Libya

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama Hosts International Debut for Libya’s Racist and Thoroughly Non-Revolutionary Regime
21 Sep 2011
The United States and the corporate media would have you believe that President Obama and the U.S. corporate media are celebrating the triumph of a “revolution” in Libya.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Libya City Said to Fall to Rebel Siege
17 Aug 2011
Western-backed rebels have made good their vow to “purge slaves, black skin,” with their reported capture of Tawurgha, a black Libyan city, after a long siege. Elsewhere, just 30 miles from the…
Gerald A. Perreira
A Defining Moment for Africa: North Atlantic Terrorists Will Be Defeated in Libya
20 Jul 2011
The Euro-Americans of NATO don’t seem so confident, anymore, about driving Moammar Gaddafi’s government into oblivion.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Lynch Law and Summary Executions in Rebel-Held Libya
06 Apr 2011
“The world’s most imperial-dependent, ill-disciplined and whining ‘liberation movement’ is still blaming black ‘mercenaries’ and soldiers from Chad for its failures in the field.” Chad, meanwhi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s Imperial Twist: “Humanitarian” Regime Change in Libya
23 Mar 2011
President Obama demanded regime change in Libya more than three weeks ago, but now acts as if that’s not his policy.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama’s War in Libya
23 Mar 2011
The continuity between the Bush and Obama administration’s is now complete.
Gerald A. Perreira
Coalition of Crusaders Join with al Qaeda to Oust Qaddafi and Roll Back Libyan Revolution
23 Mar 2011
The West – the former colonial powers and the United States – have not only coordinated their assault on Libya, but orchestrated the rebellion against Col. Qaddafi from the start, says the author.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
UPDATE: The American Dilemma in Libya: To Bomb, Invade, Partition, Or All of the Above
18 Mar 2011
UPDATED: As Khadafi’s forces prepare to encircle the rebel stronghold at Benghazi, western media remain curiously unable to “provide a coherent overview of rebel politics, beyond a
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Race and Arab Nationalism in Libya
09 Mar 2011
Although a reawakened Arab nationalism “represents a catastrophe for U.S. imperialism,” the conflict in Libya dramatically exposes an “endemic” racism in the North African Maghreb.
Al Jazzeera
African Migrants Targeted in Libya
02 Mar 2011
from Al Jazeera