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NATO’S Craven Coverup of Its Libyan Bombing

Posted by seumasach on March 17, 2012

Vijay Prashad

Counterpunch

15th March, 2012

Ten days into the uprising in Benghazi, Libya, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council established the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya. The purpose of the Commission was to “investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in Libya.” The broad agenda was to establish the facts of the violations and crimes and to take such actions as to hold the identified perpetrators accountable. On June 15, the Commission presented its first report to the Council. This report was provisional, since the conflict was still ongoing and access to the country was minimal. The June report was no more conclusive than the work of the human rights non-governmental organizations (such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch). In some instances, the work of investigators for these NGOs (such as Donatella Rovera of Amnesty) was of higher quality than that of the Commission.

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Attentats de Madrid : l’hypothèse atlantiste

Posted by seumasach on November 6, 2009

Mathieu Miquel

Voltairenet.org

6th November, 2009

Après les attentats de Madrid (2004) comme après ceux de Londres (2005), la Justice a écarté la thèse Al-Qaida et soutenu que les crimes avaient été perpétrés par des terroristes islamistes autonomes. Une moitié de la presse espagnole a contesté ce verdict et exploré diverses pistes intérieures. Mathieu Miquel, qui avait retracé les événements, l’enquête judiciaire et le procès dans un précédent article, étudie ici l’hypothèse d’une opération des réseaux stay-behind de l’OTAN.

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Greater Albania: Threat of A New US-NATO sponsored Conflict In Europe

Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2009

Rick Rozoff

Global Research

8th October, 2009

Europe may be perched above the precipice of its first armed conflict since NATO’s 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in 1999 and the resultant armed invasion of Macedonia from NATO-occupied Kosovo two years later.

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NATO: the Imperial Pitbull

Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2009

 

Prof. Edward S. Herman

Global Research

23rd January, 2009

One of the deceptive clichés of Western accounts of post World War II history is that NATO was constructed  as a defensive arrangement to block the threat of  a Soviet attack on Western Europe.  This is false. It is true that Western propaganda played up the Soviet menace, but many key U.S. and Western European statesmen recognized that a Soviet invasion was not a real threat.  The Soviet Union had been devastated, and while in possession of a large army it was exhausted and needed time for recuperation. The United States was riding high, the war had revitalized its economy, it suffered no war damage, and it had the atomic bomb in its arsenal, which it had displayed to  the Soviet Union by killing a quarter of  a million Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hitting the Soviet Union before it recovered or had atomic weapons was discussed in Washington, even if rejected in favor of “containment,”  economic warfare, and other forms of  destabilization. NSC 68, dated April 1950, while decrying the great Soviet menace, explicitly called for a program of destabilization aimed at regime change in that country, finally achieved in 1991.

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