NATO’s Libya ‘hope’ strategy is bombing By Maj.-General (Ret.) Lewis MacKenzie, Globe and Mail, June 10, 2011 We are now in the 84th day of the bombing campaign that the United Nations Security Council authorized to enforce a no-fly zone…
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Military Escalation: “Phase Two” of the War on Libya
By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, June 1, 2011 A new phase of the war is unfolding leading to a process of military escalation as well as the eventual landing of US-NATO commandos on Libya’s shores. An unprecedented deployment of naval…
Dispatch From Tripoli – NATO’s Feast of Blood
By Cynthia McKinney in Tripoli, Libya, May 24, 2011 While serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism. Founded in 1945 at…
Breaking free from the hoax of nuclear deterrence
UK anti-nuclear weapons protesters. More photos . . . By Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy, Retired, Peace Magazine Five days after my first birthday the Enola Gay bombed Hiroshima. When I was 24, I was a bombardier-navigator in a nuclear…
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in perspective
By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Global Research, May 12, 2011 First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl. It can be downloaded.(2) They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the…
Make Libyan war an election issue
By Paul S. Graham The more we learn about the so-called humanitarian intervention in the skies above Libya, the less it looks like a war Canadians should support. Like the bogus humanitarian claims Tories and Liberals have used to support…
Two wars and no election debate
By Betty Plewes, The Mark, April 15, 2011 It’s time to start discussing Canada’s role in Afghanistan and Libya, and Canada’s declining global reputation. Co-authored by Hunter McGill and Ian Smillie. Under the Harper government, Canada has lost its way…
From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Hubris and Tragedy
by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge From Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the witches brew of melting, spewing and exploding nuclear matter at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Number One, the history of humanity’s first…
The Euro-US war on Libya: Official lies and misconceptions of critics
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…
Libya and The Holy Triumvirate
By William Blum, Anti-Empire Report, March 28, 2011 The words they find it very difficult to say — “civil war”. Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the European Union and NATO — The Holy Triumvirate…