Secret files: US officials aided Gaddafi
Documents found at the headquarters of the intelligence service of deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi appear to indicate that his regime -- despite its constant anti-American rhetoric -- maintained direct communications with influential figures in the US.
All human beings are born free
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Facing the Dictator
Abdul Hafiz Ghoga is a Libyan human rights lawyer, who rose to prominence as the spokesman for the National Transitional Council and later as the Council's Vice Chairman. As Chairman of the Benghazi Bar Association, he defended political prisoners.
Ten Myths About the Libyan Revolution
I have taken a lot of heat for my support of the [Libyan] revolution and of the UN-authorized intervention by the Arab League and NATO that kept it from being crushed. [...] I agree with President Obama and his citation of Reinhold Niebuhr: You cannot protect all victims of mass murder everywhere all the time. But where you can do some good, you should do it, even if you cannot do all good. [...] Given the controversies about the revolution, it is worthwhile reviewing the myths about the Libyan Revolution that led so many observers to make so many fantastic or just mistaken assertions about it.
http://www.juancole.com/2011/08/top-ten-myths-about-the-libya-war.html
The Constitution Will Be Tweeted
The newest government in the world was designed with help from comments on the internet. God help us all.After Iceland’s economic collapse in 2008, the island nation decided it was time to write a new constitution, this one not based on its parent country of Denmark but rather made from the original ideas of its citizens.
Learned Helplessness
When young, circus elephants are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven deep into the ground. They pull and yank, but the chain is too strong, the stake too rooted. One day they give up, having learned that they cannot pull free, and from that day forward they can be "chained" with a slender rope. When this enormous animal feels any resistance, though it has the strength to pull the whole circus tent over, it stops trying. Because it believes it cannot. "You will never amount to anything. You cannot sing. You are not smart enough. You are a loser. You should have more realistic goals. You are the reason our marriage broke up. Without you kids I would have had a chance. You are worthless." This opera is being sung in homes all over America right now, the stakes driven into the ground, the heavy chains attached, the children reaching the point they believe they cannot pull free. And at that point, they cannot. Unless and until something changes their view, unless they grasp the striking fact that they are tied with a thread, that the chain is an illusion, that they were fooled, and ultimately, that whoever so fooled them was wrong about them and that they were wrong about themselves -- unless all this happens, these children are not likely to show society their positive attributes as adults.
http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/discouragement/helplessness/circus_elephants.html
Donkey Subscriber Line
In a bid to quash a popular rebellion, the Syrian government has shut down pretty much all electronic communications inside the country and to overseas. Cut off from the internet, protestors, journalists, and human rights activists have resorted to communications networks from another era. To get the news out, activists have been smuggling videos to Jordan through the desert and across a nearly 80-kilometer border Jordan shares with Syria. Desperate Syrians have been using a helping hand from smugglers to cross the border, either by walking or on the backs of donkeys. Some risk approaching the border with Jordanian cellphones to report to the outside world and send clips. It is a dangerous task because the Syrian and Jordanian armies traditionally have the area under heavy surveillance to prevent the smuggling of drugs and weapons into the kingdom or further.
http://www.dbune.com/news/world/6097-donkeys-take-over-from-dsl-as-syria-shuts-down-internet.html
Tribute FM
The first English-language radio station based in Libya is now broadcasting through a website out of the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi, according to the opposition National Transitional Council. "Tribute FM is the brainchild of a number of British Libyans who understand the importance of reaching out to the Libyan diaspora around the world as well as Libyans at home," said a statement by the NTC. You can listen to Tribute FM here: http://tributefm.com/player.php
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