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Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
Sunday, 30 August 2015

The Human Tide

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Weeping refugee in Kos with his children - the face of the future? This week has seen yet more appalling news about the deaths of hundr...
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Friday, 12 October 2012

A Desert Called Peace

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Not for the first time, the Norwegian Nobel Committee have courted controversy in their choice of laureate for the Peace Prize: this year,...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

Attack of the Drones

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The last thing you will ever see ... Under President Obama, the USA has massively increased its use of killer drones - unmanned, rem...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

So what are we fighting for again?

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"Our country can no longer speak with moral authority"                                                    - President Jimmy C...
Thursday, 20 October 2011

Death of a Dictator

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Moammer al-Gaddafi is dead . Trapped near his hometown of Sirte by a combination of NATO drones and Libyan NTC fighters, a storm drain was h...
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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Capitalism - Making A Killing

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Years ago, American President Dwight Eisenhower made a speech that would simply be unheard of from any US President's lips in recent yea...
Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Lessons from Libya - and Caroline Lucas on ethical foreign policy

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  As the battle for Tripoli continues, the Gadaffi regime appears to be tottering towards collapse, but huge question marks remain over the...
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Wednesday, 6 July 2011

NATO Uses Up All Its Missiles "Protecting Civilians"

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The so-called limited intervention in Libya by NATO, which started out as a minimalistic " no flying zone ", has now reached prepo...
Friday, 24 June 2011

Taking A Bullet for Dave - The Armchair Arrogance of Corporal Cameron

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At least Adolf Hitler had some combat experience, even being decorated on the recommendation of his Jewish Company Kommandant. As he...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Libya: Solar's Missing Link

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An interesting article today in the New York Times on the Desertec North African solar project, which promises to harness the solar potenti...