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Slave markets in ‘liberated’ Libya and the silence of the humanitarian hawks

NOVANEWS By Neil Clark  | RT  The reports that black Africans are being sold at slave markets in ‘liberated’ Libya for as little as $400 is a terrible indictment of the so-called ‘humanitarian intervention’ carried out by NATO to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. In March 2011 virtue-signaling Western ‘liberal’ hipsters teamed up with hardcore neocon warmongers to demand action to ‘save’ the Libyan people from the ‘despotic’ leader who had ruled the country since the late 1960s. “Something has to be done!” they cried in unison. Something was done. Libya was transformed by NATO from the country with the highest Human Development Index in the whole of Africa in 2009 into a lawless hell-hole, with rival governments, warlords and terror groups fighting for control of the cou...
Iraq, Libya, Middle East, Syria

Syrian War Report – December 1, 2017: ISIS Plans To Move Its Caliphate To Libya

NOVANEWS By: Media Partner - SouthFront …from SouthFront The elite Tiger Forces have reportedly redeployed most of its units from the province of Deir Ezzor to northeastern Hama and southern Aleppo to support the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in its clashes against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) in the area. Pro—government sources speculate that this is a sign of the upcoming large-scale advance towards the Abu al-Duhur Airbase. Members of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have successfully counter-attacked against the SAA and entered the villages of Ramlah and Abisan. Two SAA soldiers were reportedly captured by militants. On November 30, Ahrar al-Sham said that its members have repelled an SAA attack on its positions in the Armored Vehicl...
Libya

Slave Markets in ‘Liberated’ Libya and the Silence of the Humanitarian Hawks

NOVANEWS By Neil Clark RT Op-Edge The reports that black Africans are being sold at slave markets in ‘liberated’ Libya for as little as $400 is a terrible indictment of the so-called ‘humanitarian intervention’ carried out by NATO to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. In March 2011 virtue-signaling Western ‘liberal’ hipsters teamed up with hardcore neocon warmongers to demand action to ‘save’ the Libyan people from the ‘despotic’ leader who had ruled the country since the late 1960s. “Something has to be done!” they cried in unison. Something was done. Libya was transformed by NATO from the country with the highest Human Development Index in the whole of Africa in 2009 into a lawless hell-hole, with rival governments, warlords and terror groups fighting for c...
Libya, Middle East

ISIS Plans to Move Its ‘Caliphate’ to Libya? ‘Video’

NOVANEWS ISIS Plans to Move Its ‘Caliphate’ to Libya? Relocate Terrorists to Africa, Asia? By: South Front The elite Tiger Forces have reportedly redeployed most of its units from the province of Deir Ezzor to northeastern Hama and southern Aleppo to support the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in its clashes against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) in the area. Pro—government sources speculate that this is a sign of the upcoming large-scale advance towards the Abu al-Duhur Airbase. Members of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have successfully counter-attacked against the SAA and entered the villages of Ramlah and Abisan. Two SAA soldiers were reportedly captured by militants. On November 30, Ahrar al-Sham said that its members have repelled an SAA...
Libya

The Imperialist Destruction of Libya. Impasse at the Fifth European Union-Africa Summit

NOVANEWS 2011 Counter-revolution against Gaddafi underlines the reemergence of enslavement and genocide By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research Abidjan, Ivory Coast is the scene of the annual European Union-Africa Summit where the centuries-long crises of relations between the two continents has reached a tipping point with the escalation of human trafficking in Libya stemming directly from the Pentagon-NATO destruction of the North African state in 2011. In this year’s gathering, the fifth of such meetings, the African Union (AU) has gained official recognition as a continental body. In previous summits due to the desire by the EU to exclude certain states, the participation of African governments was based on an invitation-only basis. However, beginning on November 29, both regio...
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Media Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya

NOVANEWS By Ben Norton FAIR Twenty-first century slave markets. Human beings sold for a few hundred dollars. Massive protests throughout the world. The American and British media have awakened to the grim reality in Libya, where African refugees are for sale in open-air slave markets. Yet a crucial detail in this scandal has been downplayed or even ignored in many corporate media reports: the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in bringing slavery to the North African nation. In March 2011, NATO launched a war in Libya expressly aimed at toppling the government of longtime leader Muammar Qadhafi. The US and its allies flew some 26,000 sorties over Libya and launched hundreds of cruise missiles, destroying the government’s ability to resist rebel forces. US President...
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Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Don’t Want You to Know

NOVANEWS By Global Research News Urban Times    This article was first published by Global Research in November 2014. Today Libya as a Nation State has been destroyed by US-NATO. What do you think of when you hear the name Colonel Gaddafi? Tyrant? Dictator? Terrorist? Well, a national citizen of Libya may disagree but we want you to decide. For 41 years until his demise in October 2011, Muammar Gaddafi did some truly amazing things for his country and repeatedly tried to unite and empower the whole of Africa. So despite what you’ve heard on the radio, seen in the media or on the TV, Gaddafi did some powerful things that are not characteristic of a “vicious dictator” as portrayed by the western media. Here are ten things Gaddafi did for Libya that you may not know about… 1....
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CNN Breaks Story on Slave Trade in Libya; French Government Voices Concern for African Migrants

NOVANEWS By: Gerald A. Perreira Countercurrents The world we find ourselves in is complex and full of contradictions. It is easy to fall for rudimentary textbook propaganda based on simplistic dichotomies, such as ‘the good guys versus the bad guys’. If we are not aware of the complexities and nuances facing us, we can fall for this type of propaganda, whose sole aim is to keep us apart and destroy any type of unity that could strengthen our ability to defeat the enemy. When examining and assessing the latest information fed to us by one of imperialism’s mouthpieces, CNN, there are important things for us, as revolutionary Pan-Africanists, to keep in mind. The first thing to note is the clear hypocrisy and insincerity which is nowhere more stark than CNN’s recent expose of “Libya...
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Libya: A New False Dawn

NOVANEWS By: Richard Galustian Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity   Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. That quote is worth bearing in mind when assessing the chances of the latest United Nations peace plan for Libya. Every autumn, along with the falling leaves, comes a new UN plan for ending Libya’s civil war, now into its fourth year. Like the plans before it, the current version of the United Nations Support Mission for Libya has superficial attractions. It proposes a new slimmed-down version of the government the UN itself installed in Tripoli two years ago, cutting the number of its presidency from nine members to three, one chosen from each of the country’s three...
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Libya’s sub-Saharan “slave market” footage sparks global outrage

NOVANEWS By: 5 Pillars There has been global outrage after the CNN released a shocking video showing dozens of sub-Saharan migrants being sold like commodities. The footage shows young boys and men from Niger and other sub-Saharan countries being sold to buyers as farm workers for about $400 (£300) at undisclosed locations in Libya. The African Union (AU) has expressed outrage after the footage, demanding prosecutions over a “despicable” trade “from another era”. The chairman of the AU, President Alpha Conde of Guinea, said: “These modern slavery practices must end and the African Union will use all the tools at its disposal.” Libya has launched an investigation into the practice, the CNN reported on Friday. “A high-level committee has been convened encompassing representative...