Tag: libya
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#MorningMonarchy: April 4, 2016
Panama Papers, mass graves and a massive recession + this day in history w/MLK killed and our song of the day by Kevin Morby on your Morning Monarchy for April 4, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 29, 2016
Dismantling the jungle, arming the enemy and muzzling the outspoken + this day in history w/Mammy and our song of the day by Violent Femmes on your Morning Monarchy for February 29, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 8, 2016
TTIP transparency, shadowy campaign money and retro rockets + this day in history w/Birth Of A Nation and our song of the day by Hinds on your Morning Monarchy for February 8, 2016.
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Sucked Into Distractions
from antiwar.com: It’s funny how so many people in the peace and justice movement, in which I’ve been an active participant for the past decade, have been sucked into various distractions in recent years. This didn’t happen very often during the Bush presidency. The most recent distraction is the Bowe Bergdahl fiasco, which is pure…
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State Department Tells US Citizens to Leave Libya Immediately
from reuters.com: The State Department on Tuesday told U.S. citizens in Libya to leave immediately, warning that the security situation in the country was “unpredictable and unstable.” “The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all travel to Libya and recommends that U.S. citizens currently in Libya depart immediately,” the State Department said in a…
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Libya Mulls June Elections in Bid to Ease Crisis
What a US Military Evacuation in Libya Might Look Like* from dailystar.com.lb: Libya’s election commission proposed Tuesday holding a fresh round of parliamentary polls next month in a bid to find a peaceful resolution to a crisis triggered by a renegade general’s efforts to crush Islamist militias and his demand that the Islamist-led legislature disband…
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Libya’s Cache of Toxic Arms All Destroyed
from nytimes.com: Even as the international effort to destroy Syria’s vast chemical weapons stockpile lags behind schedule, a similar American-backed campaign carried out under a cloak of secrecy ended successfully last week in another strife-torn country, Libya. The United States and Libya in the past three months have discreetly destroyed what both sides say were…
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“Lost” Fortresses of Sahara Revealed by Satellites
from news.nationalgeographic.com: Real-life “castles in the sand” made by an ancient culture have been revealed in the Sahara, archaeologists say. New satellite photographs show more than a hundred fortress settlements from a “lost” civilization in southwestern Libya. The communities, which date to between about A.D. 1 and 500, belonged to an advanced but mysterious people…
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Huge Water Resource Exists Under Africa
from cryptogon.com: Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface. The team have produced the most detailed map yet of the scale and potential of this hidden…





