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Egypt’s Sisi Aping Russia’s Putin to Continue Serving…for Life

Monday, March 26, 2018 at 7:56 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Egyptians go to the polls today for a presidential election that smacks of a coronation. After all, not only is voting compulsory, but President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is effectively the only candidate. Frankly, the only uncertainty is whether he’s shameless enough to rig more than the 96.1 percent of the vote he rigged in 2014.… Read more.

PLP Ousts Ruling FNM in The Bahamas

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 5:35 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Even though we did not have the benefit of the type of scientific polling that made Sunday’s election results in France anticlimactic, the triumph of Hon. Perry Christie (left) and his Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) over Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham and his Free National Movement (FNM) in parliamentary elections yesterday came as no surprise. Preliminary results… Read more.