Posts Tagged ‘Libya’
Cartoons of the year
Posted: 31 December 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, crisis, debt, Egypt, Europe, inequality, Libya, Obama, Occupy Wall Street
The Woolf Inquiry into the relationship between the London School of Economics and Libya has now been completed and its report released. Now, Benjamin Barber, former member of the board of Saif al-Islam’s Foundation, the Gaddafi International charity and Development Foundation, whose book was quoted in Saif’s dissertation, has once again attempted to burnish Saif’s—and [...]
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 23 October 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, Libya, Occupy Wall Street, politics, protests, United States
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The hidden costs of war
Posted: 8 October 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, economics, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, war
The United States is involved in four wars right now: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan. What are the costs? As it turns out, there’s no easy way of calculating the costs of all these wars, at least in terms of publicly available government statistics. Public appropriations for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been [...]
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 30 August 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, housing, Libya, politics, United States
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Oil or not oil—that is one of the questions
Posted: 27 August 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Libya, oil, war
Is NATO support for the rebels in Libya about oil? Juan Cole, in an otherwise convincing challenge to many of the myths surrounding the Libya war, argues that it’s NOT about oil. This was a war for Libya’s oil. That is daft. Libya was already integrated into the international oil markets, and had done billions [...]
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 25 August 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, jobs, Libya, unemployment, United States
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 24 August 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, Libya, oil, retirement, stock market, United States
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As the Libyan people continue to shed their blood to topple the Qaddafi regime, the corporate vultures are already making preparations to sink their talons into Libyan oil. Even before Libyan rebels could take full control of Tripoli, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy said on state television Monday that the Italian oil company Eni [...]
