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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
“As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that… Read More ›
by Michel Chossudovsky At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive fallout over… Read More ›
Self-described Hiphopraganda-ist Sun Rise Above is one of the more distinguished left-wing artists gaining ascendancy in the underground scene. His new album Every Day I Wake Up On the Wrong Side of Capitalism (2011) gives a clear picture of what… Read More ›
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 ›
By Patrick Martin The Libyan National Council, the Benghazi-based group that speaks for the rebel forces fighting the Gaddafi regime, has appointed a long-time CIA collaborator to head its military operations. The selection of Khalifa Hifter, a former colonel in… Read More ›
Reprinted from Final Call newspaper By Askia Muhammad – Senior Correspondent Photos by The Red Phoenix WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) – Buoyed by what they cite as reports from military analysts as well as rebel forces in Libya, hundreds of protestors organized… Read More ›
UN Ambassador Rice reportedly had said drug was being used in systematic rapes UNITED NATIONS — There is no evidence that Libyan military forces are being given Viagra and engaging in systematic rape against women in rebel areas, US military… Read More ›
By Colin Benjamin Misrata Ethnically Cleansed of Blacks Says Wall Street Journal… The implication is bewildering. Could it be true the Libyan “rebels”—who we’re told are fighting to protect innocent civilians—are now committing mass murder, lynching and terrorizing Black Libyans… Read More ›
ADDIS ABABA — While much of the world’s attention is focusing on crude oil prices and the Libyan pipelines in the east of the country– human right groups say rebels are committing crimes against humanity. In east Libya, African hunt… Read More ›
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