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06/15/11

The White House responded Wednesday to a congressional outcry over U.S. military action in Libya, saying that President Obama has the authority to continue the campaign even without authorization from U.S. lawmakers. ... Because U.S. forces are not engaged in sustained fighting and there are no troops on the ground there, the White House says the president is within his U.S. constitutional rights to direct the mission on his own...

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By Sara Flounders

It is important to understand that NATO countries with the full complicity of the corporate media and the ICC are spreading this Big Lie in order to win support for and close down all opposition to a ground assault of Libya.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28337.htm



NATO attacks ordinary Libyans at petrol pump

Video

As NATO tells the world to prepare for a post-Gaddafi era, coalition bombs continue to blitz the Libyan capital. Gasoline queues snake through Tripoli with fuel in short supply. A scenario made worse with tankers a regular target for air strikes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShzTTwkyXEY&feature=player_embedded



S.Africa says NATO abusing UN resolution on Libya

NATO is abusing a United Nations resolution to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gaddafi s forces in order to pursue regime change and political assassinations, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/safrica-says-nato-abusing-un-resolution-on-libya/



Kucinich, other House members file lawsuit against Obama on Libya military mission

Kucinich and Reps. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Howard Coble (R-N.C.), John Duncan (R-Tenn.), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), John Conyers (D-Mich.) Ron Paul (R-Texas), Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), Tim Johnson (R-Ill.) and Dan Burton (R-Ind.) filed the complaint Wednesday at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

http://wapo.st/mshRfe


From Information Clearing House

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich: 10 Members of Congress Sue President Obama over Illegal Libya War
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/15-3

Kucinich Amendment Tests Congress? Will to Exercise its Constitutional Authority
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/17-0



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Why the NATO Powers are Trying to Assassinate Moammar Gaddafi

By Brian Becker

Wikileaks-released State Department cables from November 2007 and afterwards show the real reason for the mounting U.S. hostility to the Libyan government prior to the current civil war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28323.htm



Just 26% Favor Continued Military Action in Libya

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the United States should continue its military actions in Libya. Forty-two percent (42%) are opposed and 32% are undecided.

http://bit.ly/iF0Q53


From Information Clearing House

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War costs soar, yet more war than we bargained for

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

06/09/11

Those hoping Obama would have been even slightly less belligerent than the last president must be truly disappointed now. I know I am. First, we learn the Libya war, where airstrikes have again intensified, is costing more than previously estimated. Not really much of a surprise. But the earlier Pentagon projection of $40 million a month was off by at least $20 million...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Gold, Oil, Africa and Why the West Wants Gadhafi Dead

By Brian E. Muhammad

Muammar Gadhafi s decision to pursue gold standard and reject dollars for oil payments may have sealed his fate.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28308.htm



6 in 10 Americans Now Oppose Obama s War in Libya

Six in 10 Americans don't think the U.S. should be involved in Libya, according to a new CBS News poll. It found that only 30 percent of Americans think we re doing the right thing by intervening militarily in that country.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/6-in-10-americans-now-oppose-obamas-war-in-libya/240211/


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By Jody McIntyre

We have been sold on a false premise, and, as Noam Chomsky would say, have allowed the manufacture of our consent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28282.htm



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Worse than a third Bush term?

Campaign For Liberty
by Anthony Gregory

06/06/11

If in 2008 someone had said that Obama s war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush s, nearly no one would have believed it. Bush started a preventive war in Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands without any credible correlation to U.S. security, except perhaps a very negative one. He turned a hunt for bin Laden into an excuse to stumble around in Afghanistan at great cost without any clear idea of how the war and occupation were going to improve the situation there. He spent a trillion dollars, just in direct costs, and lost 4,000 American troops in these aggressive and endless wars.'

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1455


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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NATO is 'one step' from sending troops into Libya to help rebels remove Moammar Gadhafi from power, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/05/russia-libya-land-war-nato_n_871521.html



Libya: NATO s War Of Aggression Against A Sovereign African State

By Obi Nwakanma

Libya is the first flashpoint in the resource war that is bound to once more make Africa the battlefield of the great industrial powers. Once they take out Ghadaffi, that challenge to organise and fund a formidable African resistance against a new colonial mandate using the UN will weaken.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28265.htm



Gaddafi's Stolen Billions: Max Keiser Explains 'Financial Terrorism'

Video

International Banks like Goldman Sachs have been looting Libyans money and were able to siphon billions of dollars from that country as they excel in raping countries cheating and stealing through monopoly deceit and lies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28262.htm



Bishop decries bombing of church, warns against partition of Libya

We all ask ourselves a question: why is this happening? We were astonished by the failure of international diplomacy and, perhaps, by its prejudice that makes dialogue impossible with the leadership of Tripoli.'

