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The death of Gaddafi and the Year of the Popular Protest

The death of Muammar Qaddafi—a dictator who lived and died by the sword—is just one more seminal event in what has been, without a doubt, an exceptional year in the history of the world. It has been the Year of the Popular Protest, a fire that has left no corner of the globe untouched. The…

By Omar H. Rahman October 20, 2011

Cairo revolutionary graffiti (photo: Sarah Carr/Flickr)

The Arab revolutions will not be tweeted

The revolutions that toppled Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mubarak were not planned on Facebook, and they did not gather momentum on Twitter. Social media is a useful tool for many things, but critical mass can only be achieved through old-fashioned, face-to-face people power By Maath Musleh As the youth revolutions flourished in the Arab…

By +972 Magazine March 2, 2011

Demo against the barrier, Bil'in, 30 November 2007 (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills.org)

Bibi: democracies don’t shoot demonstrators

Last year, at the height of the Green Revolution in Iran, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave an interview in which he explained the difference between the way democracies act when faced by demonstrators agitating for their freedom, and the way in which non-democratic states act. In Iran, security agents were shooting and killing Reformist protesters.…

By Lisa Goldman January 5, 2011

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