Thirty three years of dictatorship have come to an end today in Yemen. As reported earlier, President Ali Abdullah Saleh will step down from his seat immediately making him the fourth authoritarian ruler to have been ousted in the Arab Spring. Saleh signed an agreement in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, transferring power to […]
Read MoreAccording to Al Jazeera at least 70 people have been killed in the “bloodiest day” in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s government, many of the victims in the province of Deraa. Syrian Security Forces are responsible for the majority of the killings according to human rights groups in Syria. Regional condemnation of Assad’s regime continues, […]
Read MoreLibya and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea were quite friendly prior to the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. Now that Gaddafi’s dictatorship has joined the likes of Ozymandias, Kim Jong-il is wary to have those North Koreans return, most of whom were sent abroad to Libya and elsewhere to work on anything from […]
Read MoreIn a further continuation of the Arab Spring developments aka history unrolling before our very eyes, clerics in Syria are now speaking out against the regime. Sariya al-Rifai, a pillar of the orthodox clerical establishment, has broken ranks with the government and is openly warning President al-Assad to stop the crackdown, citing its being an […]
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