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. […]
Bashar al-Assad
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 […]
Arab spring attention fatigue
The main job of British newspapers is to sell newspapers. The main job of the broadcast news services is to take customers away from other broadcast news services, ratings matter […]
Yet more Syria videos
These are immensely important. Syria is one of the most repressive states on earth, the ruling dynasty do not allow basic, fundamental human rights to their population. They also have […]
Syria today
And still the world sits on its collective hands. Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of people have taken, bravely, to the streets again to protest at their lack of basic […]
That $25 million Osama bin Laden reward
There are a couple of things that don’t quite add up over the demise of Osama bin Laden. The first is that the American story of how they found him […]
Syria. 90 unarmed peaceful protestors shot dead on Friday.
Even Obama is talking tough: “This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now”. But just as the Saudis sent troops to support the nasty regime […]
Mission creep in Libya
Mission creep seems to be inevitable in any military venture, the Americans sent a few military advisers to Vietnam and ended up in a long and bloody war, we went […]