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Show Trials in Benghazi
Benghazi, LIBYA — An affable gentleman, “Mahmoud” ushered this observer into the Benghazi People’s Court (Mahkamat al-Sha’b) and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where on December 19, 2006, the…
Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum: Self-Promoting Interests
I did not catch as much of this forum as I would have liked, but if what I saw was indicative of the whole affair, then it was mainly a…
Bad Moon Rising Over Great Sirte Bay
Sirte, LIBYA– This observer, with his sandaled feet comfortably dug into the sand of a chilly Mediterranean beach and huddled next to a camp fire with a congenial and bright…
Choke point Bab el-Mandeb; Understanding the Strategically Critical Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is one of the most strategically critical regions in the world with the narrow passage where the Red Sea joins the Indian Ocean, the Bab el-Mandeb,…
Libya: A Very Long War over Competing Energy Interests
The Arab Spring has shattered the illusion of impunity that surrounded heads of state of various dictatorial regimes. After Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, it was…
All Reconstruction is Local: Using Local Governance to Bring Peace to Postconflict Countries
Download the Full Report (PDF) Establishing democratic governance in postconflict countries is the trillion-dollar-challenge of the twenty-first century. The international community has no shortage of attempts at democratic governance but…
Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO’s Libya
The “new Libya” has entered its own “Terror” which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as “disappearance squads”. This…
Global Revolution After Tahrir Square
This history-making global Occupy Movement with a presence in over 900 cities would not have happened in form and substance without the revolutionary awakening of the world’s youth that resulted…
Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel
On the edge of the Sahel, Niger — “Sahel” in Arabic means “coast” or “shoreline.” Unless one was present 5,000 years ago when, according to anthropologists, our planet’s first cultivation…
Libya’s Curse of Black and White
Libya has been a conflict painted in two immiscible colors; the resulting canvas creating a messy but polarizing dichotomy, a “you’re either with us or against us” mentality. Its complexities…
‘Islamists’ on Probation: Western Reaction to Tunisian Elections
Following Tunisia’s first fair and free elections on October 27, the Western media responded with a characteristic sense of fear and alarm. For many, it seemed that the ghost of…
Spring in the Arabian Desert
Since the outbreak of peaceful protests against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia in December last year, popular rebellions against authoritarian rule have swept the Arab world. Extraordinary…
Lies Behind Lies Behind the ‘Humanitarian War’ in Libya
dondebar — This document makes it possible to understand how international law and justice works, but mostly how its basic principles can be bypassed. The resolutions passed against Lybia are…
Libya After Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Execution
The death of the despised despot who ruled Libya for forty-two years naturally produced celebrations throughout the country. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s end was bloody and vindictive, but we should remember that his…
Revulsion, Resistance, and Angry Words from Tripoli University
TRIPOLI — The people I had most hoped to be able to find on returning to Libya were eight students from Fatah University (now renamed Tripoli University) who became my…
Obama helps Uganda, does what’s morally right
The tentacles of the United States of America’s military extend to all corners of the world. On 14 October, United States President Barack Obama informed Congress that he dispatched about…
Targeted for assassination by NATO? Will Seif al Islam Gadhafi survive to have his day in court?
During the late evening of October 20, the White House, the Office of the Secretary of State, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Libyan Embassy in Washington, DC…
The End of History
Now that the CIA’s proxy army has murdered Gadhafi, what next for Libya? If Washington’s plans succeed, Libya will become another American puppet state. Most of the cities, towns, and…
Gaddafi, Imperialism and Western Hypocrisy
David Cameron’s statement regarding the killing of Moammar al-Gaddafi will go down as another piece of brash hypocrisy, which would be breathtaking if it was not so expected from the…
Liberia: No-bel for President, No-water for residents
The most likely ex-President of Liberia has been given a share of one of the western world’s most prestigious awards, the Nobel Peace Prize; yet the residents of the capital…
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