(David Swanson) It took a variety of approaches to market the 2003 war on Iraq. For some it was to be a defense against an imagined threat. For others it was false revenge. But for ...
Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital ...
The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over. Haftar’s dream of capturing ...
Why the Bouficha Appeal stands for the aspirations of people who want an end to militarized violence on earth. On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text ...
Attendees at the conference discussed the Coronavirus outbreak, Libya, the Iran nuclear deal, and other topics. On February 16, the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2020 held in the Germany city of Munich wrapped up ...
A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the U.S. war machine. February 15 marked the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive ...
Libya’s political future has yet to be decided, but it will deeply impact Europe’s future and the battle against Islamic radicalism. A stone’s throw away from Europe, Libya’s internal strife is ringing ever present in ...
“For Salamé, who is from Lebanon, this kind of multidimensional conflict is not unfamiliar; nor is it peculiar to have several foreign countries intervene for their own narrow ends and thereby make peace impossible.” Ghassan ...
Promising signs that the Libyan civil war was approaching an end on Monday gave way to news on Tuesday that General Haftar walked away from a Russian-brokered ceasefire. Only a day after Russia’s foreign minister ...
Libya’s warring parties are expected to sign a ceasefire and a ‘political settlement’ that will resolve the country’s seven-year-long civil war on Tuesday. Following intense negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow this Monday, Libya’s warring ...
The United Nations is reportedly close to identifying the responsible party in an attack on a migrant camp in Libya that killed dozens last July. In July of this year, the Tajoura migration concentration camp ...
The fate of Libya may be determined by which side bought the better public relations team. (By Reid Champlin, Center for Responsive Politics) The Libyan civil war rages well into its eighth year as warlord Khalifa ...
“The latest air strike could constitute a war crime that has caused hideous and most tragic deaths.” At least 44 civilians including women and children, believed to be African migrants, were reportedly killed and more ...
Libya is on the verge of becoming the next proxy war, as its coalition government struggles to retain control over the country. Last Wednesday, the U.N.-recognized Coalition Government of Libya, declared that its forces wrestled ...
Libya has struggled with violence and political discord since Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster and death. New fighting broke out in Tripoli, Libya, recently, and the government immediately responded with setting up shelters for the displaced. The ...
“What we’re seeing are lots of players coming into Libya. It’s a recipe that’s almost heading to a Yemen scenario. We’re beginning to see a proxy war emerging.” An investigative report by Al Jazeera Arabic ...
“In 2015, the general (Khalifa Haftar) boasted to me while we were at his command headquarters in Marj that he would win the post-2014 civil war by killing all the Islamists in Libya, not by ...
The Women’s Refugee Commission report details the atrocities faced by refugees in camps in Libya, and the brutality of the Libyan Coast Guard, both of which have been financed by the European Union in an ...
“‘Virginity testing’ has no scientific or clinical basis. There is no examination that can prove a girl or woman has had sex.” “WHO, UN Human Rights and UN Women have today issued a statement calling ...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says they have reliable information that human traffickers are posing wearing clothes with the UNHCR logo at smuggling hubs and disembarkation points in Libya. UNHCR workers are often present at ...
A 21-year-old woman is pushing gender standards in Libya through the development of her app, Yummy, which allows Libyan women to sell home-cooked food “Every cloud has a silver lining,” the saying goes. To testify ...
For the last five years, there has been an upsurge in the rate of illegal immigration into Europe by Africans. The immigrants have continued to endure the dangerous journey through the Sahara desert and risk ...
Italian politics faces a pivotal day on March 4. Italians will elect a new national government, that is if any party wins enough seats in the Italian election to form a government. Despite having multiple ...
With the fall of Gaddafi came the rise of a modern day slave trade in Libya. Our correspondent in Africa tells the tale of the horrific situation that befalls many in Africa. Chinedu, a young ...
Twenty minute edit of the full interview with Libya’s Colonel Khadafi with 3 World journalist, filmed in Tripoli on the 28 February 2011.
The 2011 intervention in Libya was sparked by the US condemning the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan government. The official justification for the intervention was that Gaddafi was a brutal dictator who had ...
1/22/13 – Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin—who is the former commander of the U.S. Special Forces Command, the former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and who, in the 1990s, worked with the ...
Al Fateh University (Arabic: جامعة الفاتح) is the largest and most important institute of higher education in Libya, providing undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels of study. It is located in the capital Tripoli. The university ...
Reposted from Foreign Policy Journal. Article by Garikai Chengu, January 12, 2013 Contrary to popular belief, Libya, which western media described as “Gaddafi’s military dictatorship”, was in actual fact one of the world’s most democratic States. ...
This is a video of Gaddafi driving through the streets of Libya in an unarmored car with the people cheering him on as he drives by.
During an interview on Democracy Now General Wesley Clark reveals the Bush presidency's response to 9/11 was to take out 7 middle eastern countries in 5 years.
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