The unrest in the Middle East is growing. The lid of the repression was opened in Tunisia and now, when the people are beginning to taste what means to be able to get rid of dictators and tyrants, it won’t close. In the West, countries are worried as it is almost impossible to know how things are going to end. At the moment most of the attention is centered upon Libya due to the incredible violence that is taking place there with the Gaddafi’s government, or what is left of it, killing its own people in a futile attempt to keep the power. Read the rest of this entry »

While the world is watching the Middle East protests with concern, Europe is likely to receive the brunt of it with the influx of refugees fleeing their countries some for fear of their lives and some looking for a need to get food and jobs. Apart from Italy which is already tending the arrival of large numbers of Tunisians and Egyptians to the Lampedusa Island, other European countries had not yet had any noticeable increase of Middle East people. Read the rest of this entry »

According to AP “Egypt’s military announced on national television that it has stepped in to “safeguard the country” on Thursday and assured protesters that President Hosni Mubarak will meet their demands in the strongest indication yet that Egypt’s longtime leader has lost power.” Read the rest of this entry »

After more than two weeks of protests, Egypt is still facing great uncertainty. With a dictator as Mubarak who has the police and most of the army on his side, the protesters face great hurdles and yet even after more than 290 deaths and facing strong and harsh repression, they keep on with their demands, the main one being the ousting of Mubarak. Read the rest of this entry »

This Friday marks the eleventh day of the anti-Mubarak protests in Egypt and so far the president is still in power ignoring the demands for his leaving the presidency. Never mind the more or less forceful demands and advice of international leaders but more specially escalating a repression against many of his own people. Thirty years in power had given him ample time to get the police and the army on his side and there is little doubt that he is willing to use them and remain in his post as he has said until the next elections in September. Read the rest of this entry »

This is probably the difference between a democracy, however imperfect at times, and a dictatorship. In France, a democracy, there is a trial for corruption scheduled for next month. The defendant none other that the 78 Tunisiayear old former French president Jacques Chirac accused of embezzling Paris taxpayers’ money to fund his political career in the early 1990s. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Wednesday, what could have been expected after Tuesday night’s speech by Mr Mubarak has begin to happen. The until now non violent demonstrations by the protesters calling for the Egyptian president immediate departure, turned not just to chaos but to dangerous confrontations when a large group of supporters of Mubarak arrived into Cairo’s Tahrir Square and began clashing with the demonstrators. Read the rest of this entry »