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Libya’s former deputy foreign minister: ‘Nato’s invasion is the cause of the misery in Libya’
KHALED KAIM, a former leading official in Gadaffi's government, spoke to Patrik Paulov about the lies told by the Nato forces and Gulf states about the destruction of Libya and the chaos wrought by warring forces today
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN the spring of 2011, Nato were supposed to “save” the Libyan people from repression and massacre. Nine years later, Libya is characterised by chaos, division and fierce battles between domestic and foreign interests.
“We have not had a unified and functioning government since March 2011. The Libyans have paid a high price for the invasion,” says Khaled Kaim, the country’s former deputy foreign minister.
Developments in Libya appear from time to time in the news flow. The war that started in March 2011 has not yet ended. On the contrary, the fighting has escalated over the past year and more outside parties are getting involved in the power struggle in the oil-rich country.
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