Posts Tagged ‘Libya’

Down with the Benevolent Dictator! But what is to come thereafter?

Down with the Benevolent Dictator! But what is to come thereafter?

What will replace these dictatorial regimes once the Arab Spring is over? This is a question luring in the background that is vital to answer. It all relies on how these states transition, aside from the fact that many of these countries, like Libya, are suffering from a power vacuum, which can and has led [...]


U.S. water doctrine: the actual goal in Libya

U.S. water doctrine: the actual goal in Libya

Naomi Klein wrote the Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism in 2008 to describe how America’s “free market” policies have dominated the globe by exploiting countries in times of disasters.  The United States has pulled strings to take advantage of shocked peoples with rapid speed—through “corporate reengineering” of societies.  This “shock doctrine,” as Klein [...]