Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil, citing a ‘witch-hunt’ against Bolsonaro

Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that his administration will hit Brazil with a 50% tariff on products sent to the US, tying the move to what he called the "witch-hunt" trial against its former president, Jair Bolsonaro...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-tariffs-brunei-libya-moldova

 

Lockerbie bombing: Abu Agila Masud is in U.S. custody, authorities say - The Washington Post

The former Libyan intelligence operative is accused of making the explosive device that destroyed a Pan Am jet on Dec. 21, 1988, killing all 259 people on board the Boeing 747 and 11 others on the ground...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/11/lockerbie-bombing-suspect-masud/

Who’s to blame for the hiccup in North Korea talks? South Koreans say Bolton - The Washington Post

South Korea's president will meet Trump on Tuesday as problems cloud a scheduled summit with Kim. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/whos-to-blame-for-the-hiccup-in-north-korea-talks-south-koreans-say-bolton/2018/05/21/f5099324-5cdf-11e8-8c93-8cf33c21da8d_story.html

The Trump administration just sent a dark, threatening message to Kim Jong Un - Business Insider

US National Security Adviser John Bolton said he favors a "Libya model" when dealing with North Korean denuclearization. Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, gave up weapons of mass destruction, but fell from power when the US and others backed an uprising against him. Gaddafi was violently and sexually assaulted before his death in the wake of the uprising. At the time North Korea said Gaddafi's fate showed why Pyongyang should keep its own weapons. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admins-bolton-sends-dark-message-to-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-2018-4

Revenge of the tribes: How the American Empire could fall | Amy Chua

Yale professor Amy Chua has two precautionary tales for Americans, and their names are Libya and Iraq. "We’re starting to see in America something that I’ve seen in other countries that is not good," says Chua. "We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to get to the point where we look at people on the other side of the political spectrum and we see them not just as people that we disagree with but literally as our enemy, as immoral, “un-American” people."...
https://youtu.be/8LZ71c9VVn0

The Libyan Slave Trade Has Shocked the World. Here’s What You Should Know -- TIME

The report has drawn attention to an issue that aid and migrant groups say has gone on for years ....
http://time.com/5042560/libya-slave-trade/

Slave Trade Sweeps Up Migrants In North Africa (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Slaves on the auction block in 2017 in North Africa. We're joined by CNN reporters who helped expose it in Libya, and a New Yorker writer who's also chronicled migrant exploitation.

Interview: 

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/11/29/slave-trade-sweeps-up-migrants-in-north-africa

https://youtu.be/WMU-H52lZ0I

Bloomberg: Russia Urges Trump to Help Fix Syria, Libya Crises Amid Setbacks

Russia is urging U.S. President Donald Trump to help it resolve conflicts in Syria and Libya, where the Kremlin is finding it tough going after seizing the initiative in a bid to act as a leading power in the region. ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-03/russia-urges-trump-to-help-fix-syria-libya-crises-amid-setbacks?bpolANews=true

The US intervention in Libya was a key turning point for Putin in his attitude toward the US (Business Insider)

The 2011 American military intervention in Libya was a turning point in Russian President Vladimir Putin's attitude toward the US, according to a lengthy report from The New Yorker examining Russia's interference in the 2016 US election. The intervention was spearheaded by the secretary of state at the time, Hillary Clinton, who persuaded President Barack Obama, wary of war with yet another Muslim country, to join a NATO-led coalition in ousting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-us-libya-intervention-hillary-clinton-2017-2

Trump envoy blocks ex-Palestinian PM from UN job 'to support Israel' (the guardian)

Nikki Haley, US ambassador to United Nations, rejects choice of Salam Fayyad as Libya peace broker and declares UN 'biased to the detriment of our allies' ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/trump-envoy-blocks-ex-palestinian-pm-from-un-job-to-support-israel?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

The Media Has Failed to Explain the New War on ISIS in Libya and the Chaos Wrought by NATO Regime Change

Libya remains embroiled in chaos. Its U.N.-backed government is falling apart, and internal wars continue to be waged on multiple fronts. ISIS ravages the north of the country. The U.S. is bombing it — again, in the second war in five years. But what is rarely communicated in media reports is that the only reason ISIS is in Libya in the first place is because of the 2011 NATO regime change operation that toppled the government, giving Islamist extremists a vacuum in which to expand....
http://www.alternet.org/world/media-has-failed-explain-new-war-isis-libya-and-chaos-wrought-nato-regime-change

The Never-Ending War: U.S. Announces New Front Against ISIS in Libya

The U.S. military carried out two airstrikes in Libya against ISIS fighters on Monday in the latest escalation of the U.S. war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The strikes took place in the city of Sirte. Pentagon officials said the campaign would continue until ISIS has been driven from the city, which it took over last year. Libya has been engulfed in fighting after a U.S.-backed military intervention ousted longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The Pentagon said Libya’s Western-backed unity government requested the airstrikes. The so-called unity government is one of three competing governments that claim legitimacy in the country. We speak to Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She’s author of "Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/zOxsVelcK0g

New Report Details The Horrors Of Life Under ISIS In Sirte, Libya

Crucifixions, executions, food shortages, forced prayer: These are features of life in the ISIS stronghold of Sirte, Libya, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

ISIS has controlled Sirte since last August. The central Mediterranean city is the hometown of Libya's former dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the site of some of the final battles of Libya's 2011 revolution. Human Rights Watch interviewed 45 residents of the city for its report, which paints a vivid picture of how ISIS controls every aspect of life, "down to the length of men's trousers, the breadth and color of women's gowns, and the instruction students receive in state schools."

"We were filled with hope. Then step by step, Daesh [ISIS] took over. Now we feel we are cursed," one resident who fled Sirte told HRW....
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/18/478550271/new-report-details-the-horrors-of-life-under-isis-in-sirte-libya?ft=nprml&f=1001

Watch Donald Trump Lie About His Positions On Libya And Iraq

During a Friday phone interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he “would have stayed out of Libya” back in 2011. Contrasting his own position with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who pushed to get the United States more involved in the effort to take out Muammar Qaddafi, Trump said deposing the dictator led to “more destabilization” in the region. Trump also said he “would have stayed out of Iraq too.”

Trump’s remarks won plaudits from host Joe Scarborough, who responded by saying, “There are a lot of people who say you have an inconsistent foreign policy, but it sounds pretty consistent.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/05/20/3780390/watch-donald-trump-lie-about-his-positions-on-libya-and-iraq/