Why we should be talking to the Islamic State
(Throughout click on the highlighted text to see further analysis) This article is your complete education about the Islamic state. It is a lot different to what your government and […]
Arab League
ISIS are very misunderstood
I have already written here about what ISIS is and where they came from, so will try not to cover the same ground twice. ISIS/ISIL, variously known as Islamic State in […]
Where is Gaddafi?
Masonic handshake? Masonic handshake? This is interesting. Gaddafi makes regular spoken pronouncements, there was one yesterday, but hasn’t been seen in a very long time. So the reality is that […]
Gaddafi finished, plenty more to go
The Arab League is an organisation whose 22 members are mainly the artificial states set up when the Ottoman empire collapsed in 1918 at the end of WW1. These states […]
Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud does irony
So now we have the King of Saudi Arabia joining in the advice to the Syrian government, obviously as part of a multi national stand up comedy routine. And obviously […]
Bashar al-Assad is finished
Warning, not for the squeamish. So the UN Security Council find themselves unable to issue a resolution and instead make a statement, with one temporary member (Lebanon) dissociating themselves from […]
It is silly season
Now is the time of year when MPs take their extended summer breaks and when, traditionally, the major source of news shuts down. Newspapers usually fill up their pages with […]
In Syria today
Friday is the Islamic holy day, so people are not at work. They go to the mosques to pray then they demonstrate against the brutal dictatorship of the Assad family. […]
Despicable Bahrain government abuses British libel system
Everyone knows by now just how despicable the Al Khalifa dictatorship in Bahrain is, they torture and kill their own citizens and deny them basic human rights. Everyone also knows […]
Syria, staring into the abyss
Of all the countries involved in the Arab Spring uprisings Syria is the most important at so many levels. They have the most repressed population with the least human rights. […]
Another violent Friday in Syria
After Friday prayers the people come onto the streets to demonstrate about their repression. And government forces get on with their job of beating them up, arresting them and killing […]
Have the Americans suddenly decided that they like democracy and human rights?
As I have written on here previously America has a long tradition of bringing down democratically elected governments and of giving massive support to rather nasty dictators. They found this […]