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No Encontro Mundial dos Blogueiros, ocorrido em Foz do Iguaçu, no final de outubro/2011, vários jornalistas e blogueiros de todo o mundo participaram. Aqui v…
“The United States has a strategic interest in a stable and prosperous Libya, and is supporting Libya’s democratic transition in cooperation with the UN and other international partners. Recognizing Libya’s own substantial resources, the United States has focused on building Libyan institutions and increasing its capacity to govern effectively, hold free and fair elections, and manage public finances transparently and responsibly. We have also provided targeted assistance to support the development of Libyan civil society and its security forces. Investing modestly in Libya’s future will help further advance Libya’s democratic transition, promote stability, and strengthen the U.S.-Libya partnership.
The majority of the $170 million in U.S. assistance to Libya was provided to respond to urgent humanitarian and security challenges in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. Additional assistance is focused on supporting capacity building efforts within government institutions, developing civil society, and facilitating free and fair elections. All programs advance key U.S. interests by filling critical capacity gaps within U.S.-Libya identified transition priorities. All projects are being coordinated with the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
The United States has also resumed a full range of people-to-people programming and exchanges, to include scholarships, fellowships, English-language education, educational advising, cultural preservation, and short term visits and training in the United States. …”
The Libyan civil war of 2011-12 had been fought expressly to reinstate the 1952 Constitution, however, the government create by the NTC bears little resemblance to the…
“Libyans went, on July 7, 2012, into their first national elections in decades, and foreign observers hailed the fact that the event took place so well, and that democracy had returned to the Maghreb state. What went unsaid — because most external observers failed to comprehend the complexity of the situation — was that the actual basis of the electoral structure had been shaped by external forces.
Yes, there was widespread voting for a slate of candidates. But the parliament for which the Libyans voted had already become a body which had broken the carefully-balanced structure created by the 1952 Constitution. Indeed, the Libyan civil war of 2011-12 had been fought expressly to reinstate the 1952 Constitution, and the fighting had taken place under the 1952 Constitutional flag, now adopted as the flag of post-Qadhafi Libya.
Moscow is determined to work with its partners on Syria despite different views, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev told The Times newspaper. Talking in London, he also praised organizers of the Olympics and said Sochi 2014 could use some British experience.
”(…) Of course, this is influencing our position. In fact, when the situation with Syria started, I said from the very beginning that we would adjust our approach because of what happened with Libya. When the resolution on Libya was adopted, we thought our countries would hold consultations and talks and at the same time we would send a serious signal to the Libyan leader. But unfortunately it ended up the way it did. They kept telling us there would be no military operation, no intervention, but eventually they started a full-blown war that claimed many lives. And most importantly, I think it is a bad way to determine a country’s future. We all share democratic values, but imposed democracy usually does not work. Democracy must grow from inside. Only then does it enjoy popular support. So, what happened with Libya has definitely affected my position and continues influencing Russia’s position on the Syrian conflict. (…) “
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Anthony Quinn stars as Libyan hero Omar Mukhtar, who organizes Libyan forces to hold off the encroaching Italian troops under General Rodolfo Graziana (Oliver Reed), who are trying to gain a footho…
Fighters fresh from victory in Libya are moving into Syria to join opposition forces fighting President’s Bashar al-Assad’s military.
PLEASE TRANSLATE FOR REALITY: Libya-n alqaeda mercenaries are killing Syria-n civilians.
“A year ago today, Major General Abdelfattah Younes Al Oubaydi, the Chief of the Libyan National Liberation Army during the revolution was assassinated in Benghazi.
Oubaydi was shot on July 28th in front a hotel, immediately before he was to hold a meeting with the newly formed National Transitional Council. The identity of his killer is severely contested with some saying that he was shot by a member of Al Qaida, while others claim it was a Gaddafi loyalist. … “
Check the Video Of what Alaqeda Rebels did with Younes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvjNclpwLUU&feature=player_embedded
What will be the next Invention? Gaddafi Killed by his wife and sons Disguiseds of Rebels?
