Putin is a dangerously weak autocrat unable to control the forces he's unleashed. I'm not sure the same can be said about Netanyahu. But both are toying with radical-right elements in the belief they can ride this particular tiger, and they can't. http://paper-bird.net/2014/07/20/government-by-moral-panic/
Putin is a dangerously weak autocrat unable to control the forces he's unleashed. I'm not sure the same can be said about Netanyahu. But both are toying with radical-right elements in the belief they can ride this particular tiger, and they can't.
http://paper-bird.net/2014/07/20/government-by-moral-panic/
As Scott Long has documented, one group suffering the consequences of the Sisi-era repression is LGBT Egyptians. 77 or more have been arrested since last year. Blair, the "pro-gay" prime minister of the UK, is complicit in their oppression now.
http://paper-bird.net/2014/05/18/brutal-gender-crackdown-in-egypt-the-tomorrows-that-never-came/