Qaddafi

The death of Gaddafi and the Year of the Popular Protest
The death of Muammar Qaddafi—a dictator who lived and died by the sword—is just one more seminal event in what has been, without a doubt, an exceptional year in the history of the world. It has been the Year of the Popular Protest, a fire that has left no corner of the globe untouched. The…
By Omar H. Rahman October 20, 2011
Allied strike on Libya is about oil, not lives saved
By Yael Lavie Nearly a decade ago, a few months before the US led operation (heck let’s call it an invasion, shall we) commenced into Iraq in order to depose Saddam Hussein, I worked on a story about the US history of regime change as a modus operandi of foreign policy. At the time, working…
By +972 Magazine March 20, 2011
View of Tripoli (photo: Gordontour/Flickr)
Letter from Tripoli: An eyewitness account
Yesterday evening (21 February) I was able to speak via Skype for about 20 minutes with a friend who lives in Sarraj, a suburb of Tripoli that is located 10 kilometers west of the city’s center. He agreed to my publishing a summary of the main points of our conversation; and he also answered some…
By Lisa Goldman February 21, 2011
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