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• in Politics
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  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”

 

• 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’

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 794
  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

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 600
  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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• Photo of the day – the quiet anguish of the Arab Spring

  
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  The World Press Photo jury selected this New York Times photo taken in Yemen last fall as the photo of the year in 2012 for its encapsulation of the anguish that accompanied the Arab Spring uprisings. “A thin man rests … Continue reading →
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• The European Endowment for Democracy – a driver of change?

  
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  Central and East European democrats with direct experience of democratic transitions are better qualified to offer advice on democratization, according to the head of the new European Endowment for Democracy. The EED is “inspired” by the example of the US-based …
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• Large numbers of Christians fleeing oppression in Muslim countries

  
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  Fox News  put up an editorial about a tragedy that is often neglected by the liberal media. Excerpt: A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway.  Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. [...]In 2003, Iraq’s Christian population was at least one ...
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• Dual ‘Salafist jihadist’ threat to Tunisia’s transition

  
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    Tunisia’s major parties may have ended a months-old stalemate by negotiating a provisional agreement on the country’s future constitution, but the country’s democratic transition faces an overlapping threat from violent jihadists and ultra-conservative Salafists, say analysts.   “We have ...
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• Tom Friedman (not Tom Sawyer) Abroad in Yemen

  
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  Background image is Daniel Beard illustration for the 1899 edition of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad The well traveled journalist Thomas Friedman has popped up in Yemen, but apparently he has yet to find out that no one in Yemen drives a Lexus and Yemenis do not grow olive trees. Friedman has won many awards for ...
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• Revolts and Resistance

  
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  Over at Haus der Kulturen der Welt , Revolts and Resistance -- A Pan African Perspective" with Achille Mbembe : ...in January 2011: while the Arab World was in upheaval , a group of artists and journalists decry the erosion of democracy with the cry "Yen a marre! (Enough is Enough!)". What followed were an ...
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• Sayyid Qutb’s “Milestones” and Its Impact on the Arab Spring

  
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  By: Steven G. Zenishek While not democracy in the American image, the Arab Spring has the potential to bring Islamists into conflict with jihadists.
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