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Our Libya intervention is (mainly) about one short word starting with o
Hard to disagree with most of what George Galloway says on Sky News:
Any thoughts about what our new war against Libya is really supposed to achieve?
Real democracies function properly when the most serious issues are debated fully and legally. That’s not what has happened with the US and Libya. Andrew Sullivan offers the insights: “In the case of Libya, they just threw out their playbook. The fact that Obama pivoted on a dime shows that the White House is flying…
Libya would not be “assisted” if major export was lettuce
Here’s how the New York Times explains the role of the White House in backing a no-fly zone over Libya. Cute how the paper completely ignores all wider context for intervention; energy resources and oil in the country. All completely irrelevant, of course: In a Paris hotel room on Tuesday night, Secretary of State Hillary…
Who has really thought through the no-fly zone over Libya?
So the West is about to launch another war, this time against Libya. Who exactly is the West backing? Who are the rebels? What do they represent? Are we providing arms to groups who may turn against the Libyan people? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Egypt is sending arms to the Libyan rebels,…
Libyan resistance dying for backing from Israel-based reporter
Here’s the way not to report from a war-zone. Western journalist parachutes into a country and starts condemning the actions of the Libyan rebels, offering advice how to better fight a war. Because a Murdoch hack who lives a comfortable middle class existence in Israel knows so much about winning wars against dictators. John Lyons…
Remembering a brave victim of Gaddafi’s thugs
The murder of Al-Jazeera cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber – killed after a reporting team for the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by government forces near the town of Benghazi – has been mourned in Libya itself. A crowd gathered in the city’s main square to honor al-Jaber, a Qatari national. They waved Qatari flags and…
West so keen to still be a colonial power in Arab world
Patrick Cockburn on the Western love affair with picking compliant leaders in places we should simply step aside: There is something frivolous and absurd about France’s sudden recognition of the Libyan rebel leadership in Benghazi as a sort of quasi-government. Presumably it’s intended to give the impression Nicolas Sarkozy has a grip on events, it…
The Blair/Gaddafi relationship that reeked of death and torture
As Tony Blair prepares to visit Australia to share his invaluable lessons in killing Arabs and launching illegal wars – organised by one of the country’s largest Jewish families, the Pratts, who clearly love Blair for backing Israeli apartheid – it’s worth recalling what the former British Prime Minister has done. Here’s Gareth Pierce in…
Topple the Tyrants sends message to Saif Gaddafi
I salute this form of civil disobedience, public protest and act of solidarity with rebelling Libyans: It may be furnished, according to its new occupants, just as you would expect “when you have spent …£10m of blood money on a house”, but judging by the appearance mid-afternoon of a masked man in camouflage gear carrying…