Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]
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Qaddafi reportedly South of Tripoli as Algeria offers Family Members Safe Passage
An Italian news service, Ansa, reported Monday that Muammar Qaddafi, his eldest son Saif, and another son, Saadi (a military commander during the failed attempt […]
Lockerbie Bomber in Coma in Tripoli, as retreating Qaddafi Troops use Human Shields
CNN’s intrepid Nic Robertson gets the scoop. He discovered that Abdel Basit Ali Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, is in a coma in a villa […]
Rebels Consolidate Control over Tripoli as Qaddafi’s Mass Killings Discovered
The systematic war crimes of the Qaddafi regime continue to be uncovered, with the discovery Saturday in Tripoli of the charred remains of nearly 60 […]
Fall of Tripoli Echoes Loudly in Damascus
Protesters in Syria have cheered on the revolutionaries in Libya, and the fall of Tripoli to a popular uprising last Saturday and Sunday gave new […]
Hurricanes and Global Warming
With the approach of Hurricane Irene, climate activists are reminding us that more intensive hurricanes are produced by warmer water, so that global warming over […]
Iraq Adopts Iran’s Backing of Assad
Interview with me, mirrored from The United States Institute of Peace Iran Primer. Q. What impact will the call by the United States and major […]
How to Avoid Bush’s Iraq Mistakes in Libya
The illegal American invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation was so epochal a catastrophe that it spawned a negative phrase in Arabic, “to Iraqize” or […]
TV, Twitter, Facebook and the Libyan Revolution
The USG Open Source Center summarizes what is known about television and social media penetration in Libya (see below). Television is light years more important […]
Qaddafi’s Complex Falls to Revolutionaries
Libyan revolutionaries have captured the Bab al-Aziziya compound of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi. CNN’s Sara Sidner reported it live and on site (video here). The […]
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