Contrary to false denials, the U.S., under the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been bombing Yemen for the last two years, including one attack using cluster bombs that killed dozens of civilians.
Middle East and North Africa
Nobel Peace Prize winner strikes again: Yet another illegal Obama war in Yemen
- 15 June 2011
- Glenn Greenwald
- Middle East and North Africa
Doctors on trial in Bahrain for trying to "topple" the monarchy
- 15 June 2011
- Robert Fisk
- Middle East and North Africa
Doctors, drenched in their patients' blood, desperately trying to staunch the bullet wounds of pro-democracy demonstrators shot in cold blood by Bahraini soldiers and police, are now on trial.
Where have all the £500,000 Tomahawks gone in Libya?
- 14 June 2011
- Robin Beste
- Middle East and North Africa
At the beginning of the war, Britain had 60 Tomahawk missiles, each one costing £500,000, but so many have been fired in three months that more have to be ordered to keep bombing Libya.
Vince Cable: pimp to the arms trade
- 13 June 2011
- Jim McCluskey
- Middle East and North Africa
As a Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable supported the call to end government support for arms exports; what's he doing now he's trade minister responsible for the arms industry?
After the Arab Spring: From Egypt to Libya
- 10 June 2011
- Sami Ramadani
- Middle East and North Africa
The fantasy that the US and its allies intervene to promote democracy could kill a million people and destroy an entire country, as in Iraq, and might do the same in Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Iran.
Who's bombing civilians in Libya and fond of supporting dictators?
- 09 June 2011
- Jody McIntyre
- Middle East and North Africa
Criticise the war and you are accused of not caring about Libyan civilians, or supporting a dictator. But it our government which is bombing Libyan civilians and fond of supporting dictatorships.
United States clawing back control of Arab Spring revolutions
- 31 May 2011
- Soumaya Ghannoushi
- Middle East and North Africa
To Arabs, the problem and chief impediment to their emancipation and progress is the United States, a force of occupation draped in a thin cloak of democracy and human rights.
No boots on the ground in Libya? Watch this and think again.
- 31 May 2011
- Julian Borger & Martin Chulov
- Middle East and North Africa
UK student leaders launch statement against war in Libya
- 28 May 2011
- Middle East and North Africa
UK Student leaders have launched a statement condemning the bombing of Libya as immoral and against international law and calling on the government to stop the war immediately.
What Nato can do to protect Libya's civilians
- 28 May 2011
- Jonathan Steele
- Middle East and North Africa
The time has come to test the latest ceasefire offer by accepting it in principle and working out a monitoring mechanism. The best way to protect Libya's desperate civilians is for Nato to reverse its mistaken policy of taking sides.
Welcome to the violent world of Mr Hopey Changey Obama
- 27 May 2011
- John Pilger
- Middle East and North Africa
As Barack Obama continues his ludicrously overhyped European tour, media gloss cannot disguise the renewed imperial ambition of Libya's western aggressors, says John Pilger.
Foreign intervention in Libya turns into old-style imperialism
- 24 May 2011
- Patrick Cockburn
- Middle East and North Africa
The Nato intervention was supposedly to limit civilian casualties, but it is making a prolonged conflict and heavy civilian loss of life inevitable.
Obama insults the Arab world with the same old bad policies
- 22 May 2011
- Ahdaf Soueif
- Middle East and North Africa
After Obama's speech about the Arab Spring uprisings, Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif says, if he is serious about supporting self-determination for the people of Egypt, here's a to-do list.
What Barack Obama didn't say in his Arab Spring speech
- 22 May 2011
- Associated Press
- Middle East and North Africa
Obama's speech on 19 May 2011 was long on rhetoric and virtually empty of any new policies. And no mention of Saudia Arabia. Did a $60 billion arms deal have something to do with that?
Arming despots: Obama and the Middle East arms trade
- 18 May 2011
- Nick Turse
- Middle East and North Africa
Whatever Obama says about the Muslim world yearning for free speech, democracy, the rule of law and basic civil liberties, he will continue to sell weapons systems and military equipment to Arab despots.
Loving Colonel Gaddafi one minute, bombing him the next
- 18 May 2011
- Middle East and North Africa
The pretence that the RAF is merely "protecting the civilian population" by its bombing of Libya is defied each night as it roams Tripoli with a list of Gaddafi family residences and hideaways to attack.





