by Glenn Greenwald January 14, 2013 As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the…
Category: Libya
The war in Libya growing more illegal by the day
The illegal war in Libya
Corporate Media’s Capital Crimes Against Libya – and Humanity
McKinney Fact-Finders Show Libyan Deaths, Injuries Not “Propaganda”
Apartheid, Sand Nigger Style: The Tunisian Model for a New Colonialism in Libya?
Veterans for Peace: Statement on Military Intervention in Libya
History shows us that this type of intervention rarely goes without blowback and unintended consequences, perhaps with a $1.4 trillion deficit and a domestic budget in crisis our best outcome would be to support peaceful alternatives and not add to the violence of a Libyan civil war at all.
Phyllis Bennis: U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International Coalition Expands Mission to Include Regime Change (Democracy Now! Interview April 19, 2011)
Debra Sweet: This is no "Humanitarian Intervention" in Libya
Flier: Are the U.S. Wars on the Middle East wrong because they cost so much?
Margaret Kimberley: Obama, Libya, and Our Challenge: the True Anti-War Movement Must Reawaken
Revolution Newspaper: True Stories of U.S. "Humanitarian" Intervention
William Blum: Barack "I'd kill for a peace prize" Obama
Jill McLaughlin: Don’t be Confused: U.S. “Intervention” in Libya is Immoral and Illegitimate Too
Sunsara Taylor (video): No Good Can Come from U.S. Led Intervention in Libya!
Kathleen Barry: Libyan Liberation – Is There Another Way?
Middle East Research and Information Project: Of Principle and Peril
Watch: Left Forum Panel on Resisting War with Pardiss Kebriaei, Matthis Chiroux, Eric Stoner and Debra Sweet
Hamid Dabashi: Moral bankruptcy in Libya war
Three Things You Need to Know About the Background for Events in the Middle East and North Africa
From Revolution Newspaper Mass protests and attacks on U.S. embassies took place in more than 20 countries across the Middle East and North Africa last week, including in Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan,…
U.S. Escalates Military Penetration of Africa
By Glen Ford According to the Army Times newspaper, the United States will soon deploy a brigade of about 3,000 troops – “and likely more” – for duty “across the continent” of…
NATO Torture and Abuse in Libya
by Stephen Lendman NATO’s alleged "responsibility to protect" was subterfuge. Months of terror bombings left Libya a charnel house. Africa’s most developed country was ravaged. Tens of thousands were killed, multiples more…
The Fall of the Qaddafi Regime in Libya…and the Hand of the U.S. and NATO
By Larry Everest The 42-year rule of Muammar Qaddafi over the north African country of Libya appears to have come to an end. Anti-Qaddafi fighters poured into the capitol city of Tripoli—Qaddafi’s…
NATO Strike Kills 7 at Libya Hospital
By Jeremy Sapienza and Jason Ditz A NATO airstrike killed seven people in a hospital in Zlitan, western Libya, on Monday, according to locals and government officials. Medical equipment was visible among the…
No-Life Zone: Deeper and Deeper Into the Mire
By Chris Floyd | June 20, 2011 Obviously, there was a typo in the UN resolution approving NATO’s operations in Libya. It was widely reported that the resolution authorized the establishment of…
This is not a humanitarian intervention in Libya
In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war By Glenn Greenwald When the war in Libya began, the U.S. government convinced a large number of war supporters that…
Killing Gaddafi’s Grandbabies
By Glen Ford The ceremonial slaughter of Moammar Gaddafi and his family lurches forward like some savage white cult ritual. Death to the demon and his seed! shout the priests, banshees and…
What “Humanitarian Intervention” Looks Like
By William Blum Iraq: Let us not forget what "humanitarian intervention" looks like. Libya: Let us not be confused as to why Libya alone has been singled out for "humanitarian intervention"….