Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant Responds to Obama’s State of the Union Address

Seattle Free Nestora Salgado Protest 6.10.13

Image by dbarnes333 via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

SeattleChannel21 on Jan 28, 2014

Socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant responses to Obama’s State of the Union address tonight.

Continue reading

Anti-NATO Forces Retake Areas in Southern Libya by Abayomi Azikiwe

Dandelion Salad

by Abayomi Azikiwe
www.workers.org
January 29, 2014

U.S. Out of Libya

Image by Jacob Anikulapo via Flickr

For nearly seven months in 2011, NATO planes — particularly from the U.S., France, Britain and Canada — carried out a massive bombing campaign in Libya intended to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

After getting the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution imposing an arms embargo on Libya and then another authorizing a so-called “no-fly zone” in which only their planes could fly, the imperialists succeeded in having Gaddafi captured and brutally killed, opening the way for the establishment of a new regime that would further their interests in that oil-rich North African country.

Continue reading