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China's contribution to Middle East drone and missile proliferation (Note: The New Arab is a Qatari-owned news outlet)
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One of Iran's Beverly Hills  It is a piece on Aljazeera about a rich enclosed mini-town occupied by Iranian "aristocracy", reflecting obscene wealth in a country with swamps of poverty. Brazil and other countries too come to mind.  However, for obvious reasons, you wouldn't find on Aljazeera an account of the atronomical amount of wealth squandered by the Qatari monarchy whether on weapons or as money invested in Western cities, including bailing out Western banks, instead of being invested in real development and industrial projects in Arab countries. We know what class interests the Qatari rentier ruling class represents and embodies.  "باستي هيلز" 
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"How women's lives were revolutionised in Tunisia" Notice the BBC's careful choice of words: "These Tunisians are not doing at all badly. This is one imagines they are as emancipated as any girl can get" "He [the first president] gave ... He banned ... He introduced ..." "He was the liberator of Tunisian women." Women as passive creatures, victims waiting for a saviour, have no agency of their own. Now, imagine that someone says that this or that British, French or German leader was the liberator of British, French or German women. It doesn't happen because that not how it happned. But in a country like Tunisia, Egypt or Syria, an "enlighteneed dictator" has to be there to liberate women. If one looks at the movies, posters, photographs of Iranian university students, upper middle class Egyptian women on the beaches, meetings and social gatherings of the women of the elite, etc., of the 1950s and 1960s (google
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"One might have thought that the methods applied in the days of European colonialism and the resulting patterns were a thing of the past. But that would be mistaken. These methods and patterns are now seeing a resurgence, awakening in new and grotesque spasms. We don't even dare hope that these will be the last." Late colonial convulsions See also: A rotten legacy
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The Nokdu Flower A drama about the Donghak Peasant Revolution that took place in late 19th century Korea. It is a drama, so for some historical background, I recommend you have an overview here . They are 24 parts, but it is worth watching it. Themes include: class struggle, war, betrayal, class, psychology, love, the Japanese occupation of Korea, communistic ideals, loyalty to ideas ...
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People as a number  The terrorist Mediterranean Sea killed up to 150 migrants in order to protect fortress Europe  
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