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Slouching Towards Sirte : NATO's War on Libya and Africa.
A comprehensive analysis, this book examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. It delineates the documentary history of events, processes, and decisions that led up to the war while underscoring its resulting consequences. Arguing that NATO...
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Baraka Books,
2013.
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| 520 | |a A comprehensive analysis, this book examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. It delineates the documentary history of events, processes, and decisions that led up to the war while underscoring its resulting consequences. Arguing that NATO's war is part of a larger process of militarizing U.S. relations with Africa-which sees the development of the Pentagon's AFRICOM as being in competition with Pan-African initiative-this account shows that Western relations with a "rehabilitated" Libya were shaky at best, mired in distrust, and exhibit. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abberviations; Introduction -- Liberal Imperialism and the New Scramble for Africa; Chapter One -- Sirte: Keystone of Independence; Welcome to Sirte Today; From a Tent outside Sirte: Defining a New Libya; Sirte: An African Dream Turned into a Nightmare; Sirte, the New Pan-Africanism, and U.S. Scrutiny; Sirte's Place in the Development of Libya; Sirte: Reforms, Divisions, and Raised Expectations; Chapter Two -- Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism; Sirte: Reagan, Regime Change, Rapprochement. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Sirte: Mi6 and Early Islamist Attacks against GaddafiBarack Obama and How Empire Revisited Sirte; Sirte: Toxic to Empire; Sirte: Fantasy Land of the Insurgents; Sirte: Allah, Muammar, Libya-and Memory; Who Voted With Their Feet?; War Crimes: Civilians Targeted in Nato Attacks; Liberal Intervention and the Myth of "Protecting Civilians"; Liberating Sirte: Massacres, Looting, Torture, Racism; Save Benghazi, Slay Sirte: Under Cover of Humanitarian Intervention; Goal No. 1: Regime Change; Hunting for Gaddafi in Sirte; Celebration at the Safari Club. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter Three -- Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its DiscontentsAfrica and the Green Book: Getting Past Eurocentrism; Mandela and Gaddafi: Moral Pan-Africanism; Libya, Gaddafi, and Pan-Africanism: Anti-imperialism after Pan-Arabism; Libyan Aid and Investment in Africa; The Security Dimension of Libyan Pan-Africanism; Cen-Sad: A Victory for Libya; Against Africans: Roots of Racist Revolt within Libya; Post-Gaddafi: Closing Libya's Door on Africa; Chapter Four -- A War against Africa: Africom, Nato, and Racism; Africom: Militarizing U.S. Relations with Africa, andGaddafi's Defiance; Libyan Defiance. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Africom Overthrows an Opponent, Creating Opportunity for the U.S. The Racist War: Racist Rebels and Racist Humanitarians; Airports and African Mercenaries: Origin of the No-Fly Zone; Social Media: Racial Hysteria Supporting Foreign Intervention; Mainstream Media: Disseminating and Inciting Racial Fear; Early Reports of Atrocities: Filed and Ignored; Rebel Bravado: Admissions of Mass Lynching; After the Fall of Tripoli: Ethnic Cleansing by the Insurgents; Who Cares About African Migrants or Black Libyans?; Chapter Five -- Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency; "Genocide Prevention." | |
| 505 | 8 | |a "Gaddafi is Bombing His Own People""Save Benghazi"; The Un and the Right to Speak for Libya; Amnesty International versus Libya; "Viagra-fueled Mass Rape"; "Protecting Civilians"; The Alternative to Intervention?; Conclusion -- The Aftermath: A New War on Africa; African Reactions to Regime Change; Gaddafi is Gone. Oh no!; The African Union: Denouncing an Unnecessary and Provocative War; South Africa: The Anc against Regime Change, Recolonization; Uganda: The Rebels Condemn Themselves; Zimbabwe: Nato Liars and Brutal Aggressors; Regional Destabilization in the Aftermath of Nato. | |
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