#Derna (Libya)

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View of Derna, Libya

Italian vintage postcard

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One year passed and no one was held accountable for what happened.

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By Scott Scheffer

Blame for the horrible flooding that has killed nearly 20,000 people in the city of Derna, with many thousands still unaccounted for in northeastern Libya, belongs squarely on the doorstep of Western capitalism and the U.S. imperialist military menace. The 2011 U.S.-led NATO war on Libya left the country in a weakened, vulnerable state. This catastrophe, the latest deadly extreme weather event, points more clearly to the link between unbridled U.S. capitalism and militarism and the struggle to mitigate the global warming crisis.

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10,000 people are missing after 2 dams and 4 bridges collapsed.

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Libya flooding

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Les sauveteurs russes déployés dans la ville libyenne de Derna continuent de retirer les débris laissés par les inondations dévastatrices qui ont tué des milliers de personnes et détruit des quartiers entiers.

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Aisha Gaddafi made an Instagram post about the floods

As well as sending condolences, she says she often spent childhood summers in Derna, with her mother, uncles and maternal grandparents

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Greetings from Derna, Libya

Italian vintage postcard

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What is systematically covered up, however, is the NATO powers’ role in instigating this civil war that created conditions for the flood. However, top NATO officials launched the 2011 war in Libya, relying on the professional liars in the major media, academic establishment and the middle class pseudo-left parties to sell the war as a crusade for democracy and human rights. These forces all have blood on their hands.

This includes US President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy—whose governments pressed the hardest for the 2011 war in Libya. There are also the major media outlets like the New York Times and CNN, which peddle CIA-dictated propaganda, and legions of cowardly and conformist academics like Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan and pseudo-left political operatives like Professor Gilbert Achcar of France’s New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA).

A groundswell of anger is building about whether warnings about the state of the two dams were ignored, the failure to find new contractors to maintain the dam after Libya’s 2011 civil war, and the precise instructions issued by the police and security directorate on the night of the flood. A Turkish firm had been contracted to work on the dams in 2007, but left Libya in 2011 when fighting broke out, and had not returned.

Many overseas contractors did not return to Libya after 2011, either because they were pursuing compensation claims or did not regard the country as safe.

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Derna Receives First Commercial Ship after Catastrophe

The Libyan city of Derna that was devastated more than a year ago by Storm Daniel celebrated Friday the entering of the first commercial ship to its newly reopened seaport after being repaired from huge damages caused by the storm.

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HAVE A NICE DAY FOR ALL

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“The Benediction Never Ends” at Westminster Presbyterian Church

On September 17, 2023, Rev. Dr. Tim Hart-Andersen, Senior Pastor at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church, delivered the second of his last seven sermons, “The Benediction Never Ends at Westminster Presbyterian Church,” before he retires at the end of October. Here is the text of that sermon along with a summary of this Sunday’s worship service. Call to Confession and Prayer of…

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Of all the things he’s found in the blue Mediterranean waters of Derna, the many bodies of children with vacant eye sockets and protruding bones haunt Bashir Saqr El-Hassi the most.

The 42-year-old Libyan coastguard diver is solemn as he describes the experience of pulling out bodies that are still in the sea in the aftermath of the devastating dam rupture near Derna in early September.