By James Petras and Robin B. Abaya, Global Research, Mar. 30, 2011 Introduction Many critics of the ongoing Euro-US wars in the Middle East and, now, North Africa, have based their arguments on clichés and generalizations devoid of fact. The…
Category: International
Who are the Libyan freedom fighters and their patrons?
By Professor Peter Dale Scott, Global Research, March 25, 2011 Peter Dale Scott’s Libyan Notebook [Editor’s Note: Author’s selected quotations and analysis] Preface The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle…
War on Libya and control of the Mediterranean
By Rick Rozoff, Global Reearch, Mar. 25, 2011 A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy invited the heads of state of…
Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist aggression shreds UN Charter
By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley, Global Research, Mar. 22, 2011 On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against…
After Sendai
By Richard Falk, Counterpunch, Mar. 18-20, 2011 After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki there was in the West, especially the United States, a short triumphal moment, crediting American science and military prowess with bringing victory over Japan…
Libya and the Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy
By Ghada Chehade, Global Research, March 21, 2011 If you are feeling a sense of déjà vu watching the US (and its “allies”) bombing Libya, you are probably not alone. We have been here before: watching a hypocritical U.S (possibly the most…
The Body Baggers of Iraq
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, March 21, 2011 Jess Goodell enlisted in the Marines immediately after she graduated from high school in 2001. She volunteered three years later to serve in the Marine Corps’ first officially declared Mortuary Affairs unit, at…
What US Air Power Actually Does
By Tom Engelhardt, Counterpunch, March 17, 2011 When men first made war in the air, the imagery that accompanied them was of knights jousting in the sky. Just check out movies like Wings, which won the first Oscar for Best…
No Military Intervention in Libya
Statement from the Canadian Peace Alliance The Government of Canada has announced that it will send HMCS Charlottetown to Libya to join the US aircraft carrier fleet led by the USS enterprise. This is part of a much larger NATO…
Afghan Government cracks down on women’s shelters
By RAWA News, Feb. 21, 2011 The Italian women’s organization, CISDA – Coordinamento Italiano Sostegno Donne Afghane – denounces the draft regulation promoted by the Council of Ministers in January 2011, whose adoption allows the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MoWA)…