NATO Warns Rebels Against Attacking Civilians

from New York Times Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, according to senior military and government officials. As NATO takes over control of airstrikes in Libya and the Obama administration considers new steps to tip [...]

NATO rules out arming Libyan rebels

from the Harold Sun THE NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said today the alliance was opposed to arming the Libyan rebels fighting against Muammar Gaddafi. Rasmussen said the alliance, which formally took command of the operation in Libya today, was in the country to protect Libyans, not arm them. “As far as NATO is concerned, [...]

Obama Apologist Ed Schultz Get’s His Talking Points from John McCain: Calls Libyan al Qaeda “Freedom Fighters”

At the end of this debate, Schultz had been claiming that he “supports the president” to go after Gadhafi because 1. he “killed US citizens” and 2. because there is a “coalition” backed by a UN resolution. When Scahill asks what about Obama using cruise missiles to kill civilians in Yemen back in 2009 with [...]

Fox News Promotes Arming the “Terrorists” While McCain Suggests Gadhafi is Worse than al Qaeda

(In America, post 9/11, you can be arrested and detained indefinitely for contributing money to a charity that is supposed to have ties, albeit 6th degree of separation ties, to terrorist organizations… yet now that it is coming out and is undeniable that the “rebels’ in Libya are made up of CIA backed and funded fighters [...]

Libya: US Spent Over a Quarter of a Billion Dollars for Cruise Missiles

al Jazeera Ahead of a NATO press conference expected tomorrow, where the 28-member military alliance will outline its operations, the office of the US secretary of defense has said: In the last 24 hours: – the Coalition and US have conducted a total of 188 sorties – 102 of these were “strike” sorties (61 by [...]

Washington in Fierce Debate on Arming Libyan Rebels

Mark Landler, New York Times The Obama administration is engaged in a fierce debate over whether to supply weapons to the rebels in Libya, senior officials said on Tuesday, with some fearful that providing arms would deepen American involvement in a civil war and that some fighters may have links to Al Qaeda. The debate [...]

Bahrain: Wounded Protesters Beaten, Detained

from Human Rights Watch Bahraini authorities are systematically targeting demonstrators and bystanders wounded in anti-government protests for harassment and mistreatment, and in some cases denying them critical care, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the Bahraini Defense Force (BDF) took over the country’s largest public medical facility on March 16, 2011, security and military forces [...]

Clinton To Congress: Obama Would Ignore Your War Resolutions

Update: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), who asked Clinton about the War Powers Act during a classified briefing, said Clinton and the administration are sidestepping the measure’s provisions giving Congress the ability to put a 60-day time limit on any military action. “They are not committed to following the important part of the War Powers Act,” [...]

If Sec. Clinton Arms Libyan Rebels She is in Violation the of Law

by Scott Creighton Breaking UPDATE  2: We “conspiracy theorists” have been saying that this is just another CIA/MI6 backed coup being run under the cover of legitimate revolutions through out Africa and the Middle East. Syria is the same thing. Turns out we’ve been right all along.  Suck on that Juan Cole. “Preventive intervention” my [...]

Breaking News: Iranian Living Room Design Revealed

Let’s hope Glenn Beck doesn’t get a hold of this. (click on image for larger view of the diabolical Iranian living room)

Regime Change Libya: Privatization of their Central Bank and the Theft of their Nationalized Oil Profits

by Scott Creighton (I couldn’t resist) “Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, I’ll piss on em that’s what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses, let’s club em to death get it over with and dump them on the boulevard” Lou Reed   There is no question anymore as to why [...]

The Collapse of Globalization

(I have to take today to finish a project I have been working on for someone. If I could, I would like to recomend this article from Chris Hedges published on TruthDig this week. Though it is my well publicized opinion that he is incorrect about Global Warming (now rebranded for obvious reasons as “climate [...]

From the Gulf War to the War on North Africa: On the True Meaning of Democracy

by Cynthia McKinney, Global Research (excerpt) … The reason Muammar Qaddafi is a target is because he has been a thorn in the side of anti-revolutionary forces since he took power in Libya, overthrowing the King and nationalizing the oil industry so that the people could benefit from their oil resources. Libya ‘s Revolution brought [...]

A CIA commander for the Libyan rebels

(H/T Empire Strikes Black) by Patrick Martin, WSWS 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 the Libyan army, was reported by McClatchy Newspapers Thursday and [...]

The Precedent is Set with Libya – Let’s Go “Coalition” Syria… for Humanitarian Reasons, of course

Thank you President Peace Prize. Now all the neocon warmongers are citing humanitarian reasons to attack any other nation in the Middle East that we don’t like. Now all we need is a Syrian version of Neda/Eman and Obama and the peace loving “progressives” will jump on that bandwagon as well.