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  • Obama October Surprise: Blaming al Qaeda
    15 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To keep the "war on terror" alive and continue to instill fear, the Obama administration needs a false flag scenario, like the 9/11 attacks, to justify to the American public for sending thousands of ground troops to invade Africa, starting with Libya.
    Just 2 weeks ago, the White House comes out with the latest counterterrorism strategy to turn inward to monitor the HOMELAND.
    Without giving any credible explanation, John Brennan, White House counterterrorism adviser, stated: "Indeed, (…)

  • "Why Libya? Why Qaddafi?
    14 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Husayn Al-Kurdi
    What are the reasons why the US government and its current President Barack Obama and his cabinet, are so vehement in their insistence that Libyan leader Mu’ammar el-Qaddafi "must go"? Why does the American regime insist on Qaddafi’s removal, to the extent of overseeing repeated bombings of his residences and other places where he may be staying or visiting, following a long series of assassination and coup attempts? Why do they continually reject overtures at mediation, (…)

  • Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
    11 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The "rebels" in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline "Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud."
    The "rebels" now eye the city of Tawergha, 25 miles away, and vow to cleanse it of all Black people once they seize the city. Isn’t this the perfect definition of the term "genocide"?
    According to The Journal’s article, the "rebels" refer to themselves as "the brigade for purging (…)

  • Those Libyan Atrocities: Do They Really Stand Up?
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall Jackson turned to an aide and asked: "Did you ever think, sir, what an opportunity a battlefield affords liars?"
    He meant that in war people, motivated by fear, self-interest or a simple desire to make sense of a confusing and terrifying situation, make things up. And in the midst of a fast-moving conflict it is more than usually (…)

  • Amnesty Questions Claim That Gaddafi Ordered Rape as Weapon of War
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Human rights organizations have cast doubt on claims of mass rape and other abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which have been widely used to justify Nato’s war in Libya.
    Nato leaders, opposition groups and the media have produced a stream of stories since the start of the insurrection on February 15, claiming the Gaddafi regime has ordered mass rapes, used foreign mercenaries and employed helicopters against civilian protesters.
    An investigation by Amnesty (…)

  • The Super Rich Sabotage the Arab Revolutions
    20 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Super Rich Sabotage the Arab Revolutions
    by Shamus Cooke Global Research, June 20, 2011
    With revolutions sweeping the Arab world and bubbling-up across Europe, aging tyrants or discredited governments are doing their best to cling to power. It’s hard to over-exaggerate the importance of these events: the global political and economic status-quo is in deep crisis. If pro-democracy or anti-austerity movements emerge victorious, they’ll have an immediate problem to solve — how to pay (…)

  • Libya: a deafening silence
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    So now we are sending Apache jets to bomb Libyan civilians. An escalation in yet another bloody NATO war. Or, in the words of Colonel Jason Etherington, “it just brings something else to the party.”
    The entire media have fallen into line. This is a war to protect civilians. This is a war to force Gaddafi to leave. As if Western governments, with their proud histories of human rights abuses across the world, have any moral right to make judgements on the government of Libya. (…)

  • NATO official: Gadhafi a legitimate target
    10 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A U.N. resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission told CNN Thursday.
    Asked by CNN whether Gadhafi was being targeted, the NATO official declined to give a direct answer. The resolution applies to Gadhafi because, as head of the military, he is part of the control and command structure and therefore a legitimate target, the official said.
    NATO has been ramping up pressure on the (…)

  • BRICS: Push for Fair World Order
    8 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    BRICS: Push for Fair World Order
    BY INDER MALHOTRA
    DURING its short existence, BRICS, an association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has made an impressive showing. Initially consisting of the first four countries and known as BRIC, the association had held its first summit at Yekaterinburg in Russia in the summer of 2009.
    The next year the second summit took place at Brasilia, and the latest and the third at Sanya in the Chinese island of Hainan. It was here that (…)

  • (videos) The cluster bombing of Misrata: The case against the USA
    7 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The ongoing HRI investigation of the use of cluster munitions in Misrata in April 2011 has found convincing evidence the bombing was committed by US naval forces.
    The bombing of Misrata
    On the 15th April 2011, during the day, sub-munitions of a MAT-120 cluster munition were shown to Human Rights Watch (HRW) and C.J. Chivers, a journalist for the New York Times, in Misrata. On that evening, during ongoing clashes between rebel and loyalist forces, Human Rights Watch workers witnessed 3 or (…)