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  • Aircraft carrier left us to die, say migrants
    10 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised
    Dozens of African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean after a number of European military units apparently ignored their cries for help, the Guardian has learned. Two of the nine survivors claim this included a Nato ship.
    A boat carrying 72 passengers, including several women, young children and political refugees, ran into trouble in late March after leaving Tripoli for (…)

  • Libyan migrants’ boat deaths to be investigated by Council of Europe
    10 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Human rights body demands inquiry into failure of European military units to save 61 migrants on boat fleeing Libya
    Europe’s paramount human rights body, the Council of Europe, has called for an inquiry into the deaths of 61 migrants in the Mediterranean, claiming an apparent failure of military units to rescue them marked a "dark day" for the continent.
    Mevlüt Çavusoglu, president of the council’s parliamentary assembly, demanded an "immediate and comprehensive inquiry" into the fate of (…)

  • WHY WE SAY STOP BOMBING LIBYA NOW
    20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    A packed special meeting of the Stop the War national steering committee last Saturday brought delegates from across the country and from affiliated organisations to discuss the issues arising from the attack on Libya and wider issues of the "war on terror".
    The statement last week signed by Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy made it clear that this is now a war of regime-change, which is neither sanctioned by the UN resolution nor legal under international law.
    How the (…)

  • If Cairo Came to Kabul
    20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Before Tahrir Square happened almost nobody predicted that President Hosni Mubarak would be forced out of office by a movement that didn’t pick up a gun. Had President Barack Obama expected that outcome, he might have publicly backed Mubarak’s departure before, rather than after, Mubarak stepped down.
    Obama can be seen as overcompensating for that performance in Libya, but there he is placing faith in weapons. Anybody can do that. Egypt still has a long way to go on its path to a just (…)

  • STOP THE BOMBING OF LIBYA NOW: PROTEST 19 APRIL
    18 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Britain France and the US have now come clean. The article signed
    by Cameron, Sarkozy and Obama, and published today in Washington,
    Paris and London, makes clear the war on Libya is not about
    protecting civilians but about regime change. Having ignored
    peace moves from the African Union, NATO is now set on escalating
    the bombing.
    The humanitarian spin they are putting on the operation is
    exposed by the fact that the Western governments continue to
    support brutal (…)

  • The Great Libyan Distraction
    11 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The entire Libyan conflict of the last month – the civil war in Libya, the U.S.-led military action against Gaddafi – is neither about humanitarian intervention nor about the immediate supply of world oil. It is in fact one big distraction – a deliberate distraction – from the principal political struggle in the Arab world. There is one thing on which Gaddafi and Western leaders of all political views are in total accord. They all want to slow down, channel, co-opt, limit the second Arab (…)

  • SOS IVORY COAST
    11 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    INHOFE FACT CHECK ON FRENCH EMBASSY “FACT SHEET” from the French Ambassador, dated April 6, 2011
    April 7, 2011
    French say: Fact Sheet on Côte d’Ivoire(April 6, 2011)“After many delays, including on the part of then-President Laurent Gbagbo, a presidential election was held in Côte d’Ivoire last fall. Since then, its results have been certified by the local monitoring mission and acknowledged by the international community, including the United States, the European Union (EU), the (…)

  • Egyptians Marching To Gaza Border!
    6 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Press TV
    Hundreds of Egyptians are marching to the country’s border with the Gaza Strip to demand that it be opened. They are currently in Al Arish, about 50 kilometres from Rafah.
    Press TV correspondent Roshan Muhammed Salihis is also in Al Arish, where he spoke to several of the Egyptian activists who told him they plan to hold a demonstration on the border on Sunday, (March 6) with the aim of entering the besieged territory.
    Another member of the Tahrir4Gaza campaign told Press TV: (…)

  • Petroleum and Empire in North Africa
    4 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Keith Harmon Snow
    "Are events unfolding in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt more about petro-terrorism or about freedom and democracy? How much oil is there in North Africa? Who is in control of that oil? What is the relationship between the West and Muammar Gaddafi?
    People wishing to support the legitimate grievances and actions for freedom and truth in Libya should challenge the Western terrorist apparatus out of Washington DC, Tel Aviv, Brussels, London and Ottawa...." (…)

  • Fidel Castro’s Reflections: NATO’s Inevitable War
    4 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cuban Revolution leader said that in contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort.
    NATO’S INEVITABLE WAR
    In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the (…)