October 31, 2012 – While the hurricane Sandy caused destruction currently blows most other news off of the global media’s front pages, the destruction of the Libyan town of Sirte has gone largely unreported by the same media. A reader however pointed out to me that a photo of the NATO-destroyed hometown of Muammar Gaddafi shows surprising similarities with a photo of destroyed homes and businesses in the Rockaway section of the Queens borough of New York City which was hit by Sandy.
Sirte, a coastal town of around 100,000 residents, once was considered to be the center of urban development in Libya but became the target of NATO and its “revolutionary Libyan rebels” soon after the so-called fall of Tripoli in August 2011, not in the least because of its imperturbable loyalty to Muammar Gaddafi and the Jamahiriya government. After weeks of siege and horrifying war crimes committed by NATO and the rebels in the Orwellian version of “protecting civilians”, Sirte’s inhabitants turned into homeless refugees and the city was named the modern day Stalingrad. Continue reading





