Libya

21st Century Wire says…
A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.

Sputnik – February 27, 2016 In an interview with Sputnik, military expert Antonio Mazzeo described Rome’s decision to allow armed US drones to fly from  the Sigonella military base in Sicily to Libya as a gross violation of the Italian Constitution. According to him, the move will further add to the militarization of the Sigonella base. He said that even the deployment of unarmed Global […]

MEMO | February 26, 2016 A former director of America’s Central Intelligence Agency has said that the international agreements made after World War Two are starting to fall apart, and may change the borders of some countries in the Middle East. “What we see here is a fundamental melting down of the international order,” Michael […]

Mankind, it seems, likes to get behind a banner as a way of defining collective identity. This season it is the election of a new authority figure to occupy the White House that ineluctably sucks us up into the dizzy heights of a form of American pantomime that flashes itself to all and sundry. The Barnum & Bailey Circus spin-doctoring pitch to the audience (native and global) is a dynamo unto itself that can banish all insouciance, and does, in order to bring us ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ per supposedly democratic means.

By Catherine Shakdam | American Herald Tribune | February 25, 2016 If Western capitals and their international agencies have long decried sectarianism, and all other form of overt xenophobia, may it revolve around ethnicity, social class, gender, politics or faith, those powers have nevertheless leaned on elitism and selectivity to carry both their war propaganda […]

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology

As US liberals and some leftists are pulling up their sleeves in anticipation of a prolonged battle for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, the tussle becomes particularly ugly whenever the candidates’ foreign policy agendas are evoked.

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How long until Russia shifts its attention to African territory?
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teleSUR | February 24, 2016 French special forces and intelligence commandos are engaged in covert operations against Islamic State group militants in Libya in conjunction with the United States and Britain, the French newspaper Le Monde reported Wednesday. It said President Francois Hollande had authorized “unofficial military action” by both an elite armed forces unit […]

Randy Johnson
21st Century Wire
For the most part, “everyday people” empathize with other everyday people.
In a world in which a real-time “global conflict tracker” exists, politicians and the news media seem intent on telling their voters and viewers where to focus their full attention.