New Events

International

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Can Reading the Daily Sceptic Make You Go Mad? Some ?Experts? Think So Sat Dec 27, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
?Rage-bait? is the OED Word of the Year, as ?experts? liken Right-wing content online to a drug that is damaging gullible people?s brains. When will the Word of the Year be ?elite hypocrisy??, asks Steven Tucker.
The post Can Reading the Daily Sceptic Make You Go Mad? Some ?Experts? Think So appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Dec 27, 2025 01:23 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Threat of Islamist Terror is Ruining Christmas in Europe Fri Dec 26, 2025 19:00 | Laurie Wastell
After decades of reckless mass migration policies, the grim threat of Islamist terror now looms over Christmas festivities across Europe. In the Spectator, Clarissa Hard says something has gone terribly wrong.
The post The Threat of Islamist Terror is Ruining Christmas in Europe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How the Frankfurt School Captured the Culture ? and How to Fight Back Fri Dec 26, 2025 17:00 | Kevin Donnelly
Conservatives mustn?t neglect the culture war, argues Dr Kevin Donnelly. Anti-Western, anti-capitalist ideologies are everywhere today because of the long march through the institutions by Frankfurt School Marxists.
The post How the Frankfurt School Captured the Culture ? and How to Fight Back appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link US Launches Airstrikes on Islamic State in Nigeria to Protect ?Innocent Christians? Fri Dec 26, 2025 15:00 | Laurie Wastell
In coordination with Nigerian authorities, the US has launched airstrikes on Islamic State in north-west Nigeria, killing multiple militants. President Trump blasted ?Isis terrorist scum? targeting innocent Christians?.
The post US Launches Airstrikes on Islamic State in Nigeria to Protect ?Innocent Christians? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

NATO War In LIbya

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday September 07, 2011 14:03author by James Turley Report this post to the editors

James Turley looks at developments in Libya: the divisions among the rebels, how most of the Left opposed NATO intervention. More at link.

As it threatened, briefly, to do this spring, the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi has collapsed. The forces previously known as the Libyan rebels have seized power in most of the country, including the capital, Tripoli - assisted, of course, by months of aerial bombardment by Britain, France and America.

Gaddafi's fall, though hardly completely unexpected, nonetheless took place with surprising rapidity. The civil war, which had raged ever since Nato support lent some kind of military muscle to the rag-tag rebel forces, looked for months to have reached a point of stalemate. Frustration was evident at all levels of the imperialist establishment; all the signs of debilitating mission creep (a UN resolution aiming ostensibly to prevent a massacre in Benghazi having given way rapidly to an open-ended mission to topple Gaddafi) were there, easily recognisable from the Iraq and Afghanistan disasters.

The TNC is a motley coalition of academics, liberals, royalists, Islamists and ex-Gaddafi cronies who saw which way the wind was blowing. It is perhaps not the perfect Party of Order, but strange times make for strange bedfellows. Any stable regime to come out of it would necessarily entail significant restrictions on political freedom, if not to the degree enjoyed by Gaddafi; and it would have to sufficiently placate key constituencies of the rebel forces, not least the Islamists and tribal leaders. Given the ideologically protean character of Gaddafi - who claimed to be a pan-Arabist, a pan-Africanist and a pan-Islamist - it is likely that his erstwhile henchmen will have no problem adapting in particular to Islamism.

Related Link: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/article.php?article_id=1004523
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy