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  • 20 Mar 2011
    Bombing will not democratize Libya, warns thinktank

    The beliefs and values thinktank Ekklesia has warned that bombing Libya is unlikely to help the country move towards democracy and will increase the suffering of its people.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    Return of the 'crusading spirit'?

    This morning I turned on my radio to a sick sense of deja vu, with the news of war in Libya. Eight years to the day that George Bush announced attacks on Iraq, a stony faced President Obama did the same as he spoke to reporters in Brasilia.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    Military action in Libya and 'liberal interventionism'

    The recent history of western military interventions in the Middle East is hardly encouraging. Yet British PM David Cameron has clearly been itching to begin the bombing in Libya, and US President Obama has also sanctioned armed action - in spite of serious warnings from advisers in and outside the White House.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    US demonstrations against Libyan military intervention

    Protesters have taken to the streets in New York, Chicago, Washington DC and other US cities as bombing raids begin against the Gaddafi regime in Libya.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    Protests as UK joins 'irresponsible' bombing raids on Libya

    Peace campaigners say that the UK and US military action in Libya is "dangerous and irresponsible", risking wider conflict and the strengthening of Gaddafi

  • 19 Mar 2011
    Amnesty concerned for civilians as Libya war breaks out

    Amnesty International has urged all parties to make the protection of civilians in Libya their top priority as the threat of military action is realised.

  • 18 Mar 2011
    British, French and US military strikes on Libya being prepared

    Western governments are planning air strikes against the Gaddafi regime in Libya, which has reasserted its rule after weeks of protest, say analysts.

  • 12 Mar 2011
    Libya: the prospect of war

    The military balance of Libya’s domestic conflict is raising debate about external intervention, says Professor Paul Rogers. But the strategy of the Gaddafi regime is also crucial to what happens next. If a long conflict follows, the resulting costs will be measured in human lives; but also in the prospects for deepening the 'Arab spring' that first bloomed in Tunisia and Egypt, the countries on either side of Libya.

  • 11 Mar 2011
    Call to cancel arms fair after public outrage over Libya

    The government has been urged to cancel an international arms fair in the wake of public outrage over UK arms sales to the Gaddafi regime in Libya.

  • 11 Mar 2011
    Sacrifice and courage in Libya

    A friend of mine was on that delayed plane out of Tripoli. You remember the one? We saw images of it stuck on the runway at Gatwick, some technical problems making take-off impossible.