All Africa (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika is likely to take over African Union chairmanship from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi next January, African Union sources have said.
EuropeNews (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The foreign affairs commission of the House of Representatives has demanded the government take action on visas in the diplomatic spat with Libya.
TalkCarswell.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Foreign Office is on its knees, complains ex-Ambassador Christopher Meyer in the Telegraph. Good. For years, the FCO has pursued policy objectives at odds with our national interest. Her mandarins are aggressively Euro-integrationist, lobbying for each of the treaties, from Rome to Lisbon. (None of which, incidentally, has been democratically sanctioned by anyone under the age of 52.) Our urbane...
State of the Division (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The DialyMail has two malodorous stories. Each reeks of dirty money. The first concerns Tony Blair and his march to riches post public service. We are told he has made £15million since he stepped down as Prime Minister in 2007, although this might be a conservative estimate. Certainly, he is the first modern-day premier to become seriously rich after leaving office. At this rate, he could become...
Bridgend Patriot (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
From the communist run Wales Online A FORMER town mayor has hit back at British National Party claims he had links with terrorism. Suleman Hawas and his friend Coun Peter Foley were accused of “ jeopardising the national security of the UK” for forging links with Libya in a BNP leaflet delivered to homes in Bridgend. But Mr Hawas ridiculed the claims and said he will push on with a project...
Gypsy Scholar (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Griffin Against Islamists? (Image from The Spectator ) Keeping up with the national politics of European nations is an endless task, especially for an American expat like me living in Korea, where I'm more affected by the day-to-day politics of Northeast Asia, but difficult to miss is the rise in respectability of the racist right in some European countries. Take Britain. The British National Pary...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
please sir, can I have some more? “ In the Reagan period, we used force only three times. People think of us as warlike, but we used force in Grenada to rescue potential hostages there; we were in and out of there quickly, we achieved our mission, got out; we used force to put Qaddafi back in his box by taking out a building from which he had directed attacks against our soldiers; and we used...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
THIS weekend a group of South African farmers departs for Libya to visit several unproductive state farms. Their mission is to help Libya revive commercial production, a major strategic concern for a country that imports 75% of its food. I am told the World Bank advised Libya's President Muammar Gaddafi to import agricultural expertise from Asia but that he balked at the thought of entrusting this...
Libyaonline.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Academics and professors of universities and professional associations and Trustees of the popular sectors gather to stress Saif al-Islam is pride for all Libyans and charged with the management of local affairs ambitions of the future will bring large number of academics and university professors and secretaries of the People's Committees of the sectors in number of grass-roots on the importance and...
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Having just been propelled into the number two spot in the Libyan regime (in theory), Saif El Islam Kadhafi has strongly insisted that Shokri Ghanem return to his old job as boss of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), from which he was fired some weeks ago by prime minister Baghdadi Mahmoudi. (...) [115mots]
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Jamal Algarabi, officially in Geneva to talk to the UN about immigration, has been asked by the Kadhafi claim to test the waters of Swiss-Libya relations, according to our sources. (...) [74mots]
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qaddafi has written a drama series that apparently is to be broadcast next Ramadan. According to the report, the series is on problems preoccupying the Arab street, and is in response to the media attack on the Arab ... October 27, 2009, 11:10 am
Libyaonline.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Libyan leader, has lavished praise on his country's good relations with Britain, pointing to close economic ties even during the long standoff over the Lockerbie bombing.Gaddafi, speaking to Sky News, made clear he was seeking to draw a line under the Lockerbie affair, even as Scottish authorities confirmed a further review of the 20-year-old case was under way.The rare interview, to be broadcast...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today said that the Palestinians should be allowed to have nuclear weapons if the world does not act to disarm Israel of its arsenal. Colonel Gaddafi accused the international community of "double standards" because Israel is allowed to maintain a barely-hidden nuclear capability while Iran comes under massive pressure not to develop its own.' Read more...
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
That's the "theme" of "The First International Conference of the World Association of Supporters of the Green Book." The Green Book, you will recall, is just like Mao's Little Red Book except that it is green, written by Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, and easily five times as liberating. If humanity is going to get emancipated from its bonds, the least I can do is merge the first JANA...
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