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Brasileiros visitarão a Líbia
In These New Times

Agua Verde 12th August, 2011 Um grupo de políticos e ativistas sociais brasileiros embarca neste domingo (14) rumo à Líbia, atendendo a convite do dos Comitês Populares líbios. O convite faz parte de esforços do governo líbio para envolver o Brasil, membro rotativo do Conselho de Segurança da ONU, na pressão pelo fim dos ataques criminosos da Otan (aliança militar ocidental). Entre os convidados estão os deputados Brizola Neto (PDT-RJ), cujo avô, Leonel Brizola, conheceu Kadafi, e Protógenes Queiroz (PCdoB-SP), membro da Comissão de Constituição e Justiça. Também integram a comitiva o escritor Mario Augusto Jakobskind, o advogado Felipe Boni de Castro, e de Curitiba, a militante feminista Alzimara Bacellar, entre outros. “Queremos que a delegação brasileira veja com os próprios olhos as atrocidades cometidas pela Otan”, disse o embaixador da Líbia no Brasil, Salem Zubeidi. A programação, que deve durar uma semana, inclui visitas aos hospitais de Trípoli onde são tratados os

Rusuhan di London – British baru tahu dia merdeka, kah kah kah.
INNERBLOG

England, terutama London, adalah sebuah kotaraya yang dipandang oleh ramai sebagai kota yang bertamadun. Sekarang selepas rusuhan terburuk di London semenjak 1985 kerajaan Tories dibawah David Cameron yang memerintah sebuah kerjaan campuran diperli kiri kanan, dari rakan dan lawan. Russia : “Rusuhan itu satu balasan tuhan untuk memberitahu dunia bahawa kerajaan Britain sebuah kerajaan hiporkrit dari barat”. Ada poskad dari kawan baik England semasa perang Iraq, Amerika, saya muatturun dibawah ini:- Kawan baik semasa perang, pun cakap macam itu. Poskad itu ditambah dengan p.s-nya;- Kah kah kah, Robert Mugabe pun perli. Kan dia tu asyik kena tekan habis oleh Britain kerana merampas tanah orang kulit putih. Dia berkata “Doh, tidak usah lah ganggu kami lagi, jaga lah keadaan dalam negara awak dulu”. Lagi hebat. Gaddafi, pemimpin Libya yang setiap hari disuruh letak jawatan sebagai pemimpin Libya oleh David Cameron setiap hari, berkata, “David, rusuhan kaum di

Impunity Gap: Syria
Global Transitional Justice
Libya War:Libyan rebels hold funeral for dead soldiers in fight for Brega + Related News
Laaska News http://laaska.wordpress.com (laaskanews.com)

Laaska News  August 13,2011 BENGHAZI, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Libyan rebels held a funeral on Friday in Liberation Square in Benghazi for those who died in the fight for Brega. The rebels lost 11 men on the eastern front of Libya’s war in the past day, fighting to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at Brega on the Mediterranean coast, Libyan TV quoted hospital sources as saying. Sources at a hospital in Ajdabiyah, northeast of Brega, said about 50 were wounded Thursday and Friday, and one civilian in the all-but-deserted town was killed when a rocket fired by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces hit a house. The wounded had been taken to the residential zone of New Brega, which is 15 km from the terminal and port area.  Xinhua. . Libya insurgents gain ground   A spokesman for anti-government forces in Libya says that more areas have come under their control. The spokesman announced on Friday that fighters seeking the ouster of leader Muammar al-Qadhafi have captured the e

U.N. Condemns Mounting Civilian Deaths In Libya
Foreign Policy 4 U

This article written by Joshua Hersh originally appeared on HuffingtonPost.com on August 12, 2011.   The United Nations is growing increasingly vocal in its concerns about civilian casualties and other collateral damage in the ongoing conflict in Libya. On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon offered some of his strongest remarks yet on the subject, saying through a spokesperson that he was “deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties.” “The Secretary-General calls on all parties to exercise extreme caution in their actions, in order to minimize any further loss of civilian life,” the statement said. Ban’s remarks came just a few days after another U.N. official strongly condemned a controversial NATO airstrike targeting the headquarters of Libyan State TV, in an attack that Libyan officials say resulted in the deaths of journalists and civilians. “I deplore the NATO strike on Al-Jamahiriya and its inst

