Anti-alcohol protests and other riots continue to persist in parts of Algeria including the Algerian capital of Algiers. Over the past year, bars and stores that sold alcoholic beverages have been the targets of frustrated people guided by radical Muslims who seem to be using alcohol as a scapegoat as one of the country’s foremost problems next to the problems over...

Spokesmen from the government of Saudi Arabia assured the nation that the recent unrest in the oil-rich eastern province of Qatif has been put down and stability restored. The government also stated that a “foreign country” was behind the unrest, many interpreting this “foreign country” as Iran since the majority of the Shi’ite population...

When a new system takes power it needs to build those things that were not there. It is not the new system that lacks functioning or legal means, or regulations, it is the old system they inherited that has deficits in the legislative, democratic, executive and public participation tools. The fundamental base of democracy is the separation of power and the involvement...

In 2011, the total population of the world will reach 7 billion (7000 million) people. Of these 7 billion people approximately 50 % or more will be under 30 years of age. How is this affecting the world order and society? Every certain period of years a generation leap takes places in society. It is a natural way of life, “the old people get older, and the young get...

Why is the Tunisian revolution, the source of inspiration for the Arab World Revolution and a symbol for the entire world, called the Jasmine Revolution? The Jasmine Revolution is the term used to refer to the demonstrations in Tunisia. The cause of the demonstrations is still being analyzed. Some media report they were triggered by decades of oppression, unemployment,...

“Democracy, democracy!” they shout en mass as they gather in their thousands on Arab streets, people from all walks of life walking and yelling , “we want Democracy,” the cry can be heard from Egypt to Libya to Yemen to Tunisia to Algeria and Bahrain and in other parts of the Arab World and resonating throughout the whole world. A monumental shift...

The media-coined term ‘Jasmine Revolution’ for the people-powered Tunisian revolution that overthrew the Tunisian government through widespread protests and rallies (not without violence) has now spread to the oldest-independent Arab country of Oman after the fragrance of it drove the Egyptians to drive out their President Hosni Mubarak out of power, encouraged...

On February 8, our Vice President Joe Biden called Egypt’s new VP Omar Suleiman, saying Egypt should cancel the Emergency Law their government has used to suppress, imprison, torture and kill those who oppose the government’s tyranny.  Another provision of the Emergency Law gives the President the right to bypass the courts, and have people tried by a military tribunal...

Since 2011 began, natural disasters have been hitting different parts of the globe. China, Australia, continuous floods and Brazil mudslides. Every flood came with loss of life rising to the hundreds, even in developed countries. The damages were accounted for billions. In Brazil, the mud flood took over 600 lives. The floods came soon after Brazil had elected its new...

Officials from Niger, France, Mauritania, and Algeria declared that their respective nations will combat the al-Qaeda’s presence across the Sahel region. This announcement follows the five day-old abduction and murder of a French worker at the hands of the al-Qaeda along with suicide bombings that were recently carried out in Uganda. The French government was outraged...