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=10558


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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, one of the administration s most bipartisan figures, on Friday blasted House efforts to curtail U.S. participation in the NATO campaign in Libya, warning that the move would undermine alliances and military operations

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56110.html



House Passes John Boehner s Modest Libya Resolution, Defeats Dennis Kucinich s Measure to Withdraw Troops

The House of Representatives approved a resolution declaring that 'the President has failed to provide Congress with a compelling rationale based upon United States national security interests for current United States military activities regarding Libya'.

http://abcn.ws/mIUye8


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By Glenn Greenwald

Waging a war for 74 days without Congressional approval is illegal enough. Doing so when there is a growing bipartisan movement in Congress to compel an end to the war - rather than approve it - is even worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28232.htm



NATO: Free Africa from the Africans!

By Glen Ford

As has been obvious from the beginning of this 'humanitarian' farce, the Great White Fathers of Europe - will be satisfied with nothing less than regime change in Libya - and to Hell with what Africans think!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28235.htm



Series Of NATO Strikes Target Tripoli

Ambulances, sirens blaring, could be heard racing through the Libyan capital after the rattling blasts. A NATO statement said the attacks hit military vehicle and ammunition depots, a surface-to-air missile launcher and a fire control radar.

http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=58397



Russia s NATO envoy says alliance in 'ground campaign' in Libya

NATO-led military campaign against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi has in fact turned into ground operation, Russia s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20110602/164394707.html



Pentagon to Congress: Don t Cut Funds for Libya Operation

Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said the Department was concerned about the prospect that Congress could vote against continuing American support for the NATO air strikes in Libya.

http://on.wsj.com/lWKHFN


From Information Clearing House

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How It All Works
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MSNBC s Flawed Coverage of Libya, Economy

Michael Corcoran and Stephen Maher, Truthout: 'When US bombs began to drop on Libya last month, representing the start of the third simultaneous US war (not including covert wars being waged by US Special Forces and the CIA in Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, and elsewhere), it was not surprising to see the media jump into a pro-war frenzy, as it so often does. One might hope, however, that perhaps MSNBC - on the liberal side of acceptable discourse in US cable media - would at least offer significant skepticism toward another expensive and bloody US war. This is especially true given that 74 percent of the US population opposed US intervention. A close look, however, reveals the opposite is true. MSNBC, whose hosts align themselves closely with Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, has been perhaps the most hawkish station on cable news.'

http://www.truthout.org/msnbcs-flawed-coverage-libya-economy/1307021979



We Will Never Accept Unconstitutional War

Aimee Allison, Norman Solomon and David Swanson, RootsAction: 'On May 26, the U.S. House amended the Defense Authorization Act of 2012 to state that its passage in no way authorizes the current war in Libya, and to prohibit the introduction of U.S. ground troops into Libya. We must insist that the Senate uphold those amendments next week. At the same time, the House rejected amendments that would have limited or ended U.S. warfare in Afghanistan, and rejected an amendment that would have stripped Section 1034 from the bill. That section is perhaps the most fundamental change to the structure of our federal government that has ever appeared likely to pass through Congress, as it would effectively give the power to make war to all future presidents. We must demand that the Senate remove Section 1034.'

http://www.truthout.org/we-will-never-accept-unconstitutional-war/1307115135



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/01-10

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Statement Regarding a Delayed Debate on H. Con. Res. 51, His Resolution to End the War in Libya
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/06/01-2

Fears of Depleted Uranium Use in Libya
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/01-5

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Longer Libyan Commitment Sets Up Showdown With Congress

House Republican aides tell Power Play that a vote scheduled for today on Ohio Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich s bill that would force the U.S. to withdraw from the Libyan civil war was yanked from the schedule only after it became clear that it might succeed.

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NATO extends Libya military campaign

NATO has decided to extend its military mission in Libya until the end of September, 2011 as the Western coalition continues to pound targets in Tripoli and its suburbs.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/182715.html


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White House, congressional leaders block Libya debate

The Nation Blog
by John Nichols

06/01/11

President Obama committed U.S. forces to a military conflict with Libya. He did so without following the basic dictates of the Constitution, which requires that wars be declared by Congress, or the War Powers Act, which outlines requirements and timelines for cooperating with the House and Senate after a war has begun. Congressman Dennis Kucinich has raised this issue again and again, pressing for congressional oversight - sometimes on his own, sometimes in the company of a handful on constitutionally-concerned Democrats and Republicans such as Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Now, two months into the fight, Kucinich, D-Ohio, is pressing the point...

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