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, by LUCAS Scott
One family’s ambition contributed to the fate of the city in eastern Libya.
In the early hours of September 11, residents of Derna in north-east Libya woke to the sound of loud explosions. After more than a decade of conflict – initially between the Gaddafi regime and local factions, then (...)
, by MEGERISI Tarek
When a natural disaster hits, it’s as if the planet itself has turned against you. Every element of human experience ceases to make sense. This is the situation in Libya, after Storm Daniel arrived on the evening of Sept. 10, resulting in flooding so extreme that tens of thousands are feared (...)
, by North African organizations
On the night of September 10-11, a deadly storm devastated eastern Libya. More than 5,000 people perished and around 10,000 others are missing, according to recent information provided by local authorities.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing (...)
, by WINTOUR Patrick
Attorney general asked to investigate amid allegations warnings ignored about dangerous state of two dams
Libya’s attorney general has been asked by senior politicians to launch an urgent inquiry into the catastrophic floods that have killed tens of thousands of people, including into (...)
Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants in Libya are trapped in a vicious cycle of cruelty with little to no hope of finding safe and legal pathways out, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. After enduring unconscionable suffering in Libya, refugees and migrants risk (...)
, by SHUPAK Greg
Western-led military interventions aren’t motivated by humanitarian concerns.
The title of Horace Campbell’s book on NATO’s 2011 Libyan intervention, Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya, is an allusion to a Guardian article by Seumas Milne entitled, “If the Libyan war was (...)
, by Correspondent(s)
Libyan activist responds to UN envoy’s claims that gays are a threat to humanity.
A leading gay activist in Libya has responded to his country’s delegate who told a planning meeting of the UN Human Rights Council that gays threatened the continuation of the human race.
As Gay Star News (...)
, by SOGUEL Dominique
Libya’s long-awaited declaration of liberation excluded female voices and raised questions about how the tide might turn on matters of family law. The country’s interim leader faced immediate backlash for endorsing a return to unrestricted polygamy.
(WOMENSENEWS)—The mood couldn’t have been (...)
, by WLUML
Women Living Under Muslim Laws Statement on Libya
25 October 2011
WLUML is deeply concerned that the first public act of the Libya’s National Transition Committee has been to proclaim on October 23rd, 2011, that henceforth, a number of laws will be considered annulled and that ’sharia law’ (...)
, by BENNIS Phyllis
The death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will likely — though it’s too early to know anything for sure — mean the end of the current stage of Libya’s civil war. Whether it will set the stage for peace, national reconciliation, democracy, normalization with the region or other goals is far (...)
, by Correspondent(s)
A RECENT editorial SocialistWorker.org editorial (“Who really won in Libya”) suggested that it was NATO that, in fact, won the revolution in Libya, not the Libyan people. From here in Tripoli, it seems that that judgment is rushed. There are a number of points that should be understood about (...)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, WEARING David
As was the case with his earlier articles for ZNet on the situation in Libya, our recent interview with Professor Gilbert Achcar of SOAS elicited a good deal of responses, both in the comments under the article and from commentators elsewhere. Here, NLP’s David Wearing asks Achcar a series of (...)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
Gilbert Achcar – who considers that the title of this article is distorting his point of view – has answered Richard Seymour’s arguments here: After Gaddafi (ESSF, article 22765).
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A quote from Achcar’s interview:
At the onset of NATO’s Operation Unified (...)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, MILLS Tom
Gilbert Achcar is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of a number of books on global politics, imperialism and the Middle East, most recently The Arabs and the Holocaust: The (...)
, by FISK Robert
Doomed always to fight the last war, we are recommitting the same old sin in Libya.
Muammar Gaddafi vanishes after promising to fight to the death. Isn’t that just what Saddam Hussein did? And of course, when Saddam disappeared and US troops suffered the very first losses from the Iraqi (...)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, GOODMAN Amy
Libyan rebels have consolidated their grip on the capital of Tripoli by capturing Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s main compound, but the whereabouts of the Libyan leader remain unknown, and he has vowed his forces would resist “the aggression with all strength” until either victory or death. Reporters (...)
Another dictator is being toppled in North Africa—but the regime that will replace his will be beholden to imperialist powers that don’t care at all about democracy.
THE REIGN of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi seems to be coming to an end after anti-government fighters backed by NATO (...)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot— the aptly named neoconservative author and military historian known for his support for “democracy promotion” at the point of a gun, and an ardent supporter of full-scale US military engagement in Libya—referred to a (...)
, by AMIN Samir
Libya is neither Tunisia nor Egypt. The ruling group (Gaddafi) and the forces fighting it are in no way analogous to their Tunisian and Egyptian counterparts. Gaddafi has never been anything but a buffoon, whose emptiness of thought was reflected in his notorious ‘Green Book’. Operating in a (...)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
The fact Gaddafi has survived the rebellions and Nato bombing undermines the simplistic view of a hated tyrant clinging on.
The war on Libya has not gone well. Kim Sengupta’s report on Wednesday detailed this starkly:
"Fresh diplomatic efforts are under way to try to end Libya’s bloody (...)
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