Friday, 10 August 2012 06:35 'The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) comprises of 6 nations, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. In principle, Kuwait and Bahrain are considered "constitutional monarchs," in practice, all 6 are despotic autocracies with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman overtly "absolute monarchs." Devoid of even a feigned semblance of representative governance, these regimes brutally repress not only their own subjects, but play active roles in repressing the people of other nations, both on their borders and well beyond them.' Read more: The Gulf State Despots: Ten Facts About Saudi Arabia Friday, 10 August 2012 06:27 'The defining characteristics of this cruel new world appear to be a preoccupation with selfishness and materialism, and, as part of a decline in empathy and the dissolving of the kind of political solidarity that was central to those opposing Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, for example, a narrow and horribly misplaced focus for dissent — not on the bigger political picture, and on the corporate and banking elites getting way with financial murder, but on people’s neighbours, or those regarded as different, or inferior, or feral, or workshy scroungers. Relentlessly, as part of an ideologically motivated programme of cuts aimed at ending the state provision of the services entail for a well-functioning civil society, the butchers of the Tory-led government have been attacking schoolchildren, students, the working poor, the unemployed, the old, the ill and the disabled.' Friday, 10 August 2012 06:19 'France has sent troops to the Syrian border with Jordan amid reports of escalating foreign support for the insurgents fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. France said its soldiers have been deployed to 'help refugees' in the border area.' Read more: France Deploys Troops to Syria-Jordan Border Friday, 10 August 2012 06:16 'A Turkish opposition lawmaker has accused the government of using ambulances to smuggle arms and ammunitions into Syria to be used by the country’s insurgents in their war against the government. Mevlut Dudu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said he has made the observation during a recent visit to an area near the border with Syria. During the visit, villagers informed him how Turkish ambulances are used to carry weapons to insurgents fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and carry out injured armed men on their way back.' Read more: Turkey Uses Ambulances to Smuggle Weapons into Syria: MP 
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