NATO kill hundreds overnight in Sirte
Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2011
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Telesur journalist: 50,000 killed in Libya
Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2011
Libya 360 is an excellent source of information on the latest developments in Libya
18th september, 2011
This week Telesur welcomed home a news team just back from covering NATO’s war on Libya from that nation’s capital, Tripoli. On arrival at Venezuela’s Maiquetia International Airport, the journalists denounced the ongoing ‘fabrication of lies’ by mainstream media outlets and accused the international press of ‘producing the arguments needed for a continuation of the war’. The Libyan people ‘have been invaded by destruction, war, suffering and death, when the solution to the conflict could have been secured by peaceful means’, affirmed Telesur journalist Rolando Segura, who spent the last four months in Libya alongside cameraman Henry Pillajo.
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NATO air strikes kills over 700 in Sirte, 354 overnight
Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2011
Barry Malone
18th September, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi’s spokesman told Reuters on Saturday that NATO air strikes on Sirte overnight had hit a residential building and a hotel, killing 354 people.
NATO comment was not immediately available.
Moussa Ibrahim, in a call from a satellite phone to Reuters office in Tunis, said: “NATO attacked the city of Sirte last night with more than 30 rockets directed at the city’s main hotel and the Tamin building, which consists of more than 90 residential flats.
“The result is more than 354 dead and 89 still missing and almost 700 injured in one night.”
Ibrahim said Gaddafi was personally directing loyalist fighters who are holding back provisional government forces at his remaining strongholds in Libya.
“He is leading all aspects of this struggle. He is talking to the people, he is lecturing, he is discussing, he is looking after all matters of the resistance,” he said.
Ibrahim said Gaddafi was in Libya and confident of victory.
“We will be able to continue this fight and we have enough arms for months and months to come,” he said.
“In the last 17 days more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes,” he said.
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Resurgent European imperialism and the Global South
Posted by seumasach on September 17, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
17th September, 2011
The assault on Libya marks a new imperialist offensive led by NATO which threatens grave consequences for humanity if unchecked. A resurgent, French, British and even Turkish imperialism provide a distinctly 19th century air to proceedings. In contrast to 2003 and the Iraq War there has been no opposition worth talking about from the left who have now rallied around the left-liberal paradigm as being worthy of universal enforcement. The left are onboard for the new imperialism and they provide its ideological backbone. To paraphrase one of their old songs ” the Internationale unites the white race’.
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Ghana joins Nigeria on Libya and is obeisant to NATO
Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2011
Prince Akyeampong
15th September, 2011
After what recently happened in Libya, one is apt to wonder what democracy really stands for. If democracy is the keyword used to justify the destruction of human lives and property, then God help us all!
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Abayomi Azikwe on the neo-colonial takeover by NATO
Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2011
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Killing the Bad Guys
Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
15th September, 2011
To kill or not to kill?- that is the question. And the answer is…. to kill. Kill the bad guys! Like we killed Saddam because he was a dictator and we killed Bin Laden even though he was already dead. As we have killed Gaddafi’s son Khamis- five times in all. If only we could kill Gaddafi so that we could resolve things- no man, no problem, as Stalin used to say. Kill the bad guys who made us bomb their country. Imagine what kind of person would do that- ruin their own country because they wouldn’t take us at our word to step down or suffer the consequences.
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Libye – Sarkozy à Tripoli: les raisons d’un voyage controversé
Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2011
15th September, 2011
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Alors que rien ne va plus dans les faits avec l’ONU et les autres membres de l’OTAN, le président français Nicolas Sarkozy se rendra donc en Libye, tôt ce matin. Le périple présidentiel ne commencera pas dans la capitale des renégats, à Benghazi, mais à Tripoli où, il ne restera que deux heures maximum, avant d’aller à Benghazi. A Benghazi, 60 policiers français sont arrivés dès hier soir, et 100 autres, à Tripoli. Toujours à Tripoli, selon nos informations, un détachement de 100 gendarmes du Raid est déjà en place. Ce qui fait donc 260 policiers et gendarmes en Libye, contrairement à ce qu’on nous annonce…
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Counter-Offensive Targets One of Libya’s Few Undamaged Refineries
Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2011
Jason Ditz
12th September, 2011
In the first major regime counter-offensive in over a week, forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi liberated a rebel-held oil refinery in Ras Lanuf today, one of the few refineries which escaped NATO bombardment during the civil war.
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BRICS may help Europe out
Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2011
13th September, 2011
The BRICS group of emerging markets may ramp up holdings of euro-denominated bonds in an effort to help European countries stuck in a sovereign debt crisis, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed official.
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Cameron the chancer
Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
14th September, 2011
You probably didn’t know that David Cameron was a gambling man. What, you ask; has he been buying up credit default swaps on a Greek default? Has he placed his bets on the Euro being as worthless as the doomed dollar/pound tandem? That would be reckless even with City hedge funds, the rating agencies and the world’s media on your side. No, he has recklessly put his money on pulling off a return to 19th century imperialism in a new dash for Africa. He has decided to spice up the tired and all to predictable transatlantic relationship with a menage-a-trois, a fling with the flashy, French fantasist, Sarkozy.
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