The intentional misreading of UN security council resolution 1973 resulted in Nato’s predictably violent Operation Odyssey in Libya last year. Not only did the action cost many thousands of lives and untold destruction, it also paved the way for perpetual conflict – not only in Libya but throughout north Africa. Mali was the first major victim of [...]

Poco antes de suicidarse en 1961, el escritor estadounidense Ernest Hemingway escribió sobre su terapia de electroshock: “Y bien, ¿qué sentido tiene que destruyan mi mente y borren mi memoria, que es mi patrimonio, y quedarme fuera de juego? Ha sido una remedio brillante pero hemos perdido al paciente”. Estas líneas las citaba Naomi Klein en [...]

Después de que por fin cayera el régimen de Gadafi, después de la entrada en la capital, Trípoli, unas pocas voces dispersas se levantaron desde Siria pidiendo que se siga el modelo libio, con la opinión de que tomar las armas y solicitar una intervención militar extranjera es el mejor camino para «hacer caer al [...]

On 13 September, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs opens in London, backed by the British government. On 8 September, the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold a preview entitled “Middle East: A vast market for UK defence and security companies”. The host was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a major investor [...]

Here we go again. The cheering crowds. The deposed dictator. The encomiums to freedom and liberty. The American military as savior. You would think we would have learned in Afghanistan or Iraq. But I guess not. I am waiting for a trucked-in crowd to rejoice as a Gadhafi statue is toppled and Barack Obama lands [...]

Días atrás el corresponsal del periódico londinense The Independent estacionado en Trípoli dio a conocer una serie de documentos que él mismo había hallado en una oficina gubernamental abandonada con toda premura por sus ocupantes. Ese material arroja una luz cegadora para quienes creen que para oponerse y condenar el criminal ataque aéreo de la [...]

At a press conference in Tripoli on Aug. 26, a statement read aloud by top Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj was reassuring. Just a few months ago, disorganized and leaderless rebel fighters seemed to have little chance at ousting Libyan dictator Moammar Ghaddafi and his unruly sons. But despite vague references to “pockets of resistance” [...]

Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi (born 7 June 1942) is a Libyan politician and revolutionary, who has led the Libyan state since he overthrew King Idris in a 1969 bloodless coup and established the Libyan Arab Republic. He went on to survive revolts, military strikes and embargoes while showing a knack for playing to Western interests, namely geopolitical [...]

The Libyan Revolution has largely succeeded, and this is a moment of celebration, not only for Libyans but for a youth generation in the Arab world that has pursued a political opening across the region. The secret of the uprising’s final days of success lay in a popular revolt in the working-class districts of the [...]

Durante el diálogo sostenido con la periodista Andrea Mitchell, a través de la cadena internacional MSNBC, el senador demócrata Ed Markey aseguró que “… Bueno, nosotros estamos en Libia por el petróleo. Igual que Japón lo está por la tecnología nuclear. Y esta dependencia que tenemos por el petróleo, es una necesidad que tiene Estados [...]