Libya Archives - Page 17 of 111

28Dec

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Libya

GADDAFI: A Psychological Profile of Man, Myth & Reality

NOVANEWS He walked up to the podium to address the UN General Assembly. All eyes in the chamber were on the strange, eccentric figure, whose invitation to New York had been the subject of great controversy and coverage. Staring out at all the delegations of world government, he acted out ripping up the UN Charter, calling it “worthless”. He proceeded to condemn the UN for its failure to prevent “65 wars since 1945”, and to rally against the dictatorial control of the Security’s Council’s five permanent members and the domination of “the Super-powers”. “How can we be happy about global peace and security if the whole world is controlled only by five countries?” he complained. Some delegations walked out. Others looked embarrassed or uncomfortable. The year was 2009 and the speaker was Mu...

20Dec

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Libya, Syria

A Meditation on Aleppo, Syria, Libya & the Importance of Bashar Assad’s Survival

NOVANEWS It is difficult to look at the situation in Aleppo and not see it in a broader context. Not only of Syria, but of Libya, the past several years, and of the entire region. And of international affairs in general. We probably shouldn’t; we should probably view different situations entirely in their own light. But I can’t help but look at Aleppo – both the fall of Aleppo to rebel militias and foreign-backed mercenaries and now the liberation or reclamation of Aleppo by Syrian government forces – and see it as a point on a timeline that goes all the way back to Benghazi, Tripoli, Sirte and elsewhere. In some ways, that connection is obvious: as I’ve said before, I always saw the Libyan and Syrian nightmares as one event, albeit occurring in two different countries. And, for exampl...

21Nov

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Saudi Zio-Wahhabi terrorists target children in Benghazi

NOVANEWS Islamist terrorists target children in Benghazi while the West and UN look on By Nureddin Sabir Editor, Redress Information & Analysis Islamist terrorists have committed yet another heinous crime in Benghazi, Libya’s second city. On 21 November they detonated a car bomb in one of the city’s busiest streets near the main, Al-Jalaa hospital. Video Player The explosion took place at 1:30pm, exactly the time when children were returning home from school. At least three children were killed and 20 other people injured. Aftermath of the Islamist car bomb blast in Benghazi, 21 November 2016 A series of recent car bombings in the city had been claimed by the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group and the so-called Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council (BRSC). The ...

28Oct

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GADDAFI, Odd & Funny Facts: From Piccadilly Circus to Secret Pen-Pals

NOVANEWS As a few days ago marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of Muammar Gaddafi,I decided to mark it with a more low-key, fun-ish look back at Libya’s former national figurehead. A more serious piece on the life and character of one of the most controversial world figures of the 20th century will follow in a few days, which I’d been working on for some time but hadn’t been able to finish in time. In the meantime it occurs to me that while people mostly write very serious things – good or bad – about Gaddafi and his era, and much of it centers unfortunately on his brutal death and the horrific events in Libya from 2011 to now, it might be nicer for a change to look at a few of the more lighthearted curiosities and tidbits from Gaddafi’s monumental and controversial life. And,...

21Oct

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Surviving Torture in a CIA Secret Prison: Khaled al-Sharif of Libya Recounts Horrors

NOVANEWS By Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! A shocking new report details how harsh American interrogation methods have led to devastating psychiatric disorders in former prisoners. The New York Times exposé is titled "How US Torture Left a Legacy of Damaged Minds." It found at least half of the 39 prisoners who went through the CIA's so-called enhanced interrogation program have since shown psychiatric problems -- some have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, paranoia, depression or psychosis. These prisoners were subjected to torture techniques such as severe sleep deprivation, waterboarding, mock execution, sexual violations and confinement in coffin-like boxes in secret CIA prisons and at Guantánamo. We air a video of Khaled al-Sharif speaking ...

21Oct

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Libya: Five Years After Gaddafi’s Brutal Murder

NOVANEWS By Abdus Sattar Ghazali Counter Currents Five years after the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow and brutal murder (on October 20, 2011) the situation is now far worse than it was five years ago, as rival militias fighting for control. Libya has been split between rival parliaments and governments, each backed by a loose array of militias and tribes. Now five years on, Libya is caught between two rival governments, with the western recognized parliament forced into exile in the eastern city of Tobruk in 2014, following a military uprising from the opponent group known as ‘Libyan Dawn’, who have since set up parliament in the capital, Tripoli. While accurate figures are hard to ascertain, estimates suggest tens of thousands have died in Libya as a result of th...

16Oct

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Libya, USA

Ex-arms dealer claims US pinned weapon sales to Libya on him to ‘protect’ Clinton

NOVANEWS RT An American arms dealer, previously indicted for arming Libyan rebels, accused the US of using him as a scapegoat to protect Hillary Clinton. He says the government used his plan to ship weapons to Libya, some of which wound up in terrorists’ hands. “I would say, 100 percent, I was victimized … to somehow discredit me, to throw me under the bus, to do whatever it took to protect their next presidential candidate,” Marc Turi told Fox News. He says that he had specifically been targeted by the Obama administration for years. Eventually, he said, he “lost everything – my family, my friends, my business, my reputation.” Indicted with four felony counts in 2014, Turi’s trial would have start on November 8, but the Department of Justice suddenly dropped charges against him last ...

13Oct

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The Forgotten Libyan Lessons and the Syrian War

NOVANEWS Exclusive: Western leaders are plotting to bomb another Mideast nation, this time Syria, citing “humanitarianism.” But similar claims in Iraq and Libya were deceptive and ended up killing far more people than were “saved,” says Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Most intelligent Americans – Republicans as well as Democrats – now accept that they were duped into the Iraq War with disastrous consequences, but there is more uncertainty about the war on Libya in 2011 as well as the ongoing proxy war on Syria and the New Cold War showdown with Russia over Ukraine. Today, many Democrats don’t want to admit that they have been manipulated into supporting new imperial adventures against Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Russia by the Obama administration as it pulls some of the same propaganda ...

7Oct

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Europe, Libya, USA

Humanitarians for War: Language and the New Orientalists

NOVANEWS By Alex Ray A UK House of Commons inquiry into the 2011 attack on Libya and the country’s subsequent collapse has found what many suspected: NATO and its Gulf Arab allies used their ‘Responsibility To Protect’ to launch their attack even though: “… the proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence.” Though the MPs’ damning report blames Libya’s political and economic collapse on former Prime Minister David Cameron, the manipulation of public opinion to lay the basis for war is built upon longstanding – but now sharpened – processes and semantic structures that prepare populations to accept punitive action against a targeted ‘other’. In an earlier example, on October 10 1990, a young Kuwaiti ...

6Oct

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The Great Libya War Fraud

NOVANEWS Media Lens National newspapers were ‘unimpressed by Jeremy Corbyn’s victory’ in the Labour leadership election, Roy Greenslade noted in theGuardian, surprising no-one. Corbyn secured almost 62% of the 506,000 votes cast, up from the 59% share he won in 2015, ‘with virtually no press backing whatsoever’. In reality, of course, Corbyn did not just lack press backing. He won in the face of more than one year of relentless corporate media campaigning to politically, ethically, professionally, psychologically and even sartorially discredit him. That Corbyn survived is impressive. That he won again, increased his vote-share, and took Labour Party membership from 200,000 to more than 500,000, is astonishing. None of this moves journalists like the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuens...