Author: saqeralkhalifa
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I Love You… Oil!
Can you imagine paying tax for the air you breath! Believe it or not, this does exist! More than that, in many countries, people pay more than 50% of their income to the government. I was told, in Britain’s case, birth certificates state that the child is property of the Queen, and that people…
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You’re All Losers if You Fail to Win
When I was 18 years old, I found myself in the biggest, hardest, and toughest challenge I have ever been through in my life. I was thrown in an instant in a culture, a place, a country that is amazingly so different from the place I have lived in forever. Bahrain, a small island, and…
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Should We Ban the Internet in Bahrain?
Is the internet a good or a bad thing? That is the question we should ask ourselves before making a decision on whether to limit the use of the internet in Bahrain, and any other state in the world. Simply, if the internet is good, then keep it, and if it is bad, then ban…
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Who Is Better For Bahrain, Obama, or Romney?
We are approaching a presidential election in America, and one of two may end up becoming the strongest person in the world for the next four years. USA’s current president Barack Obama is at the moment facing a strong challenge from the Republican party nominee for president, Mitt Romney. There are many themes of…
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It’s Not Just About Us by .@tomfriedman
Original Article Here Mitt Romney gave a foreign policy speech on Monday that could be boiled down to one argument: everything wrong with the Middle East today can be traced to a lack of leadership by President Obama. If this speech is any indication of the quality of Romney’s thinking on foreign policy, then we…
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The Difference Between a Terrorist and a Freedom Fighter
Most of my readings and studies were through a Western perspective, due to the fact that I have spent around 10 years living and studying in America. Whenever literature confronts a topic on an internal, it either paints those struggling against the rule as ‘Terrorists’ or ‘Freedom Fighters’. Obviously, each term can be described…
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Bahrain Universal Periodic Review Accepted by Human Rights Council
Information Affairs Authority, September 19th, 2012: Following Bahrain successfully accepting 145 of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations, and partially accepting 13, the Human Rights Council accepted Bahrain’s response in the session held in Geneva this morning. HE Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, delivered the opening statement, highlighting…
Dr. Saqer AlKhalifa 