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Video: Egyptians still waiting for democracy
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Posted in Egypt
Tagged Egyptian Revolution
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Video: Yemeni women ‘will not remain silent
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Egypt: Gene Sharp Taught Us How To Revolt!
Global Voices: Last February, Sheryl Stolberg of The New York Times wrote an article about the political science professor, Gene Sharp, whose ideas were credited by her as being an inspiration for the Egyptian revolution, as well as many other … Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Israel ruled out military option on Iran years ago
What a bombshell! This should deflate Israeli threats to bomb Iran – Ha’aretz: Senior defense officials ruled out an Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear sites as early as five and a half years ago, telegrams sent from the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Iran's Nuclear Program
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Jon Stewart (and Bill O’Reilly??) on the Birthers
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FBI files on Tupac Shakur murder show he received death threats from Jewish gang
Haaretz: Files released Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur state that the star had received death threats from the Jewish Defense League, an organization that has been characterized as terrorist group. … Continue reading
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Bahraini woman willing to die if family is not released
The Guardian: A Bahraini woman who witnessed her father, a well-known human rights activist, being seized by masked soldiers, beaten unconscious and then taken into custody, has told the Guardian that she is willing to die on hunger strike unless … Continue reading
Bahraini hunger striker’s letter to President Obama
Read in full here. Excerpt: I write to you from Bahrain, after living through horrible injustice that I would never wish upon anyone in the world. Security forces attacked my home, broke our doors with sledgehammers, and terrified my family. … Continue reading
Posted in Bahrain
Tagged Bahraini Revolt
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Video: Battle of Misurata
The siege on the western revolutionary hold-out continues, see the video here.
Bahraini Activists Dying in Custody
This regime will one day answer for all of this. Al-Jazeera: A Bahraini businessman who was a member of the country’s leading Shia Muslim opposition group, Wefaq, has died in police custody, sources say. There was no immediate reaction by state … Continue reading
Iranian exiles ‘must leave Iraq’ by years end
BBC: Iraq’s government has said members of an Iranian exile group must leave the country by the end of the year, after deadly clashes with security forces. The People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) would be forced out of its … Continue reading
The Emergence of a Guerrilla War in the West of Libya
AlMasry AlYoum: Overwhelmed by the superior firepower of Muammar Qadhafi’s troops, opposition fighters in western Libya are resorting increasingly to guerrilla tactics in their campaign to topple the veteran leader. Unlike eastern Libya, where rebels hold many coastal cities, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Libyan Revolt
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Video: “How the Middle East is Changing”
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Thousands march in Yemen over protesters’ deaths
I have so much respect for these people. They have braved bullets, massacres, and a president who’s as stubborn as a mule, yet they’re still coming out in droves. The Guardian: In Yemen, tens of thousands of people marched in … Continue reading
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Tagged Yemeni Revolt
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Video: Fearless Revolutionaries in Syria
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