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• in Politics
  Good Cop Bad Cop Not
  The social media is smarter than the Reds
  by Mozart99 / on Dec 11, 2011
• in Politics
  Few Public Leaders Understand the Power of Social Media
  Our European elected leaders non only show intellectual dishonesty when it comes to social media, they right out don't seem to be getting it...
  by saragoldberger / on Nov 26, 2011
• in Politics
  Egyptian Democracy Activists Want Army Ruling Council Out
  Army trying to meet demands of democracy activists
  by robertweller / on Nov 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “arab spring”

 

• Tunisian feminist arrested for alleged provocation

  
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  An outspoken Tunisian feminist who scandalized the country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested and may be charged for conducting "provocative acts" at a religious center where police prevented hardline Islamists from holding their annual conference, the Interior Ministry said Monday. ...
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• Apple’s first store set to open in Istanbul

  
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  Consumer technology market analysts expect Apple to start taking a big bite from the emerging market for its products here when it opens its first store in Istanbul in a few months. Related Entries May 16, 2013 Seaport battle looms as Israel plans new competition May 16, 2013 Erdogan says will go ahead with Gaza ...
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• How Qatar seized control of Syria’s revolt – and divided the opposition

  
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  “Qatar’s wealth, underpinned by the world’s third largest natural gas reserves, is a potent weapon in its quest for political influence in a Middle East undergoing transition,” analysts suggest : Nowhere is this influence more clear than in Libya and …
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• U.S. Congressman Introduces Legislation That Would Ensure Israel Maintains Its Qualitative Military Advantage (VIDEO)

  
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  IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (far left) with a reserve division. Photo: IDF. Representative Doug Collins (R-GA), Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, has introduced legislation to further the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security. Late last week, Collins ...
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• Democracy Means Equality

  
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  A fundamental plank of any peace plan has to be universal rights and full equality for all, and that is true whether the solution is one state, two states, twelve states or no states in Israel-Palestine. I elaborate at Souciant . Filed under: One-State Solution , West Bank Tagged: Abraham Foxman , ...
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• Al Nusra Front is no more

  
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  (Propaganda Poster of al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) Al Nusra Front was the backbone of the revolt against Bashar Assad. It was their fighters who had won the victories against the Syrian Army, Hizb’Allah and Iranian Basij. Unlike other al-Qaeda outfits, they made alliance with other groups and for ...
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• Who Gets to Pick the Winner in Syria?

  
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  As the civil war continues to murder innocents with the latest estimate approaching one-hundred-thousand murdered civilians and over one and a half million refugees fled to neighboring Turkey and Jordan there is a group of nations attempting to influence who wins. The problem is that many of these outsiders are ...
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• Romanticizing the American Revolution to Criticize the Arab Spring? Not so Fast

  
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  Live TV gives political pundits all kinds of opportunities to make silly observations about the world.  On Real Time with Bill Maher this past Friday night, conservative writer Charles C. W. Cooke made one of the strangest and silliest I’ve witnessed in quite a while.  When discussing the ongoing battles over ...
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• National Review Writer Tells Joy Reid That Mentioning Slavery Is ‘Cheap’ Point, Slavery A ‘Flaw’

  
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  Republicans love talking about slavery if they can somehow accuse President Obama of being worse than it , but when it comes to recognizing the historical significance of actual slavery… well, not so much . On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher , a great example of this was on display when MSNBC ...
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• Partys withdrawal threatens Moroccan govt

  
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  Moroccos second largest political party has announced it is withdrawing from the ruling coalition, and that could lead to the fall of the Islamist-led government brought in by the Arab Spring. Adil Benhamza, spokesman for the center-right Istiqlal (independence) party, said Sunday that its decision has ...
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• Greenwald vs. Maher on the ‘Unique’ Nastiness of Muslims

  
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  Friday night on Bill Maher’s “Real Time,” Guardian columnist and former civil rights litigator Glenn Greenwald attacked the view that Islam is a “uniquely” threatening force in the world and that Muslims should be deprived of the benefits of the classical liberal values that many groups in the West have ...
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• Drone Policy in Yemen

  
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  For anyone in the NYC region, I will be giving a talk at the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR on KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, and SOCIAL SYSTEMS on Wednesday, May 15, 7 pm (at Columbia University’s Faculty House). The title of the talk is: “Drone Strikes in the War on Terror: The Case of Post-Arab-Spring Yemen.” Unmanned ...
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• Was the Relationship between Brian Glyn Williams and Dzokhar Tsarnaev more than Just Student and “Tutor”?

  
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  In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, weve highlighted the unraveling of the "two lone nuts" theory of that tragic event. In this context, we note that younger brother Dzokhar Tsarnaevs high school mentor has a background in the CIA and also teaches Islamic studies at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, ...
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• One tweet does not a revolution make: Technological determinism, media and social change

  
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  This is my recently published piece on technological determinism and revolution – case study of the Arab Spring. Reprinted from Global Media Journal Abstract This paper discusses the problematic influence of technological determinism in popular news media coverage and analysis of the Arab Spring events of ...
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• Syria: intervene, push for elections, or stabilize and disarm?

  
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  “The use of chemical weapons in Syria has increased pressure on President Obama to arm the opposition,” says Zalmay Khalilzad (right), a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Iraq and Afghanistan. “Earlier in the conflict, I endorsed such a …
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• Bibliography of the Egyptian Uprisings

  
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  Art from Graffiti Harimi Mark Peterson has just updated his bibliography of the Egyptian Uprisings with over 325 references. For an interesting Guardian article on how several Egyptian artists have responded to the Arab Spring, click here .
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• Evil Which We Cannot Name

  
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  I’ve been thinking about this “Thing called Benghazi” as Chris Mathews put it. And I’ve come to a revelation. The cover up is the biggest part of the story. But the reason for the cover up should shake every American to their core. The facts of Benghazi are pretty clear. There was a cover up from top to ...
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• Simultaneous Visits and Hope for Peace in the Middle East

  
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  Starting May 5, Beijing welcomes two important leaders from the Middle East : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both are considered events of significance among China’s diplomatic activities this year, reflected mainly in the form and timing of the visits. The ...
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• Difference in Egypt and Tunisia Transitions Affected by Education More Than Religion?

  
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  A recent op-ed in Foreign Policy discusses the possibility of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt becoming more ‘Islamist’ as time goes on as they seemingly increase their power in government but notes a slight difference between Egypt’s transition and Tunisia’s: In Tunisia, the Islamist Ennahda movement ...
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• Middle East & Arab World in 2013

  
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  The fallacy of the phrase, ‘the Muslim world’ Western media reinforces stereotypes by reducing a complex set of causes to the rage into an amorphous mass. (Al Jazeera) The media should instead pay more attention to individual states, conflicts and leaders, since dictatorship and factionalism have been as ...
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