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Podcasts: NATO, AFRICOM, Racism, and the War on Libya
December 31, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
December 12, 2012. Interviewed by Brendan Stone, CFMU 93.3 FM, “Unusual Sources” (Maximilian C. Forte does not let us forget about what happened in Libya – from the propaganda build-up to the NATO intervention to the punishing aftermath. His new book, Slouching Towards Sirte, serves as both an investigation and a warning: what happened to […]
A War for Human Rights?
December 31, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
Originally published by The Political Bouillon on December 8, 2012. Republished on Global Research as Destroying Libya: A War for “Human Rights”? Adapted, translated and republished on Tiempos de furia as ¿Qué pasó en Libia? SOS por un país arrasado The war in Libya never happened. At least that is what one might think, considering the dearth of serious analysis […]
Libya: Imperial Humanists and Helpless Others
September 22, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
[...continued from the previous article; see the list of related articles at the bottom of this page, plus information on the latest book, Slouching Towards Sirte] The empire that speaks of “dignity” first invented the image of the helpless Libyan begging for us to “stop standing idly by”—because we, in the West, are tasked with […]
Libya: Empire or Dignity
September 22, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
[Part 6 of 6 of my series on "Dignity," this article is itself divided up into a series of articles, each one partly derived and adapted from my book on NATO's war against Libya. See the bottom of the articles for more details.] “May God bless them,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with […]
A Tear for Africa: Humanitarian Abduction and Reduction
August 1, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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Helpless, pleading, wanting, needing, small, weak, staring at you, black–this is the anti-bogeyman invented by Western humanitarianism, what passes as morality in the ideology of empire (yet again). Past the time of a London Missionary Society, we now have the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the moral dogma of a white, western elite that projects its […]
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April 25, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
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