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Opposition in Egypt Gears Up for Major Friday Protest
The Guardian: Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, will face escalating challenges on all fronts tomorrow, with Cairo expecting the biggest day yet of street protests and Mohamed ElBaradei, one of his fiercest critics, calling explicitly for a “new regime” on his … Continue reading
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Protests Grow in Yemen
See the video from Thursday’s rallies in Sana’a.
Defiance in Egypt
This is what defiance looks like…
US State Department Spokesman Grilled
See the video here. The al-Jazeera correspondent ask very poignant questions. I just picture PJ Crowley swearing left and right as soon as the interview ends.
The Tunisian Effect: Cairo in ‘Day of Revolt’ and elsewhere
Cairo on January 25: See the video here. Jordan on January 24: See the video here. Yemen on January 23: Read about it here. Algiers on January 22: See the video here.
Mohamed Bouazizi’s suicide sparked the Tunisia Revolution
Remember his name. See the video (not of the suicide but of the story of his suicide).
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The Tunisian Revolution: An Exemplar for Action
[Picture is from Tunisia, but you gotta love the Palestinian flag hanging from the balcony.] Algeria: A man has died after setting himself on fire at a government building in Algeria, state media has reported, echoing the self-immolation that triggered the … Continue reading
Tunisia’s Nervous Neighbours
The Tunisian Revolution is the spark that may change the political landscape of the region, but because of that very possibility, Arab regimes, fearing the domino effect that their citizens will follow the example of their Tunisian brethren and topple … Continue reading
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Ben Ali’s 1979 Playbook
ForeignPolicy.com: It’s hard to envy the position Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was in these last few weeks: There just aren’t many good answers available to despots who are faced with popular uprisings. Still, he should have known better than to … Continue reading
The New Dawn in Tunisia
Started with one man, Muhammad Bouazizi. See the video here. Let the remaining Arab dictators tremble in their palaces.
Tunisia and the American Double-standard
More Tunisians have died in just a few weeks of protesting their dictatorship than Iranians in the entire post-election turmoil, in ’09 yet, American media and the Republican Party were falling over themselves to cover the crisis and condemn human … Continue reading
Stephen Kinzer: “Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi Suicide: Tragic End to Iran’s Dynasty”
The Daily Beast: Down the street from my apartment in Boston’s South End, a single gunshot shattered the pre-dawn darkness Tuesday. Police arrived to find a suicide. This doesn’t happen any more often in the South End than anywhere else, … Continue reading
Wikileaks Exposes Iran’s Secret Revenge on Iraqi Pilots For 1980s War
ABC News: A brief paragraph in the mountain of Wikileaks documents shed a sliver of light on what officials claim is a viscious and coldly efficient Iranian campaign of revenge on Iraqi air force pilots who bombed Iran during the … Continue reading
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Palestinian Statehood, the UN, and Israel as a “Jewish State”
Following Brazil’s recent declaration, Argentina has now recognized a Palestinian state in the pre-67 borders. Like the Brazilian announcement, however, this may not have an immediate effect on the ground but it is significant nonetheless. As of now, the following … Continue reading
Cyberwar erupts over WikiLeaks (video)
See the al-Jazeera video here.