Muammar Gaddafi

Occupy Wall Street: New politics and new milestones

November 2011
Phyllis Bennis

The occupy movement has achieved an incredible and much-needed shake-up of a long-standing political stasis in the US and elsewhere, but it is crucial now to highlight the connection between failed foreign policy, bloated military spending and illegal wars, and the economic crisis at home.

Libya: Too Soon to Declare Victory

August 2011
Phyllis Bennis

The success of Libya's uprising will have a great deal to do with the willingness of its leadership to break its dependency on the United States and NATO.

Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US

May 2011
Tariq Ali

Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two – the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular movements – has begun.

How has military intervention in Libya shaped the Arab Spring?

April 2011
Fiona Dove
Kamil Mahdi
Phyllis Bennis

A continuing war in Libya tarnishes the Arab revolutionary uprising, because it has subverted a democratic revolution and become a war of intervention. Two of TNI's fellows and experts on the Middle East debate the underlying causes and consequences of the Libya military intervention.

In favour of the no-fly zone to support Libyan rebels

April 2011
Shibil Siddiqi

Can progressives and anti-imperialists still support the UN-mandated intervention in Libya? They can, and indeed, they must.

When civil-societyism fronts for barbarism

March 2011
Patrick Bond

The Gaddafis close relationship with the London School of Economics exposes yet another case of institutions selling favours to the rich and powerful.