Dictators of the World

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raised eyebrows around the world recently when he proclaimed himself to be an "expert" on the ...

Robert Mugabe came perilously close to a moment of critical self-realization when he acknowledged that an economic meltdown, massive emigra...

Niccolo Machiavelli coined one for the ages when he opined it is best to be both feared and loved, however, if one cannot be both it is bet...

So the world's most beleaguered dictator finally gets one in the win column. Amid opposition boycotts, parliamentary walkouts, and a ser...

The normally taciturn and reclusive Isaias Afewerki appears to have transformed himself into something of an extrovert lately. I've alr...

Stop me if you've heard this before, but Robert Mugabe's career in politics looks like it may be coming to an abrupt end. If Zimbab...

The entire world is paying attention, or at least pretending to pay attention, to the crackdown on dissident monks in Burma . Missing in mo...

Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier wants his former subjects to know how very sorry he is. In a frankly biz...

To date, I have said practically nothing about Iran's diminutive holocaust denying president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Surprisingly, nobody...

Yesterday, I took a look at Kim Jong-Il's insane plan to use kidnapping to improve North Korea's dismal propaganda movie industry. ...

It should come as no surprise that even dictators have hobbies, so it should come as no surprise that being a dictator allows one to pursue ...

People always say that if you live long enough, you'll see everything at least once. Today is one of those days, for today, I have come ...

The military dictator of Sudan , Omar al-Bashir , has declared that he's ready to declare a cease fire with rebels in Darfur at the st...

Thank heavens for the internet. First Stefan Landsberger took the time and care to create his archive of Chinese communist propaganda poster...

After last weeks post featuring a video clip of Al Jazeera's interview with Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki , I would be remiss if I ...

OK, so this story is a few days old, but Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev was on a state visit to Turkmenistan last week. I scoured t...

When Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chávez described Cuban strongman Fidel Castro as his "mentor", he really wasn't kidding. Lik...

The military strongman of Fiji , Commodore Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama , is alleging that the chief of the Australian Defense Force...

A new documentary called The Dictator Hunters is making its debut this week at the Toronto Film Festival. According to this article in th...

Riz Khan of Al Jazeera interviews Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki about accusations of sponsoring terror by the United States, and the l...