It's all about framing
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 11/25/2019 - 1:29pm
We must stop Russian adventurism in Libya!
What are we doing in Libya? Not adventurism, that's for sure.
libya
Meanwhile in the GWOT
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 6:43pm
Al-Qaeda may have been exaggerating.
Libya: Seven Years Later
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 12:58pmThe last time the news media paid any attention to Libya was when CNN reported that there were now open-air slave markets in Libya.
It turns out that the Pentagon never stopped bombing Libya.
Sunday Open Thread: December 24 is Xmas Eve + How to Wear a Man Bun
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 12/24/2017 - 8:00am
World History this day
1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s
1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began
1941 -- Benghazi was conquered by British troops
1943 -- Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander for Normandy
1951 -- Libya became independent
The CIA's Man in Libya
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 09/19/2017 - 5:27pmEgypt is heavily invested in Libya's on-going civil war.
Manchester, Libyan Blowback, and Corbyn's Heresy
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 10:11pmEarlier this week UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech that was almost universally considered to be political suicide.
Open-Air Slave Markets Return to Libya
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 04/15/2017 - 8:18pmCheck Hillary Clinton's web site and you will find a page defending her 2011 endorsement of regime change in Libya. During the campaign she did "not see the Libya intervention as a failure, but as a work in progress."
Zombie Party and the Future of Our Children
Submitted by Alex Ocana on Fri, 11/04/2016 - 8:30amA single free association photo essay centered in North Africa.
I am sick of USA and Europe colonizing and destroying the planet for profits and demonizing our people and revolutionary movements.
Libya: Well President Obama Has Saved Hillary The Trouble
Submitted by LaFeminista on Mon, 08/01/2016 - 11:58pm[if indeed she is elected]
US warplanes target ISIL in Libya for first time
Airstrikes are backing Libyan forces seeking to retake city of Sirte from ISIL.
More Mission Creep in the GWOT
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 3:12pmPresident Obama has halted the drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
