kill US citizens on US soil! The unfolding situation in Libya is troubling, not only for the bloodletting and... Read More

Remember Sirte!; Heroism and Apocalypse in the Libyan Desert

October 2, 2012 Global AuthorLibya, NATO, Obama

The month of October 2011 stands as an historical monument to heroism and apocalypse in the Libyan desert as the people of Sirte, hometown to Col. Gaddafi, staged a desperate, doomed fight to protect their families and homes from the might of NATO and its allied bands of Libyan rebels. With history all to often written by the victors, the... Read More

Libya: ‘Anti-Islam’ film sparks riots at US consulates

September 12, 2012 Global AuthorBenghazi, Clinton, Egypt, Libya

Protesters kill US diplomat in Libya; Cairo demonstrators scale embassy walls, burn US flag; US officials condemn violence. CAIRO/BENGHAZI - Protesters in Egypt and Libya attacked US diplomatic missions on Tuesday in a spasm of violence that led to the death of a State Department officer at the consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi after fierce clashes at the... Read More

Kidnapped Libya Olympic chief released

July 22, 2012 Global AuthorLibya, Olympics

The kidnapped president of the Libyan Olympic Committee was freed Sunday, a week after he was seized, the country's state news agency reported. It is not clear who kidnapped Ahmad Nabil al-Alam or why. Security officials are debriefing him to learn more about the identity and motive of his kidnappers, said Hashem Bashar, the head of the interim Supreme Security... Read More

UN Envoy Says Libya Faces Challenges

July 19, 2012 Global AuthorGaddaffi, Libya

NEW YORK — The senior United Nations official in Libya says the organization of the July 7 Libyan election was an extraordinary accomplishment, but the country's new government will face major challenges. The Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General in Libya, Ian Martin, told the U.N. Security Council that when Libya's new National Congress convenes, it will be the country's... Read More

Is Libya the Next Somalia? an African Perspective

July 18, 2012 Global AuthorEritrea, Ethiopia, Gaddafi, Italy, Libya, Panafrica, Somalia, Thomas C. Mountain, Tripoli

Libya seems well on its way to becoming the next Somalia, with much of the country already ruled by tribal/clan based armed militias. As was the case in Somalia, Libya is in the process of separation, with the eastern, oil rich, Cyrenica region having issued a de facto declaration of independence. . Read More

Ongoing atrocities by NATO-installed Libyan regime

February 17, 2012 Global AuthorGaddafi, Libya, Libya Rebels, Misrata, NATO, North africa, War Crimes

The Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) regime installed by the US-NATO intervention in Libya last year is responsible for ongoing atrocities, particularly against black-skinned Libyans, detainees and other alleged supporters of the previous Gaddafi government. . Read More

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