Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO’s Libya by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb
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Benghazi, Libya
November 11, 2011

The “new Libya” has entered its own “Terror” which is spreading inexorably, aided by NATO member states including American, French and British SAS units known locally as “disappearance squads”. This is one of the rapidly developing consequences of the UN’s rush to “protect Libya’s civilian population” last spring.

And it is why human rights investigators are arriving in Benghazi, Libya this week.

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Why Progressives Should Support Ron Paul + With 13,111 New Peace Voters, Ron Paul Can Win the Iowa Caucus by Robert Naiman

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Updated: Nov. 15, 2011 added excerpt and link to Naiman’s article.

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7 Reasons Liberals Should Support RON PAUL in the 2012 GOP Race
08/04/2011

Ron Paul will END THE WARS
Obama campaigned on an expedient end to the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, Ron Paul will actually do it! He has been against the wars from the beginning and has called for an immediate withdrawal!

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Occupy Wall Street – On the strategy and tactics of non-forceful and forceful responses to the violence of the capitalist-imperialist state by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.

by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.
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November 12, 2011

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Abstract:

In this article, a dialectical approach to the strategy and tactics of non-forceful and forceful forms of struggle, in face of the all-round violence of the capitalist-imperialist state, is proposed. As some of the pacifist, progressive, and anarchist or anarchist-like speakers and writers of the 2011 American Protests (Occupy Protests) are absolutizing the non-violence-not only as a tactic, but also as a permanent strategy and philosophy of the struggle-a brief critique of them is also included in this paper.

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