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NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state.

NATO’s military 2011 intervention, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Mua

The pretext for the assault was that Gaddafi was about to launch a military operation to massacre civilians in Benghazi where rebellious forces had seized power. It had as much substance as the charge that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, another example of utopian social engineering that left over a million Iraqi dead and millions more driven from their homes.

“We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and

Jean Bricmont, a Belgian commentator and globally-renowned figure of the anti-imperialism movement, says the Global South was “waiting for an opportunity to revolt against the hegemon (US).