Libya is Imploding Into Chaos And Violence
World View: Its government has no real power; militias are ever more entrenched, and now the state itself is under threat
View ArticleLibya Is A Disaster We Helped Create
Today's Libya is overrun by militias and faces a deteriorating human rights situation
View ArticleThe fruit of Nato’s war in Libya
The dire consequences of the west's intervention are being felt today in Tripoli and across Africa, from Mali to Nigeria
View ArticleLibya: A Cautionary Tale
Beset by infighting among militias and rampant arms trafficking, Libya in 2014 is a cautionary tale about the long-term consequences of military intervention
View ArticleUS, NATO and the Destruction of Libya
NATO claimed that its intervention in Libya was a historic success. But three years later, Libya is in complete chaos
View ArticleOur Seas: End of Mare Nostrum Spells Death in the Mediterranean
“Here we are, once again, in front of another tragedy, weeping for children who died in search of a future"
View ArticleThe Disaster in Libya
If leftists want to build alternatives to global capitalism, we must recognize that claims to internationalism are worse than meaningless when they enable imperialist bloodbaths
View ArticleA Somalia on the Mediterranean
The Islamic State in Libya is not merely a Libyan problem but a regional one
View ArticleLibya: The battlefield of the New Arab Cold War
The only way to tackle the “Islamic State” in Libya is to produce a political process
View ArticlePaying the price of a failed Libya
Amid chaos caused by mismanagement, intervention, international rivalries and civil war, ordinary people who hoped for a better Libya are dying
View ArticleTrapped in Libya: the flotsam of the West’s wars
The US continues to see merit in the violence in Syria (by training new fighters), but has only taken in 546 Syrian refugees. This is an object lesson in hypocrisy
View ArticleGaddafi and the failure of the International Criminal Court
The Libyan war was never about human rights. If it were, the West would not be so scrupulous in its desire to trample on them
View ArticleTormenting Libya
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s sentence marks the latest episode of the secret war that Western powers have waged against Libya for more than three decades
View Article‘Islamic State’ Pretence and the Upcoming Wars in Libya
Another war is in the making in Libya: the questions are ‘how’ and ‘when’?
View ArticleThe detritus of regime change in Libya
Four years ago, as NATO prepared to bomb Libya, I asked a senior Western diplomat if he thought the experience of Iraq would inform this adventure. After all, regime change in Iraq had resulted in...
View ArticleFrom Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves”
ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington, London and Paris who, in conspiring to destroy Iraq, Syria and Libya, committed an epic crime against humanity
View ArticleDescent into Chaos
Militias have had a free run of the country and the entry of the I.S. has only led to a worsening of the violence, arson and mayhem that have been the order of the day
View ArticleIt’s Bombs Away for the USA in Libya
Almost guaranteed to spread more misery across North Africa
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