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 […]
Bahrain
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Contagion
After WW2 large numbers of countries fell to a (now discredited) political philosophy called communism. Firstly in Eastern Europe, then elsewhere in the world. In an April 7, 1954 news […]