by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 13, 2011
Five months after protests broke out, has the military met demands for political reform and social justice? When Egypt’s youth-led “January 25th Revolution” forced long-serving President Hosni Mubarak to resign on February 11, Mubarak handed the...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 15, 2011
Greece is facing an economic and social disaster, the result of its so-called rescue by the “troika” of the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. Greece must change course to avoid a grim future for its people: it must default...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 24, 2011
It is not lost on Kenyans that once upon a time when we were working on the final draft of the constitution ahead of the referendum, some clever fellow who we never got to know inserted the words ‘subject to national security’ which would have altered the spirit and...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 24, 2011
Neither Western leaders trying to wring moral mileage out of Gaddafi’s death, nor UN officials denouncing it as illegal, deserve our backing. It is hard to know who comes out worse from the grisly aftermath of Colonel Gaddafi’s death. Is it Western leaders...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 24, 2011
If the prisoner exchange deal announced on 11 October 2011 between Hamas and the Israeli government is fully implemented without major hitches, there is little question who ‘won’ this fiveyear war of wills: the deal will constitute a major victory for Hamas and the...