A major escalation of the Libyan war has commenced. On Monday 1st July, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Mohamed Manfour announced the beginning of a new aerial bombardment campaign after "traditional means" to "liberate Tripoli" had been exhausted. Rumours...
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US and UK Policy Toward Libya Shifts to ISIS and the Brotherhood
by Richard Galustian | May 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
“The West” is much divided over what should happen in Libya. This is particularly true for France and Italy, who each have vast oil and gas economic interests and are increasingly at odds with one another. While admittedly the US and UK have an eye on their potential...
Libya’s Peace Process Dies in Palermo
by Richard Galustian | Nov 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
“Resounding flop” was the verdict of Italy’s former prime minister Matteo Renzi on this week’s Libya peace conference held in Palermo. He’s not wrong. The conference hosted by Italy’s new government achieved the remarkable feat of making Libya’s tensions worse, not...
Khashoggi, Skripal, and the End of Morality in International Relations
by Richard Galustian | Oct 29, 2018 | Featured Articles
Politics attracts psychopaths like honey attracts bears. Questions of morality are irrelevant for today’s politicians, along with questions of principle, honor and integrity -- things frequently written about by the great thinkers of the 20th Century, particularly...
A Milestone in Afghanistan
by Richard Galustian | Aug 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
Sometime late next year, possibly as early as September, news crews will gather in Afghanistan for a unique event: To interview an American serviceman or woman who was not born when the war they are fighting began. He or she will not remember 9/11, and will have grown...
The Very Unhinged John Brennan
by Richard Galustian | Jul 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
Winston Churchill said all there is to say about political summits with his quote: “Jaw jaw is better than war war.” That is the thing to bear in mind when examining the rights and wrongs of the The Trump-Putin summit: Two leaders of two of the world’s most powerful...
Explosions Rock Tripoli Election Commission: Who’s Trying to Prevent the Vote?
by Richard Galustian | May 2, 2018 | Featured Articles
To underscore the dire situation in Libya and the extent to which extremists will go, on Wednesday at around noon two huge explosions occurred at the HNEC, the Higher National Election Commission's HQ, in Tripoli, killing over 15 people and wounding many more. The...
UK Government Falling Apart, Changes Subject by Kicking Russia
by Richard Galustian | Mar 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The British government has never been more unpopular amongst the British people. It’s being crushed by problems entirely of its own making and undone by its own neglect and incompetence over a disastrously handled Brexit, crippling austerity measures, a general public...
Double Standards in Libya
by Richard Galustian | Mar 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
Two weeks ago Interpol issued a Red Notice for the Libyan National Army "Saiqa" Special Forces Major, Mahmoud Werfalli. According to the notice, Werfalli is "wanted by the Judicial Authorities of the International Criminal Court."As to the Werfalla case, the Libya...
Libya: Seven Years of Failed Western Diplomacy
by Richard Galustian | Feb 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
The approaching seventh anniversary of the "Libyan revolution," (where the celebratory date was last week arbitrarily moved to the 18th of February -- a bit like moving the 4th of July to the 8th) under what a majority of Libyans feel is an illegitimate, solely UN...
Libya Update: What’s Really Behind the Airport Firefight?
by Richard Galustian | Jan 17, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Continuing from my OpEd of the 11th January entitled "Libya Update: Power Struggles Continue - Will the UN Get its Way?", dramatic further evidence of my assessment came in the form of reports of intense fighting that started over the weekend and dramatically...
Libya Update: Power Struggles Continue – Will the UN Get its Way?
by Richard Galustian | Jan 11, 2018 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
On Wednesday a former distinguished US State Department official who has now switched jobs to work for the UN, Jeffery Feltman, as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, arrived in Tripoli. His visit came as the UN’s efforts to implement the Libyan Political...
The UN Losing Poker Hand in Libya
by Richard Galustian | Sep 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
In poker, smart players know that the best thing to do with a weak hand is dump it. Not so the United Nations. Libya is doubling down on backing the failing Government of National Accord (GNA), hoping that by reopening its UN base in the capital, the previously...
The International Criminal Court is the Antithesis of Justice
by Richard Galustian | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
If there was a prize for the world’s most ineffective institution, the International Criminal Court would win hands down.Consider this: The court has been in operation for fifteen years, has spent over a billion Euros, and has convicted just four war criminals. Yes,...
Libya Update: Western Governments Still Eyeing Libyan ‘Prize’
by Richard Galustian | Aug 8, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
More than six years after the US-led "liberation" of Libya, that North African country remains an open wound symbolizing the abject failure of US and European interventionist foreign policy.The obsession of the US neocons, whether Democrat or Republican, for "regime...
Libya Report: New Wrinkle in US Plan For Gaddafi-Free Libya
by Richard Galustian | Jul 27, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army, has stated that former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif Islam, "is free and in a safe place." Haftar further said he welcomed the idea of the younger Gaddafi playing some sort of political role...
Libya Report: Is Saif Gaddafi in the West’s Crosshairs?
by Richard Galustian | Jul 17, 2017 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
The struggle for power from the ruins of Libya is likely to get even uglier, and what is becoming decidedly more noticeable is the role of other interfering states who are betting on one side or another in the game for the prize that is Libya.The latest international...
The ICC Should be on Trial not Saif Gaddafi
by Richard Galustian | Jun 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Saif Gaddafi at a press conference last week.The International Criminal Court has demanded that Libya hand over former leader Muamar Gaddafi's son Saif after his release by an armed militia last week, but it is the Court, not Saif, which should be on trial.One word...
Can Gaddafi Save Libya?
by Richard Galustian | Jun 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
Politically dramatic news emerged on Saturday 10th June when it was announced that Saif Al-Islam, was freed from Zintan and had arrived in eastern Libya, to Al-Bayda. This is a very significant turn of events on the ground politically in so many different ways. One of...
Is Libya War Coming to an End?
by Richard Galustian | Jun 5, 2017 | Featured Articles
On the 3rd of June, Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) gained its most significant strategic military victory in the southern part of the country which now means that almost two thirds of Libya is under Haftar's LNA control. This may prove to be a game...
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