By William Blum, September 1, 2011 “Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure?” – Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2011 A few hours later NATO hit…
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Libya: Diplomacy, not bombs, says Lewis MacKenzie
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…
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…
NATO ponders putting ground troops in Libya
Russia Today – Italy will host the next major international meeting on Libya. Leaders from NATO and the Arab league will gather this Thursday to plan the political transition following the departure or ousting of Libyan leader Mamuamar Gaddafi. And…
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…
NATO’s expansion plans
Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Feb. 21, 2011 A recent article in Kenya’s Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization…
From sea to shining sea
America Threatens Russia: U.S. Consolidates New Military Outposts In Eastern Europe Bases, troops and missiles along the entire length of Eastern Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Sept. 24, 2010 With NATO as…
U.S., Canada and NATO Threaten to Extend Afghan War
by Tim Kennelly, The Bullet, Aug. 25, 2010 On March 13, 2008, Canada’s Parliament voted to extend the country’s military “mission” in Afghanistan to July 2011. The motion by the minority Conservative government was supported by the opposition Liberals. The…
Afghanistan: Training Ground for War with Russia
Afghanistan: Training Ground for War with Russia NATO Trains Finland, Sweden For Conflict With Russia by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, July 26, 2009 Finnish military patrol in northern Afghanistan in 2008. Photo: HELSINGIN SANOMAT . . . Last month a…
Germany And NATO’s Nuclear Nexus
By Rick Rozoff, Global Research, July 19, 2009 The reunification of Germany and the start of NATO’s post-Cold War expansion, drive east and beginning of its transformation into a global military force occurred on the same day, October 3, 1990.…