World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/04/19

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West Exacerbates Libyans' Suffering

By Doug Bandow

The allies have joined the insurgents in a civil war against the previously recognized government. The path is war and all that entails: death, destruction, and chaos.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27921.htm



French want troops on ground in Libya

A senior French official says soldiers should be deployed on the ground in Libya to help guide NATO s air strikes in support of the Libyan opposition.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/73292/french-want-troops-on-ground-in-libya



Libya: blood bonanza for contractors

Libya might soon turn into a goldmine for private security firms. Reports say that the UK is already hiring mercenaries to protect the interests of the big corporations there.

http://mathaba.net/news/?x=626467


From Information Clearing House

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The energy vampires

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

04/20/11

To hear the 'humanitarian' interventionists tell it, the NATO alliance is currently bombing Libya in order to avert an alleged 'massacre' that may - or may not - happen if Moammar Gadhafi gets his hands on the rebels now holding the eastern province known as Cyrenaica. It s just a coincidence that Libya is a major oil producer, and that the NATO allies demanding the dictator s ouster are thirsty for the stuff. If you believe otherwise, well then you have fallen victim to a 'conspiracy theory,' as any number of unrepentant neocons will tell you...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/04/19/the-energy-vampires/



US military s footprint too big

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
by Charles Pena

04/19/11

The speed with which U.S. military forces were able to begin combat operations in Libya last month, following the president s order to intervene in the unfolding civil war, is a tribute to the professionalism and combat readiness of the U.S. armed forces. But it also should give us great pause. Unless the United States has been attacked, military intervention should be a very difficult, sobering decision requiring painstaking reflection. The trouble is: with U.S. forces now deployed all over the globe, military intervention has become too easy. If it wasn't so easy perhaps we would do less of it...

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/-296964--.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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