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Front Cover ; Copyright ; Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Liberal Imperialism and the New Scramble for Africa ; CHAPTER ONE: Sirte: Keystone of Independence ; Welcome to Sirte Today; From a Tent outside Sirte: Defining a New Libya; Sirte: An African Dream Turned into a Nightmare; Sirte, the New Pan-Africanism, and U.S. Scrutiny; Sirte's Place in the Development of Libya; Sirte: Reforms, Divisions, and Raised Expectations; CHAPTER TWO: Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism ; Sirte: Reagan, Regime Change, Rapprochement(?)
Sirte: MI6 and Early Islamist Attacks against GaddafiBarack Obama and How Empire Revisited Sirte; Sirte: Toxic to Empire; Sirte: Fantasy Land of the Insurgents; Who Voted With Their Feet?; War Crimes: Civilians Targeted in NATO Attacks; Liberal Intervention and the Myth of "Protecting Civilians"; Liberating Sirte: Massacres, Looting, Torture, Racism; Save Benghazi, Slay Sirte: Under Cover of Humanitarian Intervention; Goal No. 1: Regime Change; Hunting for Gaddafi in Sirte; Celebration at the Safari Club; CHAPTER THREE: Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its Discontents
Africa and the Green Book: Getting Past EurocentrismMandela and Gaddafi: Moral Pan-Africanism; Libya, Gaddafi, and Pan-Africanism:Anti-imperialism after Pan-Arabism; Libyan Aid and Investment in Africa; The Security Dimension of Libyan Pan-Africanism; CEN-SAD: A Victory for Libya; Against Africans: Roots of Racist Revolt within Libya; Post-Gaddafi: Closing Libya's Door on Africa; CHAPTER FOUR: A War against Africa: AFRICOM, NATO, and Racism ; AFRICOM: Militarizing U.S. Relations with Africa, and Gaddafi's Defiance; Libyan Defiance
AFRICOM Overthrows an Opponent, Creating Opportunity for the U.S.The Racist War: Racist Rebels and Racist Humanitarians; Airports and African Mercenaries: Origin of the No-Fly Zone; Social Media: Racial Hysteria Supporting Foreign Intervention; Mainstream Media: Disseminating and Inciting Racial Fear; Early Reports of Atrocities: Filed and Ignored; Rebel Bravado: Admissions of Mass Lynching; After the Fall of Tripoli: Ethnic Cleansing by the Insurgents; Who Cares About African Migrants or Black Libyans?; CHAPTER FIVE: Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency ; "Genocide Prevention"
"Gaddafi is Bombing His Own People""Save Benghazi"; The UN and the Right to Speak for Libya; Amnesty International versus Libya; "Viagra-fueled Mass Rape"; "Protecting Civilians"; CONCLUSION: The Aftermath: A New War on Africa ; African Reactions to Regime Change; Gaddafi is Gone. Oh no!; The African Union: Denouncing an Unnecessary and Provocative War; South Africa: The ANC against Regime Change, Recolonization; Uganda: The Rebels Condemn Themselves; Zimbabwe: NATO Liars and Brutal Aggressors; Regional Destabilization in the Aftermath of NATO; Empire or Dignity; References; Index
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Slouching towards Sirte : NATO's war on Libya and Africa / / Maximilian Forte
