White Horse Apocalypse: A Mormon in the White House
Will the Saints Come Marching In ?
Gadafii Mercenaries paid between $300 and $2,000 a day
After decades of financing and training rebels and liberation movements, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is accused of using his influence to amass an army of mercenaries from across sub-Saharan Africa. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Chad, Mali and Zimbabwe: One only has to name a conflict, rebel group or despot in Africa to find someone the Libyan…
Three Horseman of a New Apocalypse
What a world! Much of North Africa remains roiled with mass protests against autocratic or crazed leaders. One predictable result has been skyrocketing oil prices with potentially adverse consequences for recovering economies. And, in the United States, a possible shutdown of government looms because America’s two political parties prefer to indulge in a game of…
The West Owes Libyans Protection, MORAL OUTRAGE TRUMPS OIL
“In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Once assembled,…
Egypt: Draft of New Constitution
Why reject the Constitutional Amendments by Ashraf Elibrachy on Sunday, February 27, 2011
Libya Has Its Own Hero: A Young Lawyer called “Triple Fathi” [photo]
Benghazi – AFP- (TRANSLATION The intifada was inspired by the Libyan Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, which toppled the puppet regimes in neighboring countries, they also have a hero, a lawyer Fathi, who formed his arrest Triple spark ignited popular movements. After Muhammad Bouazizi, vendor mobile young university graduate who burnt himself as a result of…
New Decade has begun with A Glorious Example of the Indefatigable Courage of the Human Spirit.
Anyone who read “The Yacoubian Building”, a novel published in 2002 by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany, will regard the revolution in Egypt as long overdue. The novel’s readers will not have been astonished by the ease with which the rotting hulk of Hosni Mubarak’s regime was dashed against the rocks, nor by the spirit…