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By Gareth Peirce, 24 September 2009, Source: www.lrb.co.uk It is, of course, now all about oil. Only a simpleton could believe that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted of responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, was not recently returned to his home in Libya because it suited Britain. The political furore is very obviously contrived, since both the […]
April 2, 2012
By Vijay Prashad, 3 April 2012, Source: atimes.com On February 18, I asked the Indian ambassador to the United Nations, Hardeep Singh Puri, why there was no appetite for a strong UN resolution on Syria. After all, the violence in Syria seemed to have already exceeded that in Libya. If the UN could pass Resolution […]
November 11, 2011
By Hugh Roberts. 17 November 2011. Source: www.lrb.co.uk So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In contrast to the […]
November 5, 2011
By Peter, 20 October 2011, Source: members5.boardhost.com/medialens I expect most ‘papers will feature at least one leader column about the life and death of Muammar Gadaffi, with an overview of the last seven months of conflict in Libya in general. Here are a few of the things you might expect them to mention: The fact that U.N.S.C.R. […]
October 28, 2011
By Horace Campbell, 27 October 2011, Source: pambazuka.org Horace Campbell reconstructs ‘the decision at the highest levels’ to execute Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi and considers ‘the urgency for organising to oppose the remilitarisation of Africa.’ The inability of the Western media and other ‘information’ sources to manage the news of the execution of Colonel Gaddafi was […]
October 18, 2011
A radio interview with Fulvio Grimaldi, director of the documentary “Bloody Spring”, was aired on Dialect Radio on 2 October 2011: Bloody Spring – An Interview with Fulvio Grimaldi on Libya By Dan Glazebrook, 17 October 2011, Source: www.counterpunch.org Fulvio Grimaldi is the legendary Italian (and former BBC) journalist and filmmaker who shot and smuggled out video […]
October 11, 2011
By Tom Gordon, 21 August 2011, Source: www.heraldscotland.com A secret report casting doubt on the conviction of the Lockerbie bomber is to be published under a new law to be unveiled by the Scottish Government next month, when it sets out its legislative programme for Parliament. The bill, to be formally announced on September 7, […]
October 11, 2011
By Frances Thomas, 10 October 2011, Source: scoop.co.nz (This article was first removed from the source site and reappeared slightly edited a day after its first publication.) The situation in Sirte is dire. Six weeks under siege after months of aerial attacks. Children and old people dead of hunger and thirst. Water supply hit. Hospitals without […]
October 5, 2011
By Patrick O’Connor, 4 October 2011, Source: wsws.org The coastal Libyan city of Sirte is under ferocious bombardment from NATO in the air, and militia fighters aligned with the National Transitional Council (NTC) on the ground. Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped in the area, and are being subjected to indiscriminate rocket, mortar and […]
September 2, 2011
The Libyan al-Fateh revolution of 1969 was bloodless and popular. Current pictures from the so-called “February 17th revolution” that flies the same flag as the Idris monarchy. Can you spot the difference? What’s taking place in Libya these days isn’t a revolution, it’s an unpopular insurgency which has already cost 50,000 lives and destroyed much […]
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