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Face to Face with Annie Machon Annie Machon: ex-MI-5 whistle-blower, activist and author joins Jack Etkin for an elucidating and revealing look at ‘Deep (MI-5′s botched attempt on Gaddafi’s life London Tube bombing (7/7), 9/11 and others.)…
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Face to Face with Annie Machon Annie Machon: ex-MI-5 whistle-blower, activist and author joins Jack Etkin for an elucidating and revealing look at ‘Deep (MI-5′s botched attempt on Gaddafi’s life London Tube bombing (7/7), 9/11 and others.)…
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Gaddafi speech in Sirte 21.07.2011with English subtitles Tripoli…
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Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani told al-Jazeera [2] that yes - they are training Syrian Kurds who defected from the Syrian Army to defend their de facto enclave. It was Barzani who supervised the key deal sealed in Irbil on July 11 that led to Assad forces retreating from Syrian Kurdistan.
What is being described as “liberated cities” [3] is now being “jointly ruled” by the PYD and the KNC. They have formed what is known as a Supreme Kurdish Body.
One can never underestimate the Kurdish capacity to shoot themselves in the foot (and elsewhere). Yet one can also imagine all this cross-country Kurdish frenzy terrifying quite a few souls in Istanbul and Ankara. This [4] columnist for the daily newspaper Hurriyet got it right; “Arabs are fighting, Kurds are winning.” The Kurdish Spring is at hand. And it is already hitting Turkey’s borders.
Davutoglu must have seen it coming; when a formerly “zero problem” foreign policy evolves into housing the weaponized opposition to a neighboring government, you’re bound to be in trouble.
Especially when you start itching to kill “terrorists” living in your neighbor’s territory - even though your Western allies may view them as “freedom fighters”. Meanwhile you actively support Salafi-jihadis - “insurgents” formerly known as terrorists - back and forth across your borders.
An increasingly erratic Erdogan has invoked a “natural right” [5] to fight “terrorists”. But first they must produce an ID; if they are Sunni Arab, they get away with it. If they are Kurdish, they eat lead.
«RAF personnel flew armed remote-controlled drones over Libya against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, it was disclosed, as the Government confirmed the first British use of the controversial aircraft outside Afghanistan.
In a parliamentary answer, Lord Astor of Hever, under secretary of state at the Ministry of Defence, said drones belonging to the United States were operated by British pilots during the Nato operation in 2011.
Lord Bates of Langbaurgh had asked for clarification on whether or not armed British drones had been used against terror suspects outside Afghanistan.
“Her Majesty’s Government do not use armed remotely piloted air systems against terrorist suspects outside Afghanistan,” replied Lord Astor. “However, UK personnel flew armed remotely piloted air systems missions against Gaddafi’s forces in Libya in 2011, in support of the Nato humanitarian mission authorised under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.” »
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The Libyan leader’s ouster dispersed masses of guns and refugees across the region.
« … “Most Sadc members states, particularly South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Tanzania, Namibia and Zambia which played a key role in the southern Africa liberation struggle, were not happy with the way Jean Ping handled the Libyan bombing by Nato jets last year.”
The official said Sadc leaders felt that Libya, and in particular its charismatic leader the late Muammar Gaddaffi, was not defended by Africa through the AU.
The diplomat revealed why Sadc put into use all its diplomatic resources to defeat the Gabonese diplomat, saying:
“Gadaffi was a hero to South African liberation fighters. He offered unlimited military and financial support to them during the struggle. So when they saw their hero being hit, with the AU Commission deliberately holding back any diplomatic support to save him, they waited for the right time to come to punish Jean Ping.”
The South African senior diplomat’s argument was supported by the minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr Bernard Membe, who gave details of the reason for Jean Ping being shown the door come rain or sunshine.
“Colonel Gaddafi and, by extension, Libya did everything to get the AU where it is today. How come such a dear son of African being left to fight alone a machination of foreign forces in the name of Nato?” Wondered the minister during an interview in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
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The detention of Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and her colleagues shone a spotlight on the operations of the International Criminal Court. So what exactly is the court’s purpose and what does it do to ensure the adequate security of its staff?
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Peter Robinson, legal advisor for Radovan Karadzic, former president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, at the ICTY, stated at the time: “The ICC itself needs to make it clear to Libya that the immunity of its staff must be honoured. If Libya cannot be counted on to honour such an elementary principle, its admissibility challenge should be dismissed as it cannot be counted on to respect basic principles of justice. The UN Security Council should then be asked to impose sanctions on Libya until it releases the ICC staff and turns over Saif al Islam to the ICC.”
