Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report | February 18, 2015 As U.S. imperialism loses its capacity to compete outside the military sphere, its foreign policy options shrink, accordingly. “Since the U.S. is superior to the rest of the world ONLY in military terms, Washington finds its ultimate advantage in turning the whole world into a battlefield.”…
World Bulletin | February 18, 2015 Possible alliances between local militias and ISIS militants Italy called on Wednesday for urgent international action to halt Libya’s slide into chaos, and pledged it was ready to help monitor a ceasefire and train local armed forces. The U.N. Security Council is due to meet later on Wednesday…
Ted Rall | 17 Feb 2015 Barack Obama destroyed Libya. What he did to Libya is as bad as what Bush did to Iraq and Afghanistan. He doesn’t deserve a historical pass. When Obama took office in 2009, Libya was under the clutches of longtime dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. But things were looking up. Bush…
Matt Naham | Rare | February 12, 2015 Clinton’s intervention in Libya and the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi created space for ISIS jihadists Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday morning that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deserves a lot of blame for instability in the Middle East and the rising numbers of Islamic State…
Jerome Corsi | WND | 3 Feb 2015 EW YORK – A former Republican congressman provided details of his efforts in 2011 to negotiate with Moammar Gadhafi an offer to step down as president of Libya in an effort to prevent the Libyan war. “There was no doubt Gadhafi wanted to abdicate,” said Curt Weldon of…
Mark Taliano | Global Research | January 26, 2015 “Human rights” or “democracy” have nothing to do with current wars of conquest except that these words are used as cover to hide institutionalized mass murder and theft. In fact, human rights and democracy are usually the first casualties of any invasion. The “West”, however, understands the value of…
Chris Stephen | The Guardian | 6 Dec 2014 It is a warm October evening in Derna, a small town on Libya’s north east coast, 450 miles from the capital, Tripoli. The main square is packed with young men, brought by a summons from the town’s self-proclaimed emir to swear allegiance to a newly formed…
By Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report | November 19, 2014 The United States has attempted to claim that the only way to stop the so-called “Islamic State” in Syria and Iraq is to first remove the government in Syria. Complicating this plan are developments in Libya, benefactor of NATO’s last successful regime change campaign. In 2011,…
By Dan Glazebrook | Middle East Eye | 10 Nov 2014 Three years ago, in late October 2011, the world witnessed the final defeat of the Libyan Jamahiriya – the name by which the Libyan state was known until overthrown in 2011, meaning literally the “state of the masses” – in the face of a…
By Garikai Chengu | Global Research | October 19, 2014 This week marks the three-year anniversary of the Western-backed assassination of Libya’s former president, Muammar Gaddafi, and the fall of one of Africa’s greatest nations. In 1967 Colonel Gaddafi inherited one of the poorest nations in Africa; however, by the time he was assassinated, Gaddafi had…