To 21st century ears, the very concept of a “great Arab leader” sounds more like a paradox than an earnest phenomenon. After the death of Nasser, the Arab world gradually lost any cohesive political identity and by the 21st century, it had descended into a chaotic political quagmire of internal […]
The extremely militant US Senator Marco Rubio has been widely criticised after he Tweeted photos of former Libyan revolutionary Muammar Gaddafi speaking to his supporters, alongside a photo of Gaddafi taken seconds before he was assassinated by terrorists. Rubio later Tweeted a photo of former Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu speaking […]
It has been that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”. Nowhere is this statement more true than in respect of the global proliferation of narcotics. Just about every government and every individual knows the dangers of radical international terror groups including […]
In 2011, when Libyan Revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi appeared before his nation saying that seditious elements and foreign agitators were on narcotics and thus deprived of their own cognitive abilities, he was laughed at by the western mainstream media who cheered on his subsequent assassination at the hands of al-Qaeda proxies […]
Today marks the release of Palestinian prisoner Ahed Tamimi who served eight months in an Israeli jail after slapping a soldier during protests against the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements near Nabi Salih. Ahed Tamimi’s plight became symbolic of a Palestinian people struggling against a militarily superior occupier force without any tangible results. The […]
In 1986, US President Ronald Reagan vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, although Congressional support for the Act was strong enough so that American Congressmen opted to override the Presidential veto. Even so, Reagan’s Treasury Department remained accused of minimally enforcing the sanctions on Apartheid South Africa. Reagan’s sympathies with the Apartheid […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte continues to stand by remarks in which he criticised the deity worshipped by the purveyors of organised religion as “stupid” while describing his own faith as a belief in a universal God who is logical, loving and forgiving. When answering questions regarding a possible apology over […]
There were many fiendish reasons behind the 2011 invasion of Libya which turned the nation with the highest living standards in modern African history into a failed state built on a terrorist training camp. The first and most obvious reason was Libya’s new project to create a gold backed pan-African […]
The Many Faces of Tribalism That there are more varieties of tribal identities than there are countries in the world goes without saying. Yet within those tribal identities there exist countless little sub-identities, many vastly different from one another, yet all nevertheless have one thing in common: they rarely change. […]
The former President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy has been arrested for allegedly taking millions of Euros in campaign donations from Libya’s former revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy’s first and only election victory in 2007, was said to be handsomely financed by Gaddafi after France became a commercial partner of the Great […]