Avoiding a European Intifada
In the wake of the Islamic attacks in Paris last night, as the death toll gradually rises as more and more bodies are discovered and as more people expire from fatal injuries, people all over Europe are today realising that what we are witnessing could have happened in any large European town or city, and probably will unless something radical is done to prevent it, now! Several years ago, something could have easily been done…
News in Brief
By David Yorkshire: Events in the Middle East have taken a turn for the worse recently with the news that two of the letters have been stolen from the terrorist group ISIS. Expert linguist Glibert Smugden called it “a disaster for convenient acronyms.” He added, “The loss of its coincidental nomenclature as having formerly been aligned with that of an Egyptian déesse is a blow for news reporters, governments and feminists everywhere.” British premier Cameron…
The Storm Clouds Gather
By Max Musson: Until just a few years ago, the government of Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, was widely regarded by Western governments as progressive and modernizing and it is therefore curious that a coalition of Western powers including Britain, are now plotting military intervention aimed at bringing down that regime. Assad came to power in July 2000, following the death of his father, Hafez Al-Assad, who had ruled the country over the previous thirty…