Arab Spring 2011 – DEMAGAGA

While the hated dictator Muammar Qaddafi is dead and gone, the people of Libya still suffer as instability deepens and eastern Libya increasingly acts semi-autonomously in a movement led by former Libyan army officer Idris al-Rahel. The region’s top tribal leaders convened in Benghazi to plan a unilateral move toward statehood with only a loose […]

Moroccan Elections Won by Islamists.

November 27, 2011

News from Rabat about the recent Moroccan elections paints a positive outcome for the nation’s Islamist party which is believed to have benefitted greatly from its participation in the Arab Spring earlier this year. Islamist parties have tended to fare well in the public’s view given their opposition to many of the region’s long-standing dictators. […]

Middle Eastern countries increase spending on social programs in wake of unrest in neighboring states.

September 20, 2011

A report from FuelFix.com states that Middle Eastern nations are going to increase their spending on social programs in the wake of unrest in the region in order to quell or stave off potential dissent. With oil prices at record highs for an extended period of time, Gulf States look to make $1 trillion dollars […]

Qaddafi making plans to leave Libya? Exile in Tunisia?

August 19, 2011

According to this latest report from MSNBC, Muammar Qaddafi, unrepentant dictator of Libya for many decades, is possibly planning his exile in neighboring Tunisia, making him yet another dictator to be toppled this year. Although nothing is definite, official in US intelligence expect this transition could occur within the next couple of days. As anyone […]

Pravda claims that Turkey is trying to push Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s regime to collapse.

August 18, 2011

Pravda surmises that if Syria’s Bashar al-Assad were to accept Turkey’s demands to cease actions against demonstrators and to welcome free elections that the regime would certainly collapse. Pravda’s Sergei Balmasov writes that the ‘peaceful demonstrators’ are armed with Kalashnikov rifles and that Turkey is actively exacerbating the situation on the ground in order to […]