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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

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

Libya:NATO led rebels continue to torture Detainees

February 7, 2012 Global AuthorLibya, NATO, Torture continue

According to a report by Reuters, Detainees from Libya's civil war held by revolutionary brigades supported by NATO continue to be subjected to torture despite efforts by the Nato led rebel government to address the issue, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. . Read More

Gaddafi: Death of an era, dawn of an era

October 21, 2011 Global Authordeath, Gaddafi, Libya, NATO, NTC, war

First accounts are almost never correct, but if the circumstances of Libyan Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi's death prove to be as reported, they will provide yet another, final irony in a life replete with them. The man whose success relied upon a combination of great-power manipulation and the ability to sustain the fantasy that he embodied the aspirations of... Read More

NATO’s War in Libya: Protecting to Kill, Killing to Protect

October 9, 2011 Global AuthorAyça Çubukçu, Libya, NATO

In war, truth is the first casualty. Words of wisdom, gifted to us by Aeschylus. Truer than ever now, two thousand years later, as NATO bombs Libya in the name of `protecting’ its civilians. But isn’t there a paradox here, asks young Turkish academic Ayça Çubukçu. `When “the international community” intervenes militarily in Libya under a cosmopolitan obligation to protect... Read More

Libya News: When western powers support ‘revolution’ in Libya!

October 4, 2011 Global AuthorBritain, France, Libya, Makwaia wa Kuhenga, NATO

News from Libya - The rush by France, Britain and Italy in particular, to get their hands on Libyan oil will soon be too obvious to cover up. The so-called "revolutionaries" are no doubt busy signing deals handing over that previously nationalised resource to the neocolonialists who put them in power - robbing the people of Libya their country's natural... Read More

Venezuela’s Chavez sees cautionary tale in Libya

September 18, 2011 Global AuthorChavez, Gadhafi, Libya, Libya Rebels, NATO, Robert Mugabe

CARACAS, Venezuela (AGV) — When Moammar Gadhafi made his first and only visit to South America in 2009, President Hugo Chavez praised his longtime friend as "the liberator of Libya," talked politics inside his Bedouin tent and presented him with Venezuela's highest award. . Read More

Zimbabwe: African Union’s Decision on Libyan NTC Noble

September 18, 2011 Global AuthorAfrica Union, AU, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in Guinea, Libya, Libya Rebels, NATO, NTC

opinion This refusal opened floodgates of criticism from various corners of the world. Some sections accused the continental body of being out of sync with the so-called winds of democracy that are currently sweeping through the continent.Others opined that the AU's decision was largely informed by some African leaders who, like the beleaguered Brother Leader Muammar Gaddafi, were facing similar... Read More

African patriots learn from Libyan conflict

September 16, 2011 Global AuthorLibya, NATO

{jacomment on}True African patriots must learn a lesson from the Libyan conflict. One is that the African armies must truly prepare to defend Africa militarily; it is a shame that no single NATO jetfighter or missile was shot down during the seven month campaign in Libya. Second is that African governments must never bank their money and other assets in… Read More

Western media biased against Gaddafi

September 15, 2011 Global AuthorAU, Libya, Media Biase against gaddafi, NATO

With the destruction of all means of communications in Libya by NATO, we in the southern hemisphere are left with no other option but to accept the one sided and well orchestrated propaganda about the so-called “atrocities” committed by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during his 42 years of dictatorship. . Read More

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