World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/30-4

Who is the Libyan Opposition?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/30-13

Libya: 'Who Are the Rebels?'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/30-12

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Aggressive War on Libya
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff347.html

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Obama Authorizes Secret Support for Libya Rebels

By Mark Hosenball

President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27799.htm



Libyan Rebel Leader Spent Much of Past 20 Years in Langley Virginia

By Chris Adams

Since coming to the United States in the early 1990s, Hifter lived in suburban Virginia outside Washington, D.C. Badr said he was unsure exactly what Hifter did to support himself, and that Hifter primarily focused on helping his large family.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27795.htm



American Media Silent on CIA Ties to Libya Rebel Commander

By Patrick Martin

The selection of a longtime CIA collaborator as commander of the rebels makes nonsense of the official claim that the United States is intervening militarily in Libya to protect civilian lives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27796.htm



Arming Libya Rebels Not Allowed by UN Resolutions

By Robert Booth

The US is likely to be in breach of the UN security councils arms embargo on Libya if it sends weapons to the rebels, experts in international law have warned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27793.htm



The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics

By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya

If not to prevent genocide, grab the oil or promote democracy (via Patriot missiles), what, then, is the driving force behind the Euro-US imperial intervention?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27797.htm



The wisdom and legality of arming Libyan rebels

If the U.S. wants to arm the rebels, it will do so regardless of whether it violates any U.N. arms embargo, and few supporters of this war - most of whom justify it by pointing to these U.N. Resolutions - will care very much, if at all. Once wars begin, and positions harden, nothing matters less than legalities.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/30/libya/index.html



Russia: Coalition troops in Libya must stay within UN mandate

Coalition forces involved in military action in Libya must operate strictly within the United Nations mandate, said Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to NATO, on Tuesday.

http://bit.ly/hJWQ2R



Russia: Libyan people, not foreign 'meddling', should bring about democracy

The foreign minister appealed to NATO to stick to its pledge to remain impartial, and called for an immediate ceasefire and the start of talks to resolve the conflict..

http://bit.ly/gg6vIH



China tells France force will wont work in Libya

Chinese President Hu Jintao admonished French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the Western bombing campaign in Libya on Wednesday, saying force will not resolve the conflict in the North African country.

http://www.bradenton.com/2011/03/30/3073173/china-tells-france-force-will.html



No military solution to Libya crisis: NATO chief

Declines to 'guess' how long NATO's Libya mission will go.
http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLDE72S29720110329?sp=true



US Congressmen: Libya attack illegal

On Tuesday, Representatives Timothy Johnson of Illinois and Justin Amash of Michigan introduced the draft legislation that aims to suspend all fundings to measures involving US President Barack Obamas decision to intervene in Libya.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172328.html



The Hypocrisy of the West's 'Humanitarian Interventions'

By Peter Lavelle

Western sponsored 'humanitarian intervention' always picks a side - and the winning side does what it pleases. This is one of the unspoken spin-offs of 'humanitarian interventionism'.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27803.htm



At least 40 civilians killed in 'humanitarian' airstrikes, bishop says

'The so-called humanitarian raids have caused dozens of victims among civilians in some areas of Tripoli,' the Libyan capital, Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, told the Vatican's missionary news agency Fides March 31.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101275.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Thoughts on Libya and liberal interventionism

MikeMarqusee.com
by Mike Marqusee

03/25/11

In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland writes that liberal interventionism is 'fine in theory' but goes wrong 'in practise.' Id suggest that it goes wrong in practise because it?s deeply flawed in theory. The hypocrisy, double standards and selectivity displayed in the western military action in Libya defy enumeration, but just for a start...

http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=1156


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tell Your Congressmembers to Support the Kucinich Amendment
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/424/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6359



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