Qaddafi claims Western support: real or hallucinatory?
Moammar Qaddafi defended his military’s right to put down the rebels by invoking Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, and insisted he still has “very good relations with the United States.”
Moammar Qaddafi defended his military’s right to put down the rebels by invoking Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, and insisted he still has “very good relations with the United States.”
Dear Readers: We weren’t sure we were going to put out a March issue, but we received some very insightful material on Libya and the revolutions in the Arab world that we couldn’t resist helping to get out to a… Read moreLast Chance to Save World War 4 Report’s Monthly Edition!
Continue ReadingLast Chance to Save World War 4 Report’s Monthly Edition!Electronic Journal & Daily Report ANTI-IMPERIALISM AND THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION From Latin America to the Arab World by Santiago Alba Rico & Alma Allende, Rebelión INTERNATIONALISM, LIBYA AND THE ARAB REVOLTS by Pierre Beaudet, Viento Sur LIBYA: THE WASHINGTON-LONDON DILEMMA… Read moreIssue #173, March 2011
by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY For the past three weeks our screens have been awash with images of indignant Egyptians defying their brutal government with a loud, unprecedented, unified call for democracy. Our radios hummed with an accented… Read moreREVOLUTION IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK
Continue ReadingREVOLUTION IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOKby Paul Rogers, OpenDemocracy The emerging pattern of resistance and repression in Libya following the outbreak of protest in the eastern city of Benghazi on February 15 is very different from that in other parts of the Arab world. In… Read moreLIBYA: THE WASHINGTON-LONDON DILEMMA
Continue ReadingLIBYA: THE WASHINGTON-LONDON DILEMMAby Rene Wadlow, Toward Freedom While the People’s Revolution in Tunisia and Egypt was largely non-violent, the revolution in Libya may turn still more violent as the last of the palace guard circle around Colonel Qaddafi, his family and a… Read moreTHE LAST CIRCLE IN LIBYA
Continue ReadingTHE LAST CIRCLE IN LIBYAby Pierre Beaudet, Viento Sur The right-wing press in Venezuela and throughout the world is raving against the government of Hugo Chávez for its expressed support for the regime of Qaddafi. The Venezuelan exterior minister, Nicolás Maduro, has declared that… Read moreINTERNATIONALISM, LIBYA AND THE ARAB REVOLTS
Continue ReadingINTERNATIONALISM, LIBYA AND THE ARAB REVOLTSWhat’s going on in Libya? by Santiago Alba Rico & Alma Allende, Rebelión We have the impression that a great worldwide liberation process may be aborted by the unappeasable ferocity of Qaddafi, US interventionism, and a lack of foresight in… Read moreFROM LATIN AMERICA TO THE ARAB WORLD
Continue ReadingFROM LATIN AMERICA TO THE ARAB WORLD