New documents expose years of murderous interventions in Libya by British governments.
Thousands of workers in Egypt are preparing for some of the biggest strikes since the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak—whose trial for ordering the mass killing of protesters resumed this week.
While Sir Mark Allen ran MI6’s Middle East desk, he fixed a BP-Libya oil deal. He went to work as a special adviser to BP after he left the Foreign Office in 2004.
Huge protests defied a new wave of repression in Syria this week, as the regime sought revenge for military defections.
Millions of workers in Italy took part in a general strike today (Tuesday) against the government’s austerity plans.
The young have taken the streets of Chile, and transformed them into theatres, circuses and platforms for a huge protest movement.
"I was a scholar, living in Britain on a scholarship from the Syrian government.
Mass army defections have rattled the already shaken regime of president Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
Workers in Egypt were on strike throughout the Ramadan festival—and many look set to continue.
The West says it has learned lessons from Iraq, where chaos followed the removal of all state authority. So in Libya it plans continuity—by keeping Gaddafi loyalists in place.
"The intervention of the Western powers is a real threat to the Arab revolutions. It allows the dictators to pose as defenders of national independence.
Over one million students, parents, lecturers, workers and young people took part in mass demonstrations in cities throughout Chile on Monday.
