Libya

The nation still remembers the old days of real sovereignty it had before 2011 By Mustafa Fetouri, Libyan academic and award winning journalist and analyst FILE PHOTO: Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, April 10, 2011 ©  JOSEPH EID / AFP Twelve years ago, the so-called Arab Spring visited Libya, ending Muammar Gaddafi’s rule and plunging the country into chaos, leaving it divided along tribal and regional lines. Gaddafi himself was murdered at the hands of Western-supported militias. NATO’s disguised military invasion of Libya What started in February 2011 as a small and limited civilian demonstration against the Gaddafi government in Eastern Libya turned out to be Western-supported regime change endeavour involving military intervention by NATO dis...

BY W. T. WHITNEY Image by Mike Erskine. Prodigious rainfall and the failure of long-deteriorated earthen dams caused a rush of waters through Derna, in Libya, on September 11. Thousands of residents died, infrastructure was destroyed, and buildings ended up in the Mediterranean. Failure to protect residents, maintain the dams, and sustain the lives of all Libyans point to societal collapse. There is also the environmental crisis. Climate change provoked the enormity of storm Daniel that had drenched the eastern Mediterranean area ahead of the disaster. The association of climate change and terrible storms is known and so too is the role of human activities in causing great amounts of greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere. The focus here is on the social disru...

By: CHRIS HEDGES NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe. The chaos that followed Western intervention saw weapons from the country’s arsenals flood the black market, with many snatched up by groups such as the Islamic State. Civil society ceased to function. Journalists captured images of migrants from Nigeria, Senegal and Eritrea being beaten and sold as slaves to work in fields or on construction sites. Libya’s infrastructure, including its electrical grids, aquifers, oil fields and dams, fell into disrepair. And when the torrential rains from Storm Daniel —  the climat...

Zionist puppet Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush speaks during a joint press conference with her Kuwaiti counterpart in Kuwait City on Oct. 3, 2021. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2023, pp. 46-47 Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri AS A PREDOMINANTLY Sunni Muslim country, Libya has long been known for its moderate practice of Islam based on tolerance and acceptance of others. Christians in the country, nearly all of whom are foreigners including Egyptian Copts, are welcomed by the people and have their own places of worship. They seldom face any prejudice based on their religion.  Last May, Libya’s General Authority for Awqaf and Islamic Affairs (GAAIA), a public organization, anno...