What is ISIS?
ISIS have recently attracted attention by invading Iraq. The Western media and many online commentators have been describing them as al Qaeda, or as Syrian opposition fighters. They are neither […]
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Al Jazeera is just great
So the highly oppressed Shia majority in Bahrain are forgotten about by the Western media and plans are afoot to re-schedule the F1 motor race there. And Al Jazeera has […]
Don’t forget Bahrain
The above video gives you an idea just how brutal the regime is, using massively excessive force against their own people to retain undemocratic power. Amazingly the barbaric regime is […]