In 2011, the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, reportedly accused then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of supplying his troops with Viagra to supposedly encourage mass rape during a conflict that broke out following a NATO-backed coup attempt which ended with the brutal murder of Gaddafi. US ...
I would argue, without idealising, that the now apparently defunct Syria, rather than being merely a nation whose death it is proper to mourn, as Pepe rightly does, conceptually was much more than the sum of its constituent parts. Syria was an imperfect yet incontestably successful pattern o...
and more efficient. Yet in the case of airports it causes low-grade misery so pernicious that, even if not manifested via the medium of multiple homicides in the Duty Free, still makes the world a less pleasant place by a factor of millions of people a year. ...
Two balaclava-hooded executioners tighten a heavy noose around the neck of the manacled Butcher of Baghdad. BUTCHER IN A BODYBAGH; Brutal death of a despot.. Saddam Hussein 1937 - 2006 Hangmen take just one second to send him to hell Yesterday, Iraqi television pictures showed the man lab...
alter,change,modify- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" 3.brutalize- become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling ...
She ditched her career for Assad after a trip together to Libya as a guest of then leader Muammar Gaddafi. Image:Bashar al Assad and his wife Asma in 2010. Pic: AP In 1994, Assad's older brother - and heir to the presidency - Bassel was killed in a car crash in Damascus. ...
Two Men of the Desert Blanche Sweet 6 votes Two Men of the Desert was a 1913 American silent Western short film written and directed by D. W. Griffith. Based on a story by Jack London, the film was shot on location in Death Valley. Two Men of the Desert is now presumed lost. Relea...
It only remains for those of us who are interested in the future of Russia and its relations with the rest of the world to mourn the death of a brave man, to hope that his passing brings closer a time when Russia will be able to deal with its competitors with less of a snarl and ...
On October 13, 2013, a cabal of African “leaders” will assemble in an echo chamber called the African Union (AU) and gleefully pronounce the death of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa by mass withdrawal of African states from the Rome Statute. Presiding over the funeral serv...
Defying militant death threats, Shell flew in underwater engineers who took seven months to get the pipeline operational -- two days later, the militants bombed it again. Shell Nigeria lost $3 billion during the seven months of repairs, Africa Confidential newsletter estimated at the time.' ...