Libyan War

NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy

July 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Africa, Colonialism, Imperialism, NATO

by Djibo Sobukwe, published on Black Agenda Report, February 27, 2022 Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a time when African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism. In[…]

AFRICOM: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests

June 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa

by Pavan Kulkarni, published on People’s Dispatch, June 1, 2021 Phoenix Express 2021 (PE21), a 12-day US-Africa Command (AFRICOM)-sponsored military exercise involving 13 states in the Mediterranean Sea, concluded on Friday, May 28. It had kicked off from the naval base in Tunis, Tunisia, on May 16. The drills in this exercise covered naval maneuvers across the stretch of the[…]

Humanitarian Imperialism

March 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Human Rights, Imperialism

by Alan MacLeod, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, March 3, 2021 Aversion to military intervention has been the default position of the left for at least half a century—certainly since the huge protests against the Vietnam War. Washington planners lamented the development of the so-called “Vietnam Syndrome”—a widespread progressive hostility towards US interventions (invasions, bombings, coups or economic[…]

Gaddafi vs The West: 2 Revolutions on The Wrong Side of History

September 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Libya

by Garikai Chengu, from Black Agenda Report, September 25, 2019 Gaddafi’s revolution created one of the 21st century’s most profoundly successful experiments in economic democracy. “The West’s objective was to oust Gaddafi, install a puppet regime, and gain control of Libya’s natural resources.” This month marks half a century since Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan revolution, which led to the overthrow of[…]

Libya Is Home to a 21st-Century Slave Market

November 28, 2017 UNAC Editor Collapsed States

Libya Is Home to a 21st-Century Slave Market and the UN Security Council Won’t Act CNN recently aired a powerful report from Libya, where the reporters went into a house and shot footage of an auction of human beings. Yes, this is a 21st-century slave market. The journalists – Nima Elbagir, Raja Razek, Alex Platt and Bryony Jones – brought[…]