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…