Libya

The Long Con: Along with France’s Nicolas Sarközy, British PM Tony Blair was tasked with setting up Libya for the country’s eventual take-down in 2011.
In 2011, led by the UK, France and the US, NATO undertook a concerted plan to decapitate and collapse the state of Libya. This plan was not hatched overnight and took years to prepare. The damage and destruction wrought upon the North African state will be felt for generations to come.

There were hate crimes before Donald Trump ran for president, most of them sanctioned by the state, including anti-black violence, as old as white settlement on this continent, says Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report. American Terror is Not New…Read more →

The seventh anniversary of the killing of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on October 20, 2011 provides us with an opportunity to reassess those dramatic events which caused a major step backwards in the country’s development. With the fall of its leader, the country’s power hierarchy collapsed, leading to the disintegration of both government authorities and the armed forces.

By Alex GORKA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 13.10.2018 Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kammenos visited the United States on October 9 to make two proposals that would change a lot if accepted: a new Balkans military alliance and substantial expanding of US military presence in the country. The latter includes setting up three military bases in Larissa, […]

Sputnik – October 9, 2018 LONDON – The Russian Embassy in London on Tuesday refuted reports claiming that Moscow was allegedly plotting to get control over European immigration routes in Libya and establish a stronghold against the West. “This publication has nothing to do with reality. We are treating it as a new attempt to shift the responsibility for the […]

By James Petras | Dissident Voice | October 4, 2018 The leading financial publications have misled their political and investor subscribers of emerging crises and military defeats which have precipitated catastrophic political and economic losses. The most egregious example is the Financial Times (FT) a publication which is widely read by the business and financial […]

Press TV – October 3, 2018 The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia’s key partner in the ongoing Riyadh-led invasion of Yemen, has reportedly been recruiting tribesmen from northern and central parts of Africa to fight in the war. The campaign features Emirati envoys “seducing” the tribesmen across a vast area spanning southern Libya as […]

Tommy Hansen is a Danish, Berlin-based journalist, founder of free21.org, a news site that features over 150 journalists’ work in Europe.
In the Herland Report conversation, he speaks passionately about the deep-rooted moral problem of Western culture as the implementation of democracy now is done by bombing countries.

TRIPOLI, LIBYA — A month of violent in-fighting in Libya’s capital has prompted the “official” government of Libya to call for UN intervention, just seven years after the 2011 NATO intervention laid waste to the country and plunged it into a state of chaos from which it has never recovered.

Taking on the Washington Post again, in the person of columnist Max Boot, formerly of the Wall Street Journal