On March 23, 1940, a twin-engine civilian Lockheed-12A, registration code G-AGAR, took off from an airfield in the London suburb of Heston. British pilot Haig McLane was at the controls. The aircraft set course for Malta; then after an intermediate stop in Cairo, it flew on to the British military […]
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NATO In Libya: Victory Would Be Worse Than Defeat
Warfare in Libya has come to dead-end in fact: in spite of NATO bombings rebels happened to be unable to resist the Libyan troops. Aviation attacks at Gaddafi’s residence and the fact that British Minister of Defense defined Libyan leader himself as a «legit target» for bombings prove that coalition […]
Geopolitics Behind the Great Victory
While talking of the great triumph over Nazis in World War II, discussing the global impact of the Soviet people’s victory, and saying that it irreversibly transformed the world, we often fail to appreciate the extent of heroism of Soviet soldiers and the proportions of the changes it helped to […]
In Wake of Bin Laden Killing: US Targets American Citizen in Yemen
Barely five days after the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the US launched a Predator drone strike aimed at assassinating an American citizen in Yemen. The May 5 drone attack, which took place in Yemen’s Shabwa province, was planned as a targeted assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a New […]
America Needs Osama Again
The situation of the West, especially of the United States, has been getting worse on the world scene in recent weeks. The United States has been swept by the most powerful demonstrations of protest since early this century, with socio-economic demands chanted together with the slogan: “Down with the Dictatorship […]
Libya’s Great Man-Made River
NATO war on Libya was long-planned. All military interventions require months of preparation, including: — strategy and conflict objectives; — enlisting coalition partners; — selecting targets; — promoting political and public support; — deploying troops; — in Libya, recruiting, funding, and arming so-called rebels; and — post-conflict imperial plans. Washington […]
What Really Happened In Abbotabad
The White House claims Navy seals carried out an operation and killed Osama bin Laden. But basically there is no fact to back this claim. Let us go over the known facts from residents and the non-US media. During the night, there was an electric power cut. Helicopters were heard […]
Gaddafi: ‘We Will Live Free Or Die’
On April 29, one day before Muammar Gaddafi lost his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three grandchildren (two-years-old Carthage, 18-months-old Saif Mohamed and 6-months-old Mastura) under NATO night attack, he delivered a speech on Libyan national TV. He permitted few sharp words towards Italian leaders, the words, which being snatched […]
Portraying Libya: the «Free Media» and the «Common Vision»
The media have long evolved into a kind of auxiliary warfare, and, in terms of their impact, now almost rank with weapons of mass destruction. The West maintains a number of media-related institutions which, in the majority of cases, are integrated into defense or security agencies, serving to feed carefully […]
Obama Killed Osama
The spontaneous celebrations of the assassination of Osama bin Laden that are spilling across the US reflect the extent to which the American society was traumatized by the September 11 drama. In the aftermath of media reports of the killing of “the number one terrorist” along with his innocent relatives, […]
The War on Terror Is Over?
We have already noted at the mayhem of 2011 Middle East-North Africa protests that Muammar Gaddafi fighting pro-Al-Qaeda Islamists is now replacing Ben Laden as incarnation of ‘absolute Evil’ in mainstream media. On May 1, 2011 we got a logical consequence of this political trend: President Obama has declared Osama […]
The Agony of Libya: What Can Be Done (II)
In my last article I had promised to elaborate upon my understanding of the position that the two permanent members of the UN Security Council had taken on resolution 1973 which sanctioned the imposition of the No-Fly zone over Libya and the taking of other action to protect civilians. Para […]
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