Arab Spring 2011 – DEMAGAGA

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Libya Unstable After the Departure of Qaddafi

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.

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.

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 […]

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

Obama tells Assad to give it up.

The jig is up for Bashar al-Assad. Much of Europe and now the US is telling him to stop slaughtering his people and step aside. With Qadaffi rumored to be seeking exile in Tunisia, events in this region of the world just keep getting more promising. What shape these regimes take in the future will […]

Qaddafi making plans to leave Libya? Exile in Tunisia?

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.

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 […]

Syria’s enemies to divide country into three.

Yet more speculation and paranoia out of Pravda’s Sergei Balmasov. I love Pravda for its conspiratorial stance on issues and its typically different take on events from most Western papers. In this interesting piece, Balmasov claims that the 11th August Statement of the UN Security Council regarding Syria is a ‘carte blanche’ for the enemies […]