Posts In Category Arab World
Capital punishment in China & Iran
on August 31, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, China, Europe, Justice, Politics, Comments (0)
The death penalty is back in the headlines. China is set to change ‘its ways’ by excluding the death penalty as a possible punishment for those who try to smuggle […]
Afghan leaks
on July 28, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Politics, U.S.A., Comments (0)
Wikileaks presented us with a great number of things we shouldn’t know about the Afghan war, and not for the first time. Of course, what we shouldn’t know is strictly […]
Gates: mind your own business
on June 9, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Europe, Politics, U.S.A., Comments (3)
Thanks to EuropeanPlanet I came across an article by ‘the Middle East’ online. In it Robert Gates is quoted to have said that the ‘European Union is an important reason […]
Facing a nuclear Iran
on April 13, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Europe, Politics, U.S.A., Comments (0)
Finally, China seems to have taken ‘safety first’ to heart by agreeing to walk the road towards imposing sanctions on Iran. For a long time both Peking and Moscow have […]
Not quite gone yet
on March 25, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Politics, Comments (1)
Dutch troops will stay in Uruzgan until at least early 2011, according to interim-minister of defense Eimert van Middelkoop (christian union). Quite a different prospect than the current deal that […]
Elections in Iraq
on March 14, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Politics, Comments (0)
Another crucial phase for Iraq’s future has passed. How does one sum up the March 7th parliamentary elections? Not with a one-liner. Starting with voter turn-out estimates, said to lay […]
The Dutch likely to leave Uruzgan
on February 19, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Europe, Comments (0)
Last week the United Nations officially made a request to the Dutch government to lengthen their stay in Afghan province Uruzgan. However much the Christian Democrats (CDA) would like to […]
Lead: Get Iran into line
on February 5, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, China, Europe, Justice, Politics, Comments (1)
Iran is a trouble(d) country, a place where women are oppressed and do not enjoy the equality as many grew so accustomed to. Its reign is one of terror, its […]
Yemen
on January 28, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Comments (0)
It’ll be easy to help out Yemen in fighting their fertile soil for terrorism: Give 50 billion dollars over the next ten years, and forget just about half of the […]
Iraq: Create a signal, not a problem
on January 22, 2010 by Reckless Rose in Arab World, Justice, Politics, Comments (0)
The next Iraqi elections are crucial. There are the more obvious things no one wants to see, such as fraud, violence and deaths, but there are also aspects of the […]