Under NATO’s Flag: an Interim Assessment of the Mission in Libya (Part Three)
M. Ulric Killion's space

Pro-Gaddafi demonstrators in Green Square in Tripoli, Libya (Source: AP). By Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor, Vol. 8, Iss. 153, Aug 9, 2011 — As in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Western coalition intervened in Libya with only a weak grasp of the local society. The coalition underestimated the resilience of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s base of social support in the country’s west. It seemed blindsided by the complexity of tribal dynamics among its suddenly acquired protégés in the country’s east. In that polarized context, the allies misjudged the level of force necessary for a quick success of their intervention. This proved insufficient for short-term victory over Gaddafi, but only sufficient to shore up the rebels, thus producing a stalemate between the internal forces, and escalation of the civil war. This in turn necessitated escalation of air bombing, with further damage to infrastructure. The coalition did not adequately check the rebels before arming and funding them. Initial

NATO to declare war on Syria next?
Future Dispatch

NATO isn’t stopping with Libya where an extensive air campaign against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has failed to achieve any meaningful objectives and has resulted in a stalemate. The daily bombing regime, which has also resulted in the death of civilians, is racking up a hefty price tag that NATO countries can nowhere near afford during economic collapse Syria may be next. A former French air chief named Jean Rannou provided an outline of what a NATO strike on Syria would entail. Nato member countries would begin by using satellite technology to spot Syrian air defences. A few days later, warplanes, in larger numbers than Libya, would take off from the UK base in Cyprus and spend some 48 hours destroying Syrian surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and jets. Alliance aircraft would then start an open-ended bombardment of Syrian tanks and ground troops, according to EUobserver.com. By the time generals start revealing this information to the press, the decision to pull the trigger on

From the McKinney Diaries…More precious MCKinney Moments
Questioning With Boldness...

Here at QwB we “love” Cynthia McKinney ex-United States Representative (D-Ga.) current crack-pot “fete e” of the terrorist regimes in the Middle Waste…er…East… Well “love” may be a misnomer, we “love” to tell our readers about her anti-American rhetoric that she spreads around liberally to places like Libya, Iran and seemingly any other enemy of the United States who will pay her way…(question by Maggie @ Maggies Notebook, “who IS paying for her many trips and stays around the known terrorists regimes in the world). Maybe we should start playing “Where in the Terrorist World is Cynthia McKinney?” We last saw her dressed up in her Princess Leia (African princess wannabe) outfit in Libya sitting on her imaginary throne (did you see that chair?); presumably off camera her “hand-boys” were fanning her with huge feathers & keeping the grapes cold for the litter ride back to her paid in

Networks of Informers 7 – Does Barack Obama have a ‘Multiple Civilian Casualty Policy’ in dealing with terrorism?
Rajiva Wijesinha

US President Barack Obama, right,and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pictured during the G8/G5 summit in L'Aquila, Italy Thursday July 9, 2009. The double standards endemic in international reporting of conflict is apparent in the manner in which Sri Lankan officials are turned into witnesses against the Sri Lankan state whenever they say things that go against the standard view of Sri Lankan officials. We are co-opted as it were into temporary membership of the network of informers the nastier elements in the international community have set up, if we declare that there were civilian casualties during the conflict. This is never treated as a statement, but is rather almost always described as an admission. This makes no sense except in terms of a discourse redolent with preconceived prejudices. In itself the existence of civilian casualties in modern warfare is not something surprising, but what occurs in Sri Lanka has necessarily to be accompanied by finger pointing. When it happe

Weekly Round-Up: August 8-12
ICRtoP Blog

Your top stories from the world of #RtoP, #MAPrev, and #CivPro. Find us on Twitter and Facebook. Syria Today, Al Jazeera reported that 17 people have been killed across the country as Bashar al-Assad’s security forces fired on protestors after Friday prayers. In response to the violence last week in Hama, and as Syrian security forces continued taking military action against protesters across the country, international pressure on the regime ratcheted up over the course of the week. Today, US Secretary of State urged those countries that still support the Assad regime to “get on the right side of history.” The United States and the European Union also reinforced economic sanctions against the Assad regime. Gulf States also broke their silence over the regime’s crackdown and joined efforts to isolate Assad, as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain all recalled their diplomatic envoys from Syria. Diplomatic envoys have also been dispatched over the course of the week: Turkey sent its Foreign