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Silently Disciplining Research By Reseach Professor Emeritus at Prio, Ola Tunander, Modern Times, Ny Tid, Whistleblower supplement, March 6, 2021 Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions. The example presented here is from the Institute for Peace Research in Oslo (PRIO), an institution which historically has had researchers critical of wars of aggression – and who can hardly be labeled friends...

April 5, 2021 last updated 17:38 ET Blackwater founder Erik Prince arrives for a closed meeting with members of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 30, 2017 (AP photo by Jacquelyn Martin). Why Mercenary Armies Are Running Amok It may take years to unravel the tangled web surrounding “Project Opus,” the bungled 2019 mercenary operation to prop up Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, which allegedly included efforts to deploy a speci...

Story highlights If proven guilty, these charges can lead to Prince facing travel ban and freezing of all of his assets A major ally of the reality TV star and former US President, Donald Trump, did violate a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, a United Nations report has concluded. Erik Prince is the former head of the security contractor Blackwater Worldwide and a prominent Trump supporter. The New York Times received a confidential UN report which, as per the media house, reveals that Pri...

Pollak: Biden Risks Putting the Middle East Back on a Path to War 29 Jan 2021 Presidents like to say that their predecessors left them a mess. Yet in Middle East policy, President Donald Trump left his successor an extraordinary gift of peace and stability. Peace agreements were emerging almost weekly between Israel and her Arab neighbors. Iran, struggling under the burden of U.S. sanctions, was isolated, broke, and wracked by internal turmoil. In Afghanistan, a tentative deal with the Taliban ...

Foreign forces in Libya ignored a pull out deadline set by a UN-backed ceasefire deal on Saturday. An unidentified US intelligence officer was quoted in news reports as saying that there was 'no intent' by Turkish or Russian forces to leave Libya and abide by the UN deal. The developments signify the fragility of peace efforts in Libya, which has seen a decade of conflict.

Congress has voted for similar things previously. if that they were to sue and challenge this declaration. things would really be interesting. and members of congress had tried this in the past say we did not approve of the libya war. it ended up being thrown out of court by a judge that said you could pass legislation to stop the war. >> there will be an interesting challenge if it comes from lawmakers weve have all of these other different emergencies. why had they not been struck down. of cou...

That we dont get any point of safety assigned by european stage which means to be already stuck at sea for now fourteen days and were not a cruise i mean its went on the mediterranean and yes we can keep a life show. but its just not a state where we can ensure the wellbeing of the people who bought it what is the word was the condition of the people on board right now well i. must imagine they come from libya war they come week they come on nourished and they come traumatised and right now we o...

. but its just not a state where we can ensure the wellbeing of the people who are what is the order was the condition of the people on board right now well i. must imagine they come from libya war they come week they come on the rest and they come traumatized and right now we of course took care of them and so far the situation is stable on board. because the fear that were going to have a really traumatized nation actually is really high and we have to keep them under attack because of the bad...

The arguments always benefit the administration because they can always change the narrative. >> nobody watched the libya war, horrible ratings. he didnt even get a second station. >> tom: shuli, i agree with my panel here, probably even at jessica. it was ridiculous for the press to talk about the crowd size, this wasnt one person tweeting it out, all of the news organizations devoted time to talking about comparing these photos. >> when i saw the turnout at, the empty white spaces were people ...

Should be removed for the greater benefit of the country, eventually, after a solution can be figured out. >> in another part of the middle east, richard, more honesty about the post-gadhafi reality. >> reporter: he talked about libya and he brought us back to that benghazi moment. if you remember, and a lot of people dont exactly remember how and what the rationale given at the time for launching the libya war, the libya war had been going on for sometime and rebels primarily in the benghazi ar...