Arab People: From Powerless To Proud
It started in Tunisia with the Jasmine Revolution, then spread quickly to Egypt like a Tsunami wave. The Arab Revolution is on its way with what could be a rapid and organic propagation to Algeria, Yemen, Morocco, Syria, Jordan and even the Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Arabs, in the Middle-East and across the world, feel […]
Mubarak And His Thugs: Trying To Starve The Revolution
The army is in the streets doing nothing, allowing chaos. They are not being employed for or against the people. It’s a passive-aggressive stand-down. The people are jubilant, but the siege against them has only begun. Looting is beginning and hunger will be soon to follow. Mubarak is going to starve the revolution unless an alternative government can be set up.
Arab Revolution: Israel Should Compromise While It Still Can
Egypt has entered a 3rd day of historic and violent protest. Inspired by the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, thousands of Egyptian protesters have confronted the police in violent clashes in defiance of a ban on public demonstration. Just like Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak has ruled Egypt with an iron-fist and a taste for corruption […]
Tunisia, WikiLeaks And Food Crisis: Forces For A Global Revolution
It would be hard to contest that our world is in crisis, or at least at a turning point. The models which were developed at the start of the industrial revolution have either failed or are crumbling in front of us in “real time”. If communism died in the 80’s with the collapse of the […]
America’s Human Rights Message to China: Do As I Say, Not As I Do!
This does not excuse, by any means, the human rights violations committed by China, or any other country for that matter. This article only addresses America. If America thinks that it is the country to proudly mount a soap-box in defense of human rights and respect for humanity, it needs to take a long, hard, honest look at itself, and broach the subject as a shared challenge rather than with a disingenuous air of superiority. The only American exceptionalism on display here is its exceptional ability to excuse itself for that which it would gladly condemn and prosecute others.
