Tag: Libya
The Obama Wars
Jul 11, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Obama’s legacy of warmaking has largely been maintained, advanced, and imitated by bipartisan consensus and by Donald Trump.
Read MoreObama: Front Man for Washington’s Imperialism
Jul 9, 2019 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Obama was very much aware that he was fronting for the ruling establishment as he waged mass atrocities to enforce Washington’s hegemony over the world.
Read MoreExporting Dictators
Apr 12, 2019 | Viewpoints, Americas, Politics, US
Washington sure does support a lot of dictators for a government that likes to talk so much about expanding democracy.
Read MoreFrom Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees
Dec 6, 2018 | Viewpoints, Americas, Middle East, Politics, US
Refugees escaping to the US or Europe are perceived as the invaders, rather than the US and its allies who’ve helped cause the reasons for their flight.
Read MoreLest We Forget, One of Washington’s Greatest Crimes: the NATO Intervention in Libya
Sep 29, 2018 | Viewpoints, Europe, Middle East, Politics, US
Muammar Gaddafi warned the US and its NATO partners that overthrowing him would result in a flood of refugees and emigrants into Europe. They didn’t listen.
Read MoreEurope’s Iron Curtain: The Refugee Crisis is about to Worsen
Jul 10, 2018 | Viewpoints, Africa, Europe, Politics
As long as Europe continues to approach the refugee crisis without addressing its root causes, the crisis will continue to grow.
Read MoreEnd the Wars to Halt the Refugee Crisis
Jun 19, 2018 | Viewpoints, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Politics
If European politicians continue to ignore the root causes of the problem, the refugee crisis is going to persist unabated.
Read MoreTop 100 Reasons Not to Bomb Iran
May 2, 2018 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics, US
“If bombing nations made people better off and created human rights, earth would be a paradise by now”, and ninety-nine other reasons for the US and its partners not to bomb Iran…
Read More“Fake news” is fake news.
Feb 12, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The main problem with the media today, as earlier, is what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
Read MoreThe Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
Jan 25, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The legacy of Dr. King, as presented in mainstream media, has become about the whitewashing of a racist, militaristic and materialistic system, although King himself championed the exact opposite.
Read MoreTrump’s National Security Speech
Dec 20, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The American people, regardless of who they elect, have no voice, no input, no representation. An oligarchy rules, and Trump has become nothing more than its mouthpiece.
Read MoreFake News a US Media Specialty
Aug 9, 2017 | Viewpoints, Economy & Business, US
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ last job report and the mainstream media’s coverage of it is a good example of fake news.
Read MoreU.S. War Justification Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Jun 28, 2017 | US, Politics, Viewpoints
Belief in war lies is an addiction, and people get hooked not so much because of the quality of the lies, but a predisposition to believe them.
Read MoreCould Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Solve the Libya Crisis?
Feb 10, 2017 | News & Analysis, Africa, Politics
US President Donald Trump has a unique chance to fix the mess in Libya by backing Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam as head of state.
Read MoreThe Uncomfortable Truth: Are We Hating Donald Trump for the Wrong Reasons?
Feb 10, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The hypocrisy of criticizing Trump on the axiomatic assumption that that the warmakers who preceded him were peacemakers is simply too much to bear.
Read MoreThe Western Demonization of Muslims
Jan 13, 2017 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics
The foreign policy of the US and its Western allies is premised in large part upon prejudices against people of different race, ethnicity, or religion.
Read MoreHillary’s War Crime
Oct 24, 2016 | Viewpoints, Africa, Politics, US
Hillary Clinton was a key architect of the disastrous NATO intervention in Libya and is a war criminal under international law.
Read MoreDamned Nations, Cursed Arms Trade
Oct 4, 2016 | Viewpoints, Africa, Middle East, Reviews
Samantha Nutt in her book Damned Nations describes a root cause of war that the wealthy of the world could easily eliminate.
Read MoreWar to ‘stop’ war: Libya’s ‘Operation Odyssey Lightning’
Aug 20, 2016 | Viewpoints, Africa, Politics, US
The Obama Doctrine is Ravaging the Middle East
Read MoreBombing Libya Won’t Solve the Problem, It Is the Problem
Aug 5, 2016 | News & Analysis, Africa, Politics, US
Foreign Policy Journal publisher and editor Jeremy R. Hammond discusses the US airstrikes in Libya with Press TV.
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