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 spring
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
President Dmitry Medvedev does irony
This is an absolute classic, talking about the current disgusting government violence against unarmed citizens in Syria, Medvedev said that the Syrians should: “carry out urgent reforms, come to terms […]
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 […]
Nuclear proliferation and Iran
So Iran seems to be trying very hard to make a nuclear bomb and you would wonder why they would go to so much effort and expense. Could it be […]
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 […]
Cameron supreme in parliament
Yesterday was a virtuoso display from David Cameron in the House of Commons. Before it Ed Milliband had been calling for Cameron to resign, by the end of the day […]
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 […]