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…
Libya and The Holy Triumvirate
Tag: imperialism
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…
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…
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…
Rally: Stop US drone attacks on Pakistan
Location: U.S. Consulate, 201 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg Organizer: ACTION 1:21 Background: We are a Christian group that believes following Jesus involves working for justice and peace. Our name is derived from Phillipians 1:21, a Bible verse “for me, to live…
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…
The protest movement in Egypt: “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders
by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Jan. 29, 2011 The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement… What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World? “Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true…
The logic of imperial insanity and the road to World War III
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, Jan. 14, 2011 Defining the Imperial Stratagem In the late 1990s Brzezinski wrote up the design for America’s imperial project in the 21st century in his book, “The Grand Chessboard.” He stated bluntly that,…
Chinese leader denies any aim to replace the US as world hegemon
By John Chan, WSWS, Dec. 17, 2010 In a major 9,000-word essay published on the Chinese foreign ministry’s web site on December 6, State Councilor Dai Bingguo (whose rank is equal to vice premier) declared that Beijing would never seek…
Richard Holbrooke’s Deathbed Conversion
By David Swanson, Dec. 15, 2010 For all the talk of strategic counterinsurgency that oozes out of Washington, and all the manuals explaining that 80% of our investment in a nation-building operation should be civilian, we’ve been investing about 3%…