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    Obama “Moonwalking” Human Rights in Africa?

    MARCH 17, 2013 11:27PM

    By al mariam


    Topics: politics, kenya election president 2013, alemayehu g mariam, obama reinhold niebuhr, obama ghana speech, arab spring, michael jackson moonwalk, u.s. policy kenya, michael posner assistant secretary of state for democracy human rights labor, corruption ethiopia, global financial integrity ethiopia, assistant attorney general lanny a. breuer, teodoro obiang asset seizure, teodoro obiang nguema mbasogo, equatorial guinea, nicaragua anastasio somoza, franklin d. roosevelt, robert mugabe frozen assets, susan e. rice sudan genocide, yuweri museveni, paul kagame, meles zenawi, jendayi frazer kenya, omar al-bashir icc, assistant secretary of state for african affairs johnnie carson kenya, secretary state john kerry kenya election, robert mcinturff kenya election, icc charges kenyatta, uhuru kenyatta international criminal court, orange democratic movement, raila odinga, mwai kibaki, kenya electoral commission, u.s. human rights policy africa, uhuru kenyatta president elect, walt whitman

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    Massaging the Arab Spring

    JANUARY 17, 2013 11:07PM

    By Sean Fenley


    Topics: arab nationalism, arab spring, gcc, nato, secular democracy, us

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    CONGRESS: AUSTERITY RIOTS COMING SOON TO A CITY NEAR YOU?

    DECEMBER 4, 2012 8:35AM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: the daily complaint, gordon hilgers, u. s. justice department, tax scofflaws, swiss bank accounts, cayman islands, offshore bank accounts, the super rich, equestrian classes, entitlements, medicare, social security, tax cuts, taxes, tea party express, tea party patriots, tea party nation, tea party, dysfunctional government, social discord, arab spring, lloyd blankfein, goldman sachs, 2008 downturn, pay to play, revolt of the elites, class war, economic equality, equality, freedom, justice, mulitnationals, the corporate state, corporatism, feudalism, americans for tax reform, grover norquist, the rich, washington consensus, the white house, barack obama, oil speculation, commodities futures leveraging, oil subsidies, corporate welfare, government extraction, looters, greek austerity riots, greece, indignatos, spain, london riots, occupy wall street, one percent, conservatism, austerity, fiscal cliff, republican party, congