Tag Archives: Arab uprisings

The fog of war

Posted on Saturday 16 June 2012 by Rob Godfrey

Last Tuesday the UN issued a report stating that children in Syria were being tortured in detention and slaughtered in massacres, and this was being done almost entirely by members of the Syrian army (you can find the report here … Continue reading →

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Absolutely disgusting

Posted on Friday 3 June 2011 by Rob Godfrey

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body for world motor sport, announced yesteday that the Bahrain Grand Prix is on again and will take place on 30th October (see here). The lower life forms who govern Bahrain should … Continue reading →

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Suffer the children

Posted on Tuesday 31 May 2011 by Rob Godfrey

Tortured and killed: Hamza al-Khateeb, age 13

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One of the biggest cons in history

Posted on Saturday 26 February 2011 by Rob Godfrey

An Al Jazeera article by Yasmine Ryan expresses it far better than I could. Here’s an extract from the article… Keenan says that by focusing on terrorism and immigration, Western countries have damaged their own interests. Whether it is the … Continue reading →

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Islamophobia

Posted on Sunday 20 February 2011 by Rob Godfrey

I was at a dinner party last night and the subject of the North Africa and Middle East uprisings came up. Just about everyone sitting around that table thought that the uprisings would lead to Islamic extremists seizing power. Iran … Continue reading →

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The insane old gits who run ‘Totalitarian-land’

Posted on Saturday 19 February 2011 by Rob Godfrey

As the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions spill over into the rest of the region, and it gets widely reported via new digital media, many folks in the west will be getting their first taste of Totalitarian-land: the photos and videos … Continue reading →

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