It’s all down to interpretation. They say; one man’s freedom fighter is another’s terrorist. A logical conclusion that can be drawn from all this is that most of the dictators of today were heroes to some people yesterday. It’s sad that over long periods of time; power, greed and dissent corrupts the best intentions of leaders, just as it did the pigs of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
From this, one can predict that today’s heroes could potentially become tomorrow’s dictators. The developing world (where poverty is rife and most of the time democracy is in its infancy) is most vulnerable to this culture of personalities, which lends itself so well to the creation of political heroes and dictators. Enough of the theoretical – in terms of dictators that used to be heroes, the prime example that comes to my mind is Zimbabwe’s own – Robert Mugabe

Me, personally don’t like certain vegetables; for instance broccoli, eggplant and spinach. I don’t care how good they are for you; the thought of some deep fried mountain rat is actually more appealing to me especially considering that it looks like chicken. And yes, it is really rat meat in the picture….
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If one thinks about the last few months, it is difficult not to consider the fact the possibility that one of the principle claims that Karl Marx made about capitalism has again proved to contain more than an element of truth. People are losing their jobs and savings. Whilst a student, one had to be careful in citing Marx (and especially some of the his followers) for fear of being ridiculed as some sort of out-dated hippy with no idea about the real world of economics

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