Tag: democracy
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It Won’t Work
The Republican and Democratic debates in America are really heating up. Candidates running for elections to become the next President of the United States of America are fighting within their own parties, as well as with candidates of the other party. While we are hearing almost everything about the candidates, the process of elections, the…
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Greece Today, Bahrain Tomorrow?
Ramadhan is over, and now I’m back. We are always busy, that’s life, but busy and hungry is not good to transfer my thoughts into words for you all to read, so I took a break. However, this doesn’t mean that I wasn’t itching to tell you about how Bahrain, or the world for that…
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3 Years After The Arab Spring
It has been almost three years since the Arab Spring zoomed across the Arab world, into each and every country in the region and in the periphery as well. As I suspected from day one, the so-called ‘spring’ had no good promises. While it was supported by almost everyone outside the region, the intellectuals…
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His Name Was Willy
His name was Willy, and sat next to me at seat 1C en route to Frankfurt via Bahrain’s Gulf Air. Five years ago, while his son was at his girlfriend’s house in Las Vegas, her ex-boyfriend jealously burst into her house with a baseball bat and struck him 20 times on the head. He was…
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Is America a Confused Democratic Nation?
Have you ever been approached by a friend asking you which of a number of different selections should he choose? Have you ever responded with, “Listen to your feelings”? Well, in the real world, this could be the most disastrous advice you can ever give. It could be, let me explain. When I first went…
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Egypt is a Case Study
Even though I’m not Tweeting as I used to earlier, but I’m reading more Tweets than ever. I consider social media not as my source of news, but more as a gauging tool of what the general public is thinking of, and what’s happening inside their minds. Since the downfall of Mubarak till this day,…
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Passing Bahrain Government Budget
The way I see it, it is much more than simply passing the government budget. We have seen for the past few days how the elected officials reacted to the proposed budget by the government. With a majority vote, it was turned down because it did not include the requested salary increase budget for the…
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Le catastrophe! A hated leader. Violent protests. Wealth creators Fleeing abroad. After a year of socialism, France’s meltdown is a stark warning to anyone who wants Red Ed as PM
Published by Daily Mail Here By DANIEL HANNAN Never in modern times has a French government been so unpopular. Even in May 1968, when strikes and student protests paralysed the country and forced President de Gaulle to flee to a military base in Germany, the regime enjoyed higher approval ratings than does beleaguered President Francois Hollande…
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The Flaws of Democracy
It’s not that I don’t believe in Democracy, but the way we work it these days is a big flaw. The direction we are moving towards promises nothing but catastrophe, and we need to adjust our headings. For a long time I’ve been arguing much about emotional decision making, and now, it is more…
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How to Defeat Evil
Defeating evil is a nice dish to have. First of all, what you need is patience, a nice ear, a lot of oxygen, a creative mind, a reading eye, and a serious looking face. Keep the dish away from grins, puffs, irritation, and a short sighted mind. The personal ability to get out of arguments…
Dr. Saqer AlKhalifa 