Kali Drives Change in India

Indians have taken to the streets to protest against violence against women. India , the world's biggest democracy, is a great big bhel ...

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Be The Change

Mahatma Gandhi was born today, October 2 1869. He exemplified the best of Libra the peacemaker, with Sun and Ascendant in the sign of the sc...

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Pussy Riot trial divides Russia and enrages the music world.

In the UK we understand the power of protest and the the right for free speech, especially in artistic forms. Tell me another country in t...

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Syria – Three of Assad’s inner circle killed in bomb blast.

Reports out of Damascus today say that 3 of the top members of President Assad’s inner circle were killed by a suicide bomber. President B...

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Egypt: Eating Shit or Revolution?

There's been a creative explosion of graffiti in Cairo post-January 25 "Given a choice between eating shit or eating shit, most Egy...

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Massacres in Syria

Bosnia: concentration camps in the 1990s What's happening in Syria is very, very nasty. It's reminding me too much of Bosnia in the ...

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Ceres, Food and Revolutions

Shopping for bread in the middle of a riot can be hectic. Tunisia. Have you looked closely at your grocery bill recently ? It's gone ...

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Syria: The Arab Spring Boils Over Into Summer

This morning tanks rolled into a small village in northern Syria and started shooting at villagers randomly. How can a government turn its g...

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Arab Spring

I wrote a post at the start of this month about the Year of Revolutions, 1848, and its paralells with now. To read it and reflect on the eve...

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Egypt's Revolution: Killing the Father?

Egyyptian women demonstrating in the 1919 uprising against the British. Photo: Wikimedia Commons As you already know if you are a regular re...

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2011: Springtime of the Peoples

Set during the Paris uprising of 1848, Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education explores lessons in love and friendship. It was published ...

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Egypt: Your Enemy is in the Mirror

Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, assassinated in 1981. Astrology tells us that the assassination of President Anwar Sadat back in 1981 link...

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Tunisia's National Chart

This is the chart I used for my analysis of the Tunisian Uprising in the previous post . It's dated for the founding of the Tunisian Rep...

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Tunisia: Revolution Now or Never

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!-- " William Wordsworth wrote these words about the Fre...

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