Some people are selective in terms of the truth or history. Like my selective memory which remembers the Asian and or Muslim members of the BBC London news team: *breathe* Ayeesha Baksh, Asad Ahmed and Riz Latif. More importantly, governments and liberal democracies of the western world struggle to remember what they set up: post-world war kingdoms in the middle-east and across the world.

Now, their proverbial puppets are being quashed one by one. Suddenly, apathetic, young populations are becoming empowered to challenge the concept of neo-colonialism and modern day imperialism

Democracy is a concept we all believe in, for Britain. However when it comes to North Africa or the Middle-East, any country which may serve our self-interest then democracy is more of a blurred concept. When I say ‘blurred,’ I mean democracy becomes supporting dictatorships, notably Ben Ali or Hosni Mubarak.

Tunisia and Egypt aren’t the only exceptions to this political puppet show. Jordan or the Hashemite Kingdom (I did some research and this is something to do with Hash Browns) is another autocracy. You’re probably thinking when did Jordanians have a Royal Family? Well since 1946 and it was set up by (you’ll never guess who) the British following World War Two.

If you’ve been through the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco you’ll notice massive paintings, murals or enlarged photographs of dictators or ‘Royal family.’ No it’s not because these countries want to re-create ‘art galleries’ in open space it’s because they’re narcissistic, corrupt leaders who crave power like a baby craving milk.

In essence, the British set a precedent for conflict in the middle-east like standing at the top of a hill with a snowball and pushing it down the hill until it gains enough mud, sticks, bird poo, stones and more snow to never stop rolling whilst getting bigger too. If you didn’t understand the analogy, the mud, stick and stones were the fake autocratic governments and the quagmire of tribal politics to go with it.

Revolution is normally associated with ‘those crazy, Marxist students’ by modern day politicians. Now, it’s being associated with the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen (please insert more nations as the days go by.) There is a domino effect going on and it’s not going to stop.

Interestingly, Hilary Clinton does not support these violent protests because she believes to achieve democracy you must patiently wait for over 30 years for your 1 term president to change his mind.

A report via the guardian aptly concluded that “While the streets were teeming with protests, [the T.V and radio] it offered its usual mix of cookery programmes and soap operas.” To quote hip hop artist and legendry poet Gil Scot Heron: “The revolution will not be televised.”

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