To intervene, or not to intervene, that is the question? Or is it? When it comes to the Libyan revolution, and the peculiar madness of Colonel Gadaffi, what is the right thing to do? Yesterday evening, he was interviewed by ABC and the BBC, to begin with wearing dark shades and then next without them; the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Libya’
So Who Benefitted From Gadaffi’s Largesse?
Feb 27th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.As the United Nations Security Council meets in New York, Secretary General Ban ki moon is calling for “decisive” action to be taken against the Libyan regime. The UN Secretary General deserves all of the support he can get, and is absolutely right to call for tough sanctions and for Gadaffi and his henchmen to face […]
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Getting rid of Gadaffi – How to help the Libyan people
Feb 26th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Heavy gun fire has been heard raking the streets of Tripoli, as Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi makes a defiant stand. There can be no doubt now that he will stop at absolutely nothing to hang on to power, along with his family entourage who until recently were assiduously courted by the British and Italian establishments.
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Blair, Arab despots, and the ethical dimension of Britain’s foreign policy
Feb 21st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.It’s too easy to sneer at those photos of Blair and Gaddafi. It was far better to shake the hand of a despot than to bomb thousands of his country’s innocent inhabitants (though the credit for the rapprochement between Britain and Libya in the wake of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 probably belongs […]
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Everything you’ve read about the Lockerbie saga is false
Feb 9th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Not for the first time the Lockerbie narrative is being distorted out of all recognition for political ends, by the US-UK governments in the 1990s, by the UK Government and the Scottish Executive in 2009, and now by Cameron in his statement on Tuesday. Cameron’s line was that Labour “had done all it could to facilitate” the […]
