Wall-painted portrait of deposed Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Photo from Flickr. On October 20, 2011, amid protests supported by the governments of the United States and the European Union, an armed uprising that plunged the country into a civil war, the Libyan leader was captured and brutally murdered by the
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Canadian Dimension: The US-NATO Invasion of Libya Destroyed the Country Beyond All Recognition
A Libyan rebel celebrates in front of a tank belonging to loyalist forces • Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP On Friday, March 17, hundreds of Libyans came into Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square. They wanted to make a simple statement: end the rule of militias. Since the NATO war of 2011, Libya has
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Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt
With the recent release of Hillary Clinton’s emails by Wikileaks, the public now knows exactly how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) …
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