From NATO’s war in Libya to Italy’s courts: The imperialist web behind Al-Masri’s release
Italy’s actions are indicative of a systemic issue where legal technicalities are exploited to shield individuals who serve imperialist agendas.
•Marc Wells
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Lockerbie: A Search for Truth: TV series dramatises Lockerbie relatives’ campaign for justice
A powerful new TV series recounts Lockerbie relative and campaigner Jim Swire’s dedicated struggle for the truth behind his daughter’s 1988 murder in the downing of PA103.
•Steve James
Further evidence of UK special forces war crimes in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria
Only the inquiry team and representatives from the Ministry of Defence have been allowed to attend the closed hearings, preventing the lawyers for the bereaved families, the general public, and the press from observing the proceedings.
•Harvey Thompson
Survivors and families of the victims of Manchester Arena bombing to sue MI5
This is the first case of its kind against the intelligence service and threatens to unravel a massive state cover-up.
•Margot Miller, Robert Stevens
Former US ambassador Ryan Crocker: Nearly every Arab state has long viewed the Palestinians with “fear and loathing”
Crocker is in a position to know. Beginning his diplomatic career with a posting in the US consulate in the inland port city of Khorramshahr, near Iran’s oilfields, in 1972 during the Shah’s reign, he later served in Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Kuwait.
•Jean Shaoul
After protests in flood-hit Derna, Libyan officials order journalists to leave
There are growing signs in the region that the eastern Libyan authorities are preparing a bloody crackdown against protests in Derna.
•Alex Lantier
US imperialist hypocrisy and the Libyan flood
Condolences from Obama and Biden cannot cover up their responsibility for the US-NATO war which devastated Libya and set the stage for the death of at least 20,000 in flood-ravaged Derna.
•Patrick Martin
Libyan officials warn Derna flood death toll could reach 20,000
The failure to maintain basic infrastructure and to prepare emergency response policies, flowing from the 2011 NATO war in Libya that plunged the country into an ongoing 12-year civil war, has exacted a horrific human cost.
•Alex Lantier
Death toll rises in Greece as flooding devastates Thessaly region
Sixteen people have been declared dead following the flash floods which hit Greece early last week. With a fifth of all arable land on the Thessaly plain under water, the economic devastation wrought counts in the billions of euros.
•John Vassilopoulos
NATO imperialism and the Libya flood catastrophe
The failure of critical infrastructure in the Libyan city of Derna, which has claimed thousands of lives, is the product of the 2011 NATO war against Libya.
•Alex Lantier
Thousands dead and 10,000 missing in Libyan floods
Reports say one quarter of the city of Derna, home to well over 100,000 people, has been totally swept away.
•Thomas Scripps
Social protests in Syria as US tightens net around Iran and its allies
That conditions across Syria are dire is indisputable, but primary responsibility for this rests with US imperialism and its European counterparts.
•Jean Shaoul
West African states step back from immediate military action against Niger due to popular opposition
The threat of war remains, driven by the global conflict between the imperialist powers and Russia and China erupting in different flashpoints and via various proxies across the globe.
•Thomas Scripps
Greek government tries to deny responsibility for hundreds of migrant drownings
Authorities have recovered 78 bodies so far, but reports suggest 500-750 people were on board and only 104 survivors have been found, more than 24 hours later. One told a doctor, “About 100 children are in the hold.”
•Thomas Scripps
Manchester Arena bombing inquiry delivers cover-up “in the national interest”
The 22-year-old bomber, Salman Abedi, worked with Islamist fighters who were trained, armed, and financed by the British state and NATO to topple Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and install a puppet regime.
•Laura Tiernan
Libyan citizen kidnapped and flown to US to face Lockerbie charges
A 71-year-old Libyan, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, appeared in a US federal court in Washington D.C. to face charges related to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Mas'ud has effectively been kidnapped and subjected to extraordinary rendition.
•Steve James
Imperialist powers hold Libya “peace” conference, 10 years after NATO war
The same powers professing their commitment to Libyan “self-determination” plunged what was previously among Africa’s wealthiest countries into a bloody civil war.
•Will Morrow
UN catalogues Libya war crimes, ignoring their source
While the fact-finding mission’s report presents a horrific account of conditions in Libya, it is silent about the 2011 war of aggression that gave rise to them.
•Bill Van Auken
On the 10th anniversary of Libyan war, the New York Times covers up crimes of imperialism
The Times is covering up not only the US-NATO devastation of Libya, but also its own role as chief propagandist for the 2011 war of aggression.
•Bill Van Auken
Forty-three refugees drown off Libya’s coast: victims of the European Union’s refugee policy
Chief responsibility lies with the governments in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Vienna and The Hague, which have blocked all legal avenues to Europe.
•Martin Kreickenbaum