The right of access by a lawyer to the accused is a right that should be protected under the rule of law. This is a right that can be restricted and controlled but not denied. Robinson described the importance of access by ICC staff members. “An accused held in a state cannot access the ICC except through a lawyer. His case would be a one-sided farce if only the prosecution could access the court and have his views considered.” … “
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“Nigerians are dying in Libyan prisons - Returnees
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Nigerians, who were recently repatriated from the crises-torn Libya relay their ordeal after they were caught in-between two feuding camps.
Their appearances tell the story of the ordeals they went through in their host country. The 327 Nigerians who were recently evacuated from the crises-torn Libya wear the scar like a toga.
Disheveled, disillusioned and angry, the returnees, men, women and children arrived the Murtala Mohammed International Airport last weekend in two batches on board a Tripoli Air Memphis SUBME Plane.
The stranded Nigerians, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), were evacuated to the country from Libya through the effort of the International Office for Migration (IOM), a United Nations body.
Statistics by the Agency indicate of those brought back, 113 are females and 214 males. Among them also are11 under-aged children and one elderly person.
Weekly Trust learnt that some of the returnees had been tortured or imprisoned by the new government in Tripoli before they were evacuated.
Some of them who relieve their experiences to Weekly Trust painted a gloomy picture of the post Gaddafi era, in which cross fire there were caught.
Mr. Okwudolor John said “the situation is very bad in Libya. Nigerians are suffering; some are very sick while others are dying. … “
“The death of Muammar Gaddafi continues to reverberate across Africa – this time in the form of desert locusts.
The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations warned on Tuesday that croplands in Niger and Mali were at imminent risk from locust swarms moving south from Libya and Algeria.
The revolution in Libya played a major role in allowing the pests to breed, it said.
“The fall of Gaddafi was an enormous factor, to be honest,” said Keith Cressman, FAO senior locust forecasting officer. “It depleted the Libyans’ capacity to monitor and respond as they normally would.”
Insecurity along the Libya-Algeria border – a fallout from the uprising – meant that teams are still unable to properly spray the affected areas.
Desert locusts have the capacity to destroy vast areas of croplands. During a plague, a swarm can stretch for several hundred square kilometres comprising billions of locusts, each capable of eating its own weight in food a day.
“The death of Muammar Gaddafi continues to reverberate across Africa – this time in the form of desert locusts.
The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations warned on Tuesday that croplands in Niger and Mali were at imminent risk from locust swarms moving south from Libya and Algeria.
The revolution in Libya played a major role in allowing the pests to breed, it said.
“The fall of Gaddafi was an enormous factor, to be honest,” said Keith Cressman, FAO senior locust forecasting officer. “It depleted the Libyans’ capacity to monitor and respond as they normally would.”
Insecurity along the Libya-Algeria border – a fallout from the uprising – meant that teams are still unable to properly spray the affected areas.
Desert locusts have the capacity to destroy vast areas of croplands. During a plague, a swarm can stretch for several hundred square kilometres comprising billions of locusts, each capable of eating its own weight in food a day.
“Update: Indeed BBC did not see “MIGs” bombing Aleppo, though it appears they weren’t even anti-tank SU-25’s but rather training aircraft. Aero L-39 Albatros are also not even “Russian-made” as the BBC claimed. The article below has been amended to reflect this information. Read here for more.
July 25, 2012 - When big lies must be told, BBC is there. From Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya and now Syria, BBC has paved the way for Western disinformation meant to mange public perception around a war the public would otherwise never support or tolerate.
The BBC, caught on record producing entire “documentaries” on behalf of corporate-financier interests, has already been caught in immense lies regarding the NATO-fueled destabilization of Syria. This includes the disingenuous use of photos from Iraq, to depict a so-called “massacre” in the village of Houla, Syria.
Now, as NATO’s Al Qaeda mercenaries operating under the banner of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” flow over the Turkish-Syrian border in an attempt to overrun the city of Aleppo, BBC is there, attempting to manipulate the public’s perception as the conflict unfolds.
BBC’s Ian Pannell admits he rode with a convoy of milatnt fighters into Aleppo at night. He claims many are desperate for the FSA to succeed, “clamoring for freedom denied by their president,” but concedes many others fear an “Islamic takeover” and sectarian “division and bloodshed.” The latter of course, is self-evident, while the former is the repeated, unfounded mantra of the Western media used to cover up the latter.
