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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…

Security and Stability w/START Treaty & Russians

The upper house of Russia’s Parliament today approved the START nuclear arms control treaty at the heart of a new thaw in post-Cold-War relations between Moscow and Washington. The treaty, signed by U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev back in April, requires both countries to cut their arsenals of nuclear warheads…

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Prohibition: The grotesque nightmare of cultural folly

Prohibition is a sickening horror and the ocean of hypocrisy, incompetence, corruption and human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless. Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a…

The Pakistani army adopts ‘eye-for-an-eye’ against the Taliban

SUMMARY executions, torture, humiliation; several videos have recently appeared on the Internet which reveal the dark side of the Pakistani army struggle against the Taliban. These videos were filmed during an assault launched against the Taliban in the Swat valley a little under a year ago. One of them (below) shows the execution of a…