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Category Archives: Egypt
Batting for England
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 October 2018 WORDS OF WISDEN “It’s a funny kind of month October. For the really … Continue reading
Posted in Brexit, China, Egypt, Europe, Uncategorized
Tagged Brexit, cricket, English humour, Wisden
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Oklahoma!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 March 2018 NO, NO, OKLAHOMA! לֹא תִּרְצָח The last time Oklahoma hogged the global limelight – … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Torture, UK, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathrustra, Amnesty International, Beheading, Choctaw, Clayton Lockett, Council of Europe, Crucifixion, death penality, European Union, Exodus, Fred Zinnemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, gas chambers, Gordon MacRae, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus Christ, King James version, Mary Fallin, Moses, Mount Sinai, Nazis, nitrogen gas, okla humma, Oklahoma, Old Testament, Oliver Cromwell, Red Indians, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, Texas, Thou shalt not kill, Tulsa, Twin Towers, US Eighth Amendment, Virginia, World War II
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Caput anni
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 January 2015 The good news is that Antigone1984 is to resume blogging as from today. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Military, Poland, Politics, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Crimea, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, Kuwait, mass surveillance, Nato, Qatar, spy agencies, typewriters
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GAZA
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 August 2014 We have been asked to host the following article and linked petition … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Military, Palestine, Politics, UK, UN, USA, Wales
Tagged Balfour Declaration, Ban Ki-moon, Dave Bradney, Gaza blockade, Israeli Defence Force, Judea, Yvonne Ridley
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Scoop! Hold the front page!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 7 April 2014 SHOCK HORROR DOWN UNDER! ROYAL PARENTS “CARRY” BABY SON OFF PLANE! Millions of … Continue reading
US glad-hands Egyptian dictator
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 4 November 2013 It is no coincidence that US Secretary of State John Kerry rocked up … Continue reading
Superfast evolution in Cairo
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 October 2013 A confrontation between police and unarmed protesters. Police fire into the air. Fifty … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Police, Politics
Tagged Charles Darwin, evolution, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Tahrir Square
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A smoking gun
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 July 2013 Talk about a smoking gun! As we suggested on 5 July 2013 in … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Military, UN
Tagged coup d'état, F-16 fighter jets, Guns not butter, Mohamed Morsi, Potomac, Roman Empire
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Snake oil from faith healer
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 8 July 2013 Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, is famous … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged George W.Bush, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Saddam Hussein, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Tony Blair
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