Pannell poses amongst staged settings, claiming a single burning tire equates to a barricade set up by the militants (see more on the use of burning tires as propaganda here and here). He concedes that militants are taking to the rooftops with sniper rifles in the districts they claim they control - begging one to wonder where else terrorist snipers have been, and how many “sniper” deaths have been mistakenly blamed on the government.
Covering Up FSA War Crimes
Pannell then attempts to cover up serious war crimes committed by the FSA militants he is traveling with, claiming that men the FSA arbitrarily rounded up while “seeking revenge” were “suspected Shabiha,” harking back to Libya’s NATO-backed terrorist death squads rounding up and killing Libya’s black communities in orgies of sectarian genocide - which outlets like the BBC defended as simply rebels targeting “suspected African mercenaries.” Pannell papers over what he just reported with the unqualified claim that there is “little justice” on either side. What became of the FSA’s victims is not revealed. …”
‘ARAB SPRING’ QUARTERLY UPDATE
“It’s a game of poker
where they’re not playing aces
they are playing jokers”.
We have been around long enough and seen and spoken to enough real revolutionaries to be able to differentiate those political forces promoting something beneficial for Afrika (and thus the world) as oppose to the ragtag bunch of Islamists, wagonists, CIA operatives, deserters, informers, political ingenues and white belly rats pimping their wares under the banners of ‘democracy’, ‘patriotism’, ‘revolution’, ‘free / freedom’ or ‘liberation’.
” Little if any information was publicly available regarding Gaddafi’s attempt to find refuge outside of the country he had been ruling with an authoritarian grip for forty-two years.
Thanks to the further publication by Wikileaks of the GI Files - the Global Intelligence Files, a trove of five millionStratfor emails it obtained at the end of 2011 - the public, journalists and historians will be able to better understand and investigate what happened during this episode of the Libyan revolution, and especially regarding the precise role of Algeria.
We were able to access the yet-unpublished GI Files material, thanks to an investigative partnership organized by WikiLeaks and involving journalists, academics and human rights organizations like this one
More articles will follow as we come across valuable information.
– by Mehdi
- First published on 24-07-2012
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“Once upon a time, early in the previous century, a line in the sand was drawn, from Acre to Kirkuk. Two colonial powers - Britain and France - nonchalantly divided the Middle East between themselves; everything north of the line in the sand was France’s; south, it was Britain’s.
Many blowbacks - and concentric tragedies - later, a new line in the sand is being drawn by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Between Syria and Iraq, they want it all. Talk about the return of the repressed; now, as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Gulf Cooperation Council compound, they’re in bed with their former colonial masters.
Blow by blow
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Over 10,000 Libyans are reportedly being trained in a closed-off zone in Jordan, before being snuck into Syria to fight for the opposition. These men are allegedly paid around US$1,000 a month, funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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Directed by Hannah Lew and filmed on location in Olympia, WA. The new, self-titled LP from Deep Time is out July 10th, 2012 on Hardly Art. www.hardlyart.com …
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The official video for Hot Chip’s “Look At Where We Are” taken from the album In Our Heads, out now. Directed by Danny Perez, this video is a collaboration b…
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Obama’s Greater East | “THE ART OF WAR” | Behind the soothing rhetoric about defending human rights and promoting democracy, the Obama administration has expanded its area of intervention wherein it continues to perpetrate human rights violations…
(…) Libya offers a rare exception to the bad news emanating from the Arab world in recent months. Oil revenue and a small population certainly help, but there also may be a perverse source of good fortune. Egypt is a country with strong institutions, which was supposed to improve the prospects of a democratic transition; but those institutions, including the military and the judiciary, are now obstructing the popular will and perhaps leading to a crisis. Thanks to Qaddafi’s megalomaniac rule, Libya is a country of no institutions; and so no powerful bloc can stand athwart the political process. It would be a charming irony if Qaddafi’s most pernicious legacy turned out to be Libya’s hidden advantage. “
“… In fact, according to Nasser al-Hawary of a Libyan Observatory for Human Rights, “The tellurian rights conditions in Libya now is distant worse than underneath a late tyrant Muammar Gaddafi.” (Inter Press Service, Jul 14) This matter is telling, generally given that a source is a domestic competition of a former government.
