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18 August 2011
US-Arab disconnect: Revolutions restate region's priorities
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Ramzy Baroud
As the Arab Spring continues to challenge dictators, demolish old structures and ponder roadmaps for a better future, the US remains committed to its failed policies, misconceptions and selfish interests.

Arabs may disagree on...
14 August 2011
Red Shirts sidelined by Thailand's new government
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's first female prime minister did not give any cabinet positions to her Red Shirt parliamentary allies, despite their role in bringing her to power through their anti-coup insurrection last year which left 91...
11 August 2011
Thailand's female Prime Minister faces hostile U.S.-trained military
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Parliament elected Yingluck Shinawatra as Thailand's first female prime minister on Friday (August 5), but she faces a hostile U.S.-trained military which toppled her brother from power in a 2006 putsch and crushed...
10 August 2011
Gaza, Somalia: Humanity lives on
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Ramzy Baroud
I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had little to do with abstention from food and drink between dawn and sunset each day. For a child, there is little joy in...
06 August 2011
Spain's 'Indignados' at the vanguard of a global nonviolent revolt
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Pablo Ouziel
Last night Madrid's city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting "these are our weapons" and "this is a dictatorship" were...
04 August 2011
Competing narratives in Syria: Between tired slogans and a looming dawn
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Ramzy Baroud
There is no linear narrative capable of explaining the multifarious happenings that have gripped Syrian society in recent months. On March 23, as many as 20 peaceful protesters were killed at the hands of the Syrian regime's security...

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