Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2011
Anti-war & Black activists unite against Libya war: Cynthia McKinney Tour now to 19 cities
5th August, 2011
A continuing mobilization against the U.S. war on Libya has taken place in cities across the country. Packed, standing room only audiences at major meetings have heard former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney report on her June fact-finding trip to Libya with the Dignity delegation. In every meeting the message rings out: Stop the U.S./NATO bombing of Libya.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2011
How long is the world going to stand back looking on as NATO does its bloody work? Let’s join Roland Dumas in calling for NATO and the ringleaders amongst the western leaders to be before a court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
4th August, 2011
A mother and her two children have been killed by a NATO airstrike in the Libyan coastal town of Zliten, a Libyan official says.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2011
NATO’s “strategic blunder”
Cailean Bochanan
4th August, 2011
“Strategic blunder”: this is how Denis MacShane, Labour MP and ardent neo-con of the “Scoop” Jackson school correctly characterizes NATO’s Libya fiasco. This is not just a stupid adventure gone wrong, it is the collapse of grand strategy for the Middle East and Africa whose contours, to me, at least, are only now becoming clear.
Of course, whereas a successful strategy soon reveals its goals and the motives and thinking behind it, a failed one tends to be obscured by the mess it has left. Even more is it obscured by the remorseless workings of the law of unintended consequences. Who could have recognised the workings of a plan which strengthened the rule of two leading bogeymen of the West, Gaddafi and Assad; which strengthened democracy and sovereignty rather than further fragmenting the region’s nations: which strengthened tolerance in the face of the CIA’s obscurantists: which strengthened the hand of Iran and, more especially, Russia: which left Israel exposed and which threatens to bring revolution to the heart of the empire’s regional policemen Saudi Arabia and Bahrain? But such is indeed the outcome of NATO’s misguided and plainly criminal enterprise.
The idea, supposedly being aired in Libya, that the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia were a necessary prelude to the assault on Libya in that they removed leaders sympathetic to Gaddafi, cannot be dismissed. The CIA could then very well have had a hand in starting those revolts believing that any revolutionary process could be derailed by giving support to the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood who also seem to be at the heart of the armed struggle against Assad. I initially dismissed this idea since I didn’t see how it would work: I still don’t but perhaps this only goes to show just how much the CIA has lost it’s touch. But, as Thierry Meyssan has pointed out, the whole plan was posited on simultaneous displays of regime change in Libya and Syria. Had that worked out then perhaps the rest of the pieces would have fallen into place.
That has most decisively not worked out. In Libya what looks like the collapse of the TNC has been received with the most eerie silence apart from a few interventionist stalwarts lamenting the ineptitude of it all. In Syria, Russia has not deceived this time by failing to check the empire in the Security Council and without western intervention the West’s forces on the ground look too weak.
This can and must become a turning point in West’s post-Soviet NATO rampage. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the West won the ultimate ideological victory. To borrow from Baudelaire’s witticism, the devil, western imperialism, triumphed by managing to convince the world that he no longer existed. From then on he appeared in humanitarian guise only: NATO was almost a charity although unable to conceal the cloven-hoof of its ever burgeoning arsenal. But those, it was claimed, were only to help his friends in the military-industrial complex and by no means for actual use. Endlessly intervening on behalf of the oppressed you could almost have said that he was doing God’s work and some, indeed, did say that.
That particular charade must now be exposed. A five year old could successfully identify the Evil One and if a chorus of thousands continue to sing his praises it only shows how many must go down with NATO.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2011
Extract from “NATO war crimes, the murder of journalists”
Lisa Karpova
3rd August, 2011
Speaking for Libya’s 2000 tribes, the Council issued a Proclamation signed by scores of tribal leaders from eastern Libya.
“By this letter to the extraordinary African Summit, convening in Addis Ababa, the notables of the Eastern tribes of the Great Jamahiriya confirm their complete rejection of what is called the Transitional Council in Benghazi which hasn’t been nominated nor elected by Tribal …representatives but rather imposed by NATO.”
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2011
2nd August, 2011
Click on link above to use google translate
Es el canto del cisne del CNT y la probable retirada de la OTAN con el rabo entre las piernas…
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2011
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Global Research
1st August, 2011.
TRIPOLI.The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has seen no end to fighting inside Libya. NATO has intensified its bombardment of Tripoli and other major cities. Tens of thousands of fliers have been dropped by NATO from the skies asking the Libyan military to surrender.
The social momentum in Libya against NATO and its illegitimate Transitional Council has been picking up speed. Mass opposition to the rebels is building up in rebels’ stronghold Benghazi
Following the assassination of General Abdel Fattah Al-Younes, the commander of the Transitional Council’s armed forces, further divisions within the rebellion have unfolded; the tide has changed dramatically in Benghazi.
The Obeide tribe, which is the tribe of General Younes, has taken arms against the Transitional Council. Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the chairman of the Transitional Council, faced gunfire in his hotel where he held a press conference announcing the death of General Al-Younes. Jalil claimed that the body was lost and made many contradictory statements. He stated that Al-Younes had been arrested for questioning and then was attacked and shot. In reality he was murdered by Transitional Council members tied directly to Washington. His son Ashraf Al-Younes has demanded that the legitimate government in Tripoli bring stability to Benghazi.
There are unconfirmed reports that the chairman of the Transitional Council, Mahmoud Jibril, has fled to Egypt to seek the protection of Field Marshal Tantawi and the Egyptian military junta.
At this point, revolts have broken out against the Transitional Council in cities until their control. Benghazi, Darnah, and Tobruk have all witnessed a social uprising of the local population against NATO and the armed gangs of the Transitional Council.
On July 31 clansmen from Warfallah joined the revolt against the Transitional Council in Benghazi. Some of them took up arms and others demonstrated demanding an end to the illegitimate rule of the Transitional Council. NATO helicopters intervened, directly targeting the demonstrators. According to reports, about 160 Warfallah clansmen were killed at a peaceful indoor gathering focusing on political actions and group efforts to oust the Transitional Council. The exact figures of those killed by NATO inside Benghazi are unconfirmed. Their bodies were not returned. They are believed to have been buried in unmarked mass graves.
Qatari troops are also on the ground and there is visual confirmation of Qatari armored vehicles inside Benghazi. A Qatari armored vehicle has also been caught on tape in Benghazi fighting against Libyans trying to liberate the city from NATO and TC armed gangs.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya reporting from Tripoli is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2011
End game for Benghazi rebels as Libyan tribes prepare to weigh in?
Franklin Lamb
2nd August, 2011
On July 30, the day before this 97.5 per cent Muslim country began the holy month of Ramadan, NATO spokesperson Roland Lavoie has been lamely attempting to explain to the press at the Rexis Hotel and internationally, why NATO was forced to bomb three Tripoli TV towers at the Libyan Broadcasting Authority, killing three journalists/technicians and wounding 15 others. Like most people currently in central Tripoli, this observer was awakened at 1:50 a.m. by the first of a series of nine blasts, three of which I watched from my balcony as they happened, and which seemed to be about 800 yards away as I saw one TV tower being blown apart. On the four lanes’ divided highway adjacent to my hotel and below my balcony, that runs along the sea front, I could see two cars frantically swerving left and right as they sped along, presumably trying to avoid a NATO rocket, fearing they themselves might be targeted.
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2011
Thierry Meyssan
2nd August, 2011
Muslims have been encouraged to cease hostilities during the month of Ramadan. Nothing significant should be expected to happen in Libya at the military level until August 28. But who benefits from the respite?
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Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2011
Major developments are taking place in Benghazi around which there is a news blackout. NATO, of course, know what they’re involved in there but aren’t telling us.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
2nd August, 2011
How odd. Western news agencies have gone quiet about Libya. Not a peep! You could hear a pin drop. Is something going on? Rather than copy and paste lies and hype and misquotations of the truth let us see what is really going on using real sources from within Libya itself. For those wannabe hacks who have tried to get my sources, find your own!
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In These New Times 