The National Transition Council, a pro-imperialist ruling physique in Libya, has been incompetent to settle any management over a country. Armed militias, formerly employed by a NTC to quarrel opposite Gaddafi’s supporters, continue to ramble a country, looting villages and enchanting in abductions, killings and torture.
Dark-skinned Libyans and African migrants are quite exposed to a apprehension of a militias. Racist assault has been a executive underline of a Libyan “revolution,” that began Feb. 17, 2011. …”
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Continuing in the great FuzzyMemories tradition of finding and posting a clip too late to be entirely relevant, here is a 60 Minutes piece that I found which…
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Support for U.S. military intervention in Libya and Syria it isn’t any less wrong when it comes from voices on the left.
“The role of U.S. and Western military intervention in Libya last year and the threat of the same in Syria today has prompted a sharp debate on the U.S. and international left. But one left-wing writer, Pham Binh, has been on both sides of the debate—against intervention and for it—in a matter of about a year.
Paul D’Amato, managing editor of International Socialist Review and author of The Meaning of Marxism, challenges Binh’s newfound position that the left should have supported NATO’s war on Libya in order to advance the revolution against dictator Muammar Gaddafi—and that it should take the same pro-intervention position today in Syria in order to support the struggle against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. …”
WORTH TO READ!!!
Support for U.S. military intervention in Libya and Syria it isn’t any less wrong when it comes from voices on the left.
“The role of U.S. and Western military intervention in Libya last year and the threat of the same in Syria today has prompted a sharp debate on the U.S. and international left. But one left-wing writer, Pham Binh, has been on both sides of the debate—against intervention and for it—in a matter of about a year.
Paul D’Amato, managing editor of International Socialist Review and author of The Meaning of Marxism, challenges Binh’s newfound position that the left should have supported NATO’s war on Libya in order to advance the revolution against dictator Muammar Gaddafi—and that it should take the same pro-intervention position today in Syria in order to support the struggle against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. …”
WORTH TO READ!!!
The Zintani fighters who helped to topple Qaddafi are in desperate need of an official role in post-conflict Libya.
«… The transitional government has neglected these problems, said Mukhtar Al Akhdar, a senior commander of Zintan’s rebel forces, who was receiving visitors in a vast mansion in Tripoli. “The transitional government was having breakfast with the Americans, lunch with the British. They don’t care about Libya,” he said indignantly. “And Libyans die.”
Although he hopes that the new government will work harder to improve infrastructure, stability and employment, Mr Akhdar said that he did not vote in the recent parliamentary elections.
His limited faith in the role of the central government says much about the challenges the elected will face.
“Did you vote in the election?” he asked one young Libyan man with the telltale indigo stain. “Did you dip your finger in the ink? I dipped my finger in the blood of the martyrs.” »
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It is presumed that Libyans under the reconciliatory liberal Mahmoud Jibril can regulate their ways out of their woes.
Nine months after the U.S./NATO-led overthrow of the Muammar Gaddafi government in Libya, human rights abuses are rampant.
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“The National Transition Council, the pro-imperialist governing body in Libya, has been unable to establish any authority over the country. Armed militias, previously employed by the NTC to fight against Gaddafi’s supporters, continue to roam the country, looting villages and engaging in abductions, killings and torture.
Dark-skinned Libyans and African migrants are particularly vulnerable to the terror of the militias. Racist violence has been a central feature of the Libyan “revolution,” which began Feb. 17, 2011.
Prior to the uprising, Libya was home to about 1 million migrant workers. Rebel propaganda, which the NTC had a hand in producing, maliciously targeted black migrants as “mercenaries” for the Gaddafi government, and black Africans were routinely singled out for lynching, torture and imprisonment based on their skin color. This racism continues. In March of this year, video footage surfaced of black Africans, held in a Benghazi zoo by rebels, being tortured and forced to eat the flag of the former, sovereign government.
The NTC still holds over 6,000 people in detention centers throughout the country. In the desert outside of Sabha, in southwestern Libya, over 1,300 immigrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, are being detained in an open-air prison. The detainees sleep on the desert ground without shelter or bedding, and water and food are scarce.
The human rights situation in Libya today is not only worse than it was under Gaddafi, as al-Hawary states; it represents a near 180 degree flip. … “
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*Elements of the following critique could be applied to a number of ‘left’ and ‘anti-war’ organisations including Stop The War Coalition, Counterfire and SWP Stop the War Co…
