As Fighting Continues in Tripoli, A Look at Role of the US, NATO and Oil Firms in Libya Uprising
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/08/23
Too Soon to Declare Victory
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/23-0
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British Brains, Brawn and Bombs Bolster Libyan Rebels
By RT
On Tuesday, British newspapers revealed that the UK not only detached spies and former SAS gurus to train militants, but was also providing them with ammunition for the operation, including night-vision goggles, advanced communication equipment and no less than 1,000 sets of body armor.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28917.htm
Libya: New Information War
By Garibov Konstantin
We have encountered an explicitly mendacious group of world media, reporting facts that were never confirmed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28919.htm
NATO Tries to Control Libyan Revolution
By Real News
Hamid Dabashi: Neo-liberalism a greater threat to Libya than tribalism or extreme Islam.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28921.htm
The Truth About the Situation in Libya
By Brian Becker
Cutting through the government propaganda and media lies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28925.htm
South Africa s Zuma says NATO campaign cost lives in Libya
'Those who have the power to bomb other countries have undermined the AU s efforts and initiatives to handle the situation in Libya,' said Zuma, after talks with the visiting president of Ghana.
http://bit.ly/pOG53q
U.S. has nearly doubled air attacks on Libya in past 12 days
As the rebels in Libya push closer to ending the regime of embattled Col. Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. warplanes have been increasing their attacks on government positions as part of the NATO campaign.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/22/us.libya.costs/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
The Libya War argument
By Glenn Greenwald
Shamelessly exploiting hatred of the latest Evil Villain to irrationally shield all sorts of policies from critical scrutiny - the everything-is-justified-if-we-get-a-Bad-Guy mentality - is one of the most common and destructive staples of American political discourse, and it s no better when done here.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/22/libya/index.html
How long before the dominoes fall?
We have spent far too much time honouring the courage of Libyan 'freedom fighters' as they scurried across the desert floor, far too little time examining the nature of the beast, the glutinous Transitional National Council whose supposed leader, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has still been unable to explain if his own chums connived in the murder of their own army commander last month.
http://ind.pn/n5jfzi
US Outsourcing Regime Change
NATO Partnership in Libya Serves as Model, Panetta Says
American Forces Press Service
'It is a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we need to have for the future' US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28929.htm
Disaster Capitalism Swoops Over Libya
By Pepe Escobar
Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, we had R2P ('responsibility to protect'). Instead of neo-conservatives, we had humanitarian imperialists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28931.htm
Turning Libya Into A New Afghanistan
By RT
'The majority of people who are fighting Gaddafi are Muslim extremists or people who believe they must create an Islamic state in Libya,'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28930.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Libya: Obama s Pyrrhic victory
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
08/24/11
In what could well be a premonitory moment, they evacuated the Pentagon when the Richmond earthquake hit. The Capitol was also cleared out, for fear its pylons would crash down upon the heads of our shaken solons. Perhaps it was His way of deflating the hubris of our Washington elite, as they giddily proclaim of the 'victory in Libya' narrative that has taken hold in the Imperial City even before America s housebroken 'rebels' take power...
http://bit.ly/oNVBQY
Obama s NATO war for oil in Libya
The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss
08/23/11
What do you call it when the full force of a U.S/NATO aerial bombardment is coupled with political support for a ragtag rebel group that, when victorious, promises to hand over its oil resources to its Western backers? A war for oil. Don t believe for one moment that the U.S. backing for Libya s opposition was about freedom...
http://www.thenation.com/blog/162908/obamas-nato-war-oil-libya
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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On War, Obama Has Been Worse Than Bush
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory237.html
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Leon+Panetta
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gaddafi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Islamic+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=regime+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neoliberalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=capitalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Oil
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=humanitarian
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=air+attack
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bombing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phyllis+Bennis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Garibov+Konstantin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brian+Becker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pepe+Escobar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/gregory
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Too Soon to Declare Victory
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/23-0
--------
British Brains, Brawn and Bombs Bolster Libyan Rebels
By RT
On Tuesday, British newspapers revealed that the UK not only detached spies and former SAS gurus to train militants, but was also providing them with ammunition for the operation, including night-vision goggles, advanced communication equipment and no less than 1,000 sets of body armor.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28917.htm
Libya: New Information War
By Garibov Konstantin
We have encountered an explicitly mendacious group of world media, reporting facts that were never confirmed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28919.htm
NATO Tries to Control Libyan Revolution
By Real News
Hamid Dabashi: Neo-liberalism a greater threat to Libya than tribalism or extreme Islam.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28921.htm
The Truth About the Situation in Libya
By Brian Becker
Cutting through the government propaganda and media lies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28925.htm
South Africa s Zuma says NATO campaign cost lives in Libya
'Those who have the power to bomb other countries have undermined the AU s efforts and initiatives to handle the situation in Libya,' said Zuma, after talks with the visiting president of Ghana.
http://bit.ly/pOG53q
U.S. has nearly doubled air attacks on Libya in past 12 days
As the rebels in Libya push closer to ending the regime of embattled Col. Moammar Gadhafi, U.S. warplanes have been increasing their attacks on government positions as part of the NATO campaign.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/22/us.libya.costs/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
The Libya War argument
By Glenn Greenwald
Shamelessly exploiting hatred of the latest Evil Villain to irrationally shield all sorts of policies from critical scrutiny - the everything-is-justified-if-we-get-a-Bad-Guy mentality - is one of the most common and destructive staples of American political discourse, and it s no better when done here.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/22/libya/index.html
How long before the dominoes fall?
We have spent far too much time honouring the courage of Libyan 'freedom fighters' as they scurried across the desert floor, far too little time examining the nature of the beast, the glutinous Transitional National Council whose supposed leader, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, has still been unable to explain if his own chums connived in the murder of their own army commander last month.
http://ind.pn/n5jfzi
US Outsourcing Regime Change
NATO Partnership in Libya Serves as Model, Panetta Says
American Forces Press Service
'It is a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we need to have for the future' US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28929.htm
Disaster Capitalism Swoops Over Libya
By Pepe Escobar
Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, we had R2P ('responsibility to protect'). Instead of neo-conservatives, we had humanitarian imperialists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28931.htm
Turning Libya Into A New Afghanistan
By RT
'The majority of people who are fighting Gaddafi are Muslim extremists or people who believe they must create an Islamic state in Libya,'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28930.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Libya: Obama s Pyrrhic victory
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
08/24/11
In what could well be a premonitory moment, they evacuated the Pentagon when the Richmond earthquake hit. The Capitol was also cleared out, for fear its pylons would crash down upon the heads of our shaken solons. Perhaps it was His way of deflating the hubris of our Washington elite, as they giddily proclaim of the 'victory in Libya' narrative that has taken hold in the Imperial City even before America s housebroken 'rebels' take power...
http://bit.ly/oNVBQY
Obama s NATO war for oil in Libya
The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss
08/23/11
What do you call it when the full force of a U.S/NATO aerial bombardment is coupled with political support for a ragtag rebel group that, when victorious, promises to hand over its oil resources to its Western backers? A war for oil. Don t believe for one moment that the U.S. backing for Libya s opposition was about freedom...
http://www.thenation.com/blog/162908/obamas-nato-war-oil-libya
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
On War, Obama Has Been Worse Than Bush
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory237.html
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Leon+Panetta
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gaddafi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Islamic+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=regime+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neoliberalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=capitalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Oil
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=humanitarian
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=air+attack
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bombing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phyllis+Bennis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Garibov+Konstantin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brian+Becker
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Dreyfuss
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pepe+Escobar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/gregory
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Starmail - 24. Aug, 08:51
