Finally, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen has agreed to step down in exchange for immunity so he and his entourage will not be prosecuted. President Saleh has certainly learned lessons from the latest world agitations. He has learned that Western governments do not protect their allies in bad times. Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is being prosecuted in his country. Moammar Ghaddafi, who [...]

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The unrest in the Arab world is making China paranoid. Lately, China is cracking down on its dissidents including the recent arrest of Ai Weiwei, a famous and respected artist known for his criticism of the Chinese government.   As usual, the US government was one of the first to criticize China. The Chinese government [...]

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Rumors are that President Obama has secretly authorized the CIA to arms rebels in Libya. Do the successive US administrations suffer of collective Alzheimer disease? Certainly President Obama is a copy cat of his predecessors when it comes to their foreign policy. It seems like the US administration never learns from mistakes of the past. I [...]

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France’s role in the Libya conflict has returned a lost prestige that France has wanted for a long time. President Sarkozy is seeing himself as equal to Napoleon or Charles de Gaulle. Meanwhile, in the United States, many among the Republican party are worried about the US keeping a low profile in the mission in Lybia, and therefore [...]

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A portion of Lybia is in the hands of the rebels, who are feeling victorious, but the future will tell us if Libya is going to enter chaos or not. Like many African countries, Libya is a multi-tribal country. We have seen tribalism in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein: the revenge of Shiites, marginalised under [...]

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The failure of the Arab League, an organization created by Arab countries to solve their problems, is also at the root of the turmoil that the Arab world is going through right now. An illustration of their failure is that they were “united” in asking the West to intervene in Libya but never themselves sent [...]

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Dear President Obama, What happened to the promise of changing the world to be a better place? During the U.S. presidential election you promised to restore the American image, tarnished by the Bush administration. President Bush was the subject of criticism over his  ”cowboy” style of trying to spread democracy in the Arab world. President Obama, [...]

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The West’s addiction to foreign oil is certainly what motivates a coalition of  Westerners lead by the French to engage in what would become an inevitable  confrontation with Moammar Gaddafi. The U.N. resolution confirmed once again the international conspiracy against the weak. At least during the time of cold war, the world was more peaceful because the super powers neutralized each other. I [...]

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France has recognized the rebel group in Libya. This move shows the eyes of French  imperialism in Africa. France is known for its addiction to oil and its involvement with dictators in oil-rich African countries such as Gabon, Republic of Congo, and Angola. And behind the French government is hidden the French oil mafia that often supports [...]

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A planned congressional hearing scheduled by Rep. Peter King on Muslims’ role in homegrown terrorism is under a lot of criticism. A rally to show discontentment about this wise move does not make any sense. Americans are known for learning geography only in time of war, or to find out the origin of those arrested for [...]

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