Home
RSS
The former bodyguard of Tunisian ex-dictator Ben Ali has written scandalously on Facebook that the overthrown president and his mafia don of a wife Leila Trabelsi were supporters of Israel, but much more than that the latter was an agent of the Mossad..
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
10
Star It 
(1)
If so, this would be quite the pattern between Egypt’s last pharaoh and Tunisia’s overthrown tyrant. Both men offered reforms as appeasement (naturally...
made popular Apr 13 2011
Watching the images of young Tunisians take to the streets and in great courage and new found freedom chant down their corrupt and authoritarian leader is an image I...
made popular Jan 17 2011
In an interview with the Saudi network al-Arabiya during her trip to the region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that the United States is not taking sides...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Massive demonstrations ignited due to public anger over aiding youth unemployment and rises in poverty but which have morphed into general opposition against a...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Tunisia’s dictator Ben Ali. A footnote: Ben Ali was a Tunisian diplomat in Poland during the Solidarity Uprising. May he be a first hand witness once more to a...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Amidst a media blackout imposed by the authoritarian Ben Ali regime, Tunisian protests continue for nearly a month now since the attempted suicide and subsequent death...
made popular Jan 13 2011
Agence France-Presse
The Tunisian government has sold the people the mantra of “shut up and make money.” Political dissent was silenced by the...
made popular Dec 27 2010
Wikileaks is unveiling what Tunisians have always known: they are being robbed in daylight by an uncouth band of mobster thugs.
The Tunisian president Ben Ali is a...
made popular Dec 13 2010
The corruption of Tunisia’s ruling elite.
I could by now gather all my reports on Tunisian corruption and publish them as a book. Here we go again....
made popular Dec 10 2010
Tunisians are often left befuddled as to why their moderately prosperous country does not host a single McDonald’s. There is a lousy knock-off known as McDoolie...
made popular Dec 10 2010
There isn’t a region of the world run by a more miserable and vile bunch than the cursed region for the Arabs. Of course let me distinguish between the Arab...
made popular Dec 10 2010
The interest in the unauthorized release of U.S. diplomatic cables by whistle-blower site Wikileaks has been largely monopolized by the information relating to Gulf...
made popular Dec 3 2010
The transition from soft dictatorship to Banana Republic. The nation decays once more.
The above description of Tunisia - a nation meta-morphing from a stable and...
made popular Sep 16 2010
It is fitting that the lousy Yasir Arafat, who let corrupt men surround him even in his sleep, would marry an even more despicable person.
‘Arafat at least had...
made popular Sep 4 2010
That Tunisian regime...
Although often neglected by Western governments in their annual human rights reports, Tunisia is one of the most repressive regimes in the Arab...
made popular Sep 3 2010
Tunisia using marketing to distract from the cruelty.
This is a hallmark of the repressive Tunisian regime of Ben Ali (in power since 1986): Using its admittedly...
made popular Aug 27 2010
An aging tyrant grows more tyrannical.
Documenting abuses in Tunisia is something I do quite frequently. Why? Because it is one of the worst offenders and, yet, due...
made popular Jul 31 2010
The Tunisia you don’t see in those glossy brochures.
The Ben Ali regime is growing more desperate in its repression. Regimes tend to clamp down more harshly...
made popular Jul 20 2010
Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
New Tunisian repression and European silence.
This is the extent of Tunisia’s repressive state: Its redundant and unnecessary repression, but still merciless....
made popular Jul 6 2010
The Tunisian ‘republic’’s founding president Habib Bourguiba was for a while ostracized in the Arab world for advocating Arab acceptance of Israel and...
made popular Jul 6 2010
Tunisia’s oppressive clique of Ben Ali-Trabelsi is quite conscious of the nation’s image in the Western world and it wants to promote a facade of a liberal...
made popular Jun 18 2010
This is the Tunisian government you will not see in the glossy brochures of the tourism office promoting the beaches et al: A state that refuses to tolerate any form,...
made popular Jun 18 2010
This is the Tunisia you will not see in the glossy brochures: a repressive state using its authoritative grip to suffocate any air of freedom.
One of the most...
made popular May 24 2010
Look at him. Isn’t he not inspiring?
One of the most remarkable, in a horrific sense, things about the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia is its zero tolerance...
made popular May 1 2010
Tunisia’s next president?
Such is the sad state of Arab politics that even republics now have hereditary rule. Decades ago, these then new republican governments...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Documenting Tunisia’s oppressive state is something rarely done in the West. The country is, first and foremost, not the worst offender in a world with too many a...
made popular Apr 20 2010
Tunisian journalists suffer under one of the worst regimes. The autocrat Ben Ali harshly represses even the most mild and inconsequential dissent. Even Twitter accounts...
made popular Apr 6 2010
The Tunisian president Ben Ali returned from the Arab League summit hosted this year in Libya with a jump in his step. A jovial Ben Ali told the Tunisian press upon...
made popular Mar 31 2010
One of the most remarkable, in a horrific sense, things about the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia is its zero tolerance policy on dissent. From a strategic position, it...
made popular Mar 27 2010
One of the most remarkable, in a horrific sense, things about the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia is its zero tolerance policy on dissent. From a strategic position, it...
made popular Mar 26 2010
Secretary of state Hillary Clinton recently sent a message to the Tunisian government and people:
On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I...
made popular Mar 22 2010
The international NGO Amnesty International has called on the Tunisian government to cease with his harassment of former political prisoners. The criticism is voiced in...
made popular Mar 17 2010
AfricaNews reports that the tiny nation of Tunisia is ranked as the most electrified country in Africa with an electricity access rate of 99% ahead of every other...
made popular Feb 3 2010
The Ben Ali regime never rests in its thuggish behavior. What is so outstanding is not that it stifles dissent or even represses trivial and inconsequential dissent,...
made popular Feb 1 2010
Yesterday I wrote a post on Tunisia, and today comes new news that the Ben Ali regimes remains as thuggish as ever. Scratch that. The Ben Ali clique has not always been...
made popular Jan 28 2010
Tunisian lawyer and Tunisian League Human Rights President Mokhtar Trifi (L) shows a censured book entitled “Et Maintenant Tu vas m’ entendre” by...
made popular Jan 27 2010
While Googling Tunisian tyrant Ben Ali, I came across a following story about another Ben Ali. The story was an obituary, and I am sad to say that the wrong and noble...
made popular Jan 8 2010
Although never the scourge of Western criticism for human rights abuses (on the contrary, the French president Sarkozy has praised the Tunisian government and dismissed...
made popular Jan 8 2010
Layla Trabeli: The Queen of Theft
The Tunisian government since the rule of Ben Ali in 1986 has embarked on a massive privatization scheme. A majority of previously...
made popular Jan 5 2010
© Copyright 2009 Instablogs. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Powered by InstaPress