Tag Archives: Libya
Jonathan S. Landay>Obama’s drone war kills ‘others,’ not just al Qaida leaders
“The United States has gone far beyond what the U.S. public – and perhaps even Congress – understands the government has been doing and claiming they have a legal right to do.” Mary Ellen O’Connell, Notre Dame Law Professor Pakistani soldiers stand guard at the Shamsi Airbase located some 320 kilometers southwest of Quetta in […]
Stephen Gowans> Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa
Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa The next time that empire comes calling in the name of human rights, please be found standing idly by By Stephen Gowans what’s left Posted in Africa, Libya by what’s left on November 9, 2012 Maximilian C. Forte’s new book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (released November 20) […]
Chomsky: America Acts Like It Owns the World, While Endangering the Planet from Nuclear War and Climate Change
Chomsky: America Acts Like It Owns the World, While Endangering the Planet from Nuclear War and Climate Change Inability to face the truth about ourselves in this country is all too common a feature across American society. By Noam Chomsky October 26, 2012 Democracy Now via AlterNet.org Note: In a recent speech, Professor Chomsky examined topics largely ignored […]
Nicolas J.S. Davies> Armed Rebels and Middle-Eastern Power Plays: How the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria
Armed Rebels and Middle-Eastern Power Plays: How the U.S. Is Helping to Kill Peace in Syria “But one of the basic questions that historians will have to answer about the Arab Spring is this: why did revolutions against Western puppets in the Arab world remain mainly nonviolent, while those against independent governments turned into bloody […]
Video> Kofi Annan: Syria Military Intervention Won’t Work
Kofi Annan: Syria Military Intervention Won’t Work 10/20/12 03:30 PM ET EDT Huffington Post Video title: Kofi Annan Condemns Deadly Blasts in Syria Created by: IBTimesTV Click here to see the video. WASHINGTON — Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is warning that military intervention in Syria by the major powers won’t work. In comments to be […]
Obama’s Drone Dilemma The killings probably aren’t legal—not that they’ll stop.
Obama’s Drone Dilemma The killings probably aren’t legal—not that they’ll stop. It is curious that there is not a global outcry about the illegality of the wars in Pakistan or Libya, as there was about the illegality of the recent war in Iraq . . . By Eric Posner|Posted Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 Slate.com Pakistani security […]
Deepa Kumar> Anti-American Protests: Cutting Through Media Propaganda
Anti-American Protests: Cutting Through Media Propaganda By Deepa Kumar Sunday, September 16, 2012 Deepa Kumar’s ZSpace Page Protests that began outside US diplomatic institutions over the vile and racist film “Innocence of Muslims” in Egypt and Libya have spread across the world from Bangladesh and India to Iran, Iraq and Morocco. The mainstream media in the […]
Glenn Greenwald> The Tragic Consulate Killings in Libya and America’s Hierarchy of Human Life
The Tragic Consulate Killings in Libya and America’s Hierarchy of Human Life The murder of American staff over a hate film is an unmitigated wrong. But so are deaths caused by the US that go unremarked by Glenn Greenwald Published on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 by The Guardian Protesters attacked the US consulate in Bengazi, Libya on Tuesday night and killed […]
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy Posted by John Feffer September 6, 2012 TomDispatch.com Think back to the election of 2008. Do you remember how one candidate had it easy? He had eight years of abject failure to run against. Eight years that included the launching of two dismal wars, the creation of […]
Diana Johnstone> The Decline of Political Protest> Pussy Riot and Amnesty International
The Decline of Political Protest> Pussy Riot and Amnesty International What is most notable about this attention, and the attention of the Western media in general, is its tone. The tone is by no means a diplomatic appeal intended to persuade authorities to free the women in question. Rather, it is a tone of provocation. by DIANA […]
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