Browsing All posts tagged under »Libya«
Getting It Right: Hugo Chávez and the “Arab Spring”
April 14, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
Some opening vignettes might set the right tone for properly appreciating the question of “who was right” about the so-called Arab Spring. (The notion of there having been an “Arab Spring,” a term first coined by U.S. neoconservatives such as Charles Krauthammer back in 2005, is one that has been subject to radically diverse interpretations, […]
March 19: The Festival of Minerva, a Festival of Forgetting
March 19, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
Worshipping Minerva Today, March 19, marks the start of what for the Romans was the Festival of Minerva, based on a cult of worship of a goddess of “wisdom” and “war.” It is also the 10th anniversary of the start of the U.S. war against the people of Iraq, and, as many will forget, the […]
Thoughtful, Respectful, and Progressive: Regarding the “Responsibility to Protect”
February 24, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
Some of this has already been raised, in my recent interview with Phil Taylor, plus in an excellent article by Ken Stone, “UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay: ‘Pretext-maker’ for Western Military Aggression,” and by The Wrong Kind of Green (“Must Watch: MP Laurent Louis Exposes International Neo-Colonialists Behind ‘War On Terror’ & ‘Humanitarian Interventions’ […]
Libya: The Second Anniversary of a Bloody Coup
February 17, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
This weekend, marking the second anniversary of the start of protests that would usher in a bloody and prolonged NATO-led coup to overthrow the Libyan Jamahiriya and Muammar Gaddafi, offers many reasons to celebrate for those whose intention was the demolition of Libyan self-determination, African integration, and a domestic system of extensive social welfare and […]
The State Department’s “Report” on the Attack in Benghazi, Libya: The Effects of Diplomacy as Subversion
December 31, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
Originally published on CounterPunch on December 20, 2012. Almost immediately after the armed attack in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, which resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty, added to the destruction and looting of the U.S. facility in Benghazi, various columnists immediately took […]
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May 11, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
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