Journalist Lindsey Hilsum examines the notorious Abu Salim prison massacre and how the memory of its brutality pushed Libyans to throw off Gaddafi's rule.
Vijay Prashad talks neoliberal economics, the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia and why NATO's intervention in Libya marked a new chapter in the story of the Arab revolts.
Once our seizure of Libyan oil becomes clear it will only ramp up the jihadist hatred for America that has spread like wildfire across the Middle East.
In a remote Libyan town, thousands of migrants from Chad and Sudan live in wretched conditions, suffer from attacks by bandits, and are desperate to leave.
Obama offered plenty of airy rhetoric about advancing our "values," but actions speak louder than words and the world continues to await some tangible results.
Could this be what it’s like to watch, paralyzed, as a country on autopilot begins to come apart at the seams while still proclaiming itself “the greatest nation on Earth”?
Whatever Obama's motives in Libya, by conforming to a pre-existing American penchant for using force in the Greater Middle East, this president has chosen the wrong tool.
