Are "Democracy Now" Correspondents in Libya Feeding Us the State Department and Pentagon Line?

Global Research
Bruce A. Dixon

Is the independent media movement's flagship radio-TV show Democracy Now! pushing the State Department and Pentagon line on Libya instead of "going where the silence is" and telling the truth without fear or favor? Are its Libyan correspondents embedded with the US-backed Libyan rebels to such an extent that they have minimized and failed to follow up persistent reports of ethnic cleansing in Libya or investigate whether alleged "mercenaries" ever existed or Khadaffi's "massacres" ever took place?

Have Democracy Now's correspondents in Libya, Anjali Kamat and Sharif Abdel-Kodous minimized or avoided reporting upon the persecution of black Libyans and sub-Saharan African migrants by US-backed Libyan rebels?

Have they reported massacres that may not have happened, and mercenaries who might not have existed?

Have they ignored or minimized the impact of US and NATO bombing and the presence of Saudi, Qatari and other foreign forces on the ground in Libya, also in support of the US-backed Libyan rebels?

Have they simply embedded themselves with US-backed forces in Libya to pass the views of the Pentagon and State Department to us as "independent, unembedded news"?

It's hard to know all of this for certain. We're over here, they're over there, and Libya is very much a war zone.

I'm not in Libya and never have bee [...]

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