Libya
‘Death or victory!’ – Gaddafi addresses the nation
Colonel Gaddafi has addressed his nation to say the battle with “aggressors” will last “until the end”. Meanwhile, the rebels’ assault on the Tripoli compound brought no visible results and shelling goes on in Libyan towns. Muammar Gaddafi said leaving… Read More ›
Libyan Governmental Troops Force Western-backed Rebels Into Retreat in Tripoli
Gadhafi loyalists showing resilience in Tripoli Forces loyal to fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the previous night, forcing them to retreat from several strategic locations and… Read More ›
Gaddafi regime remaining defiant
Muammar Gaddafi is still at large as loyalist forces staged a defiant and bloody last stand in the Libyan capital against advancing rebels. In a morale boosting development for the regime, the embattled dictator’s son Saif al-Islam also appeared in… Read More ›
Eyewitnesses dismiss overnight rebel advances on Tripoli
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumors of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it transpired that most of these shots were fired by victorious Gaddafi loyalists. On Saturday evening,… Read More ›
Gadhafi Sons Captured in Battle in Tripoli: Is the End Near?
Conflicting Stories Abound as War Reaches the Capital by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2011 A flurry of reports from myriad sources are detailing what is a growing amount of fighting in and around the Libyan capital city of Tripoli, as… Read More ›
‘Funny’ Anti-Gaddafi Cartoons Reveal Rebel Racism, Anti-Semitism
Gaddafi’s eastern Libyan opponents have been flaunting their prejudice in full view of the world’s media with little to no response. In late February, back at the outset of the eastern Libyan rebellion against the rule of Muammar al-Gaddafi, I… Read More ›
Facing the bombs of America and NATO in the Libya Jamahiriya
by Randy Short The public and the people of the world need to know that the corporate media is fabricating a massif of lies concerning the on-the-ground facts of the illegal war against the people of Libya by American and… Read More ›
U.S. Media Imagine Nonexistent Mass Rape in Libya, But are Blind to Mass Murder of Black Africans
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford U.S. media show no remorse for falsely reporting that Libyan soldiers were using rape as a weapon of war, although Amnesty International has “not found any evidence or a single victim of… Read More ›
Germany Joins NATO in Libya
Germany has agreed to supply munitions for the NATO air-strikes in Libya. The move comes despite Berlin not originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in its position. After just over 100 days of… Read More ›
Videos: US and NATO-supported Libyan “Rebels” Lynch Black Libyans
The US Corporate Media, and the US government, continue to methodically hide, from the public, the fact that the Libyan rebels they are supporting have been, and continue to, rape, mutilate and brutally murder Black Africans within Libya. The rebels… Read More ›
Obama’s Speech & the History of “Compromise”
Compromise is a Dirty Word In the circus of bourgeois politics in our two-party electoral system, we often hear a concept fetishized to the highest heavens. The term “bi-partisanship” is a quality of political actors that often surfaces in elections,… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 