As people across Egypt continued resisting and rising against the brutal dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, it is quite clear they will not stop until he goes. Quite clear to everyone, that is, apart from the US Secretary of State...
Read MoreThe Arab world’s sleeping giant has finally woken from its slumber after years of being drugged and mugged by the West. Having witnessed – and experienced – firsthand the brutality of the Egyptian and Tunisian...
Read MoreSomething really wonderful happened outside the Tunisian Embassy in London the other day as a crowd of us gathered to continue the demand for justice in the people’s revolution. I was standing next to a sister, and, with tears...
Read MoreThe Western media has been somewhat caught out by the rapid demise of one of the most brutal dictators in the world. But not to worry, the CIA famously missed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 after working around the clock...
Read MoreHe might still be living in the lap of luxury, but make no mistake Tunisia’s former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family are prisoners. Like birds in a gilded cage, they are languishing in a palace in one of...
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Over the last few days we have seen some of the bravest people facing down some of the worst....
Read MoreAmerica’s international standing as a fair and just country does not match its superpower status as the world’s greatest democracy. When it comes to basic human rights it is there in the gutter alongside some of the...
Read MoreI wonder if Hillary Clinton really believes in the pompous invective that shoots from her lips with the rapidity of machine gun fire. We had a classic example of it recently when she let rip in her grating, robotic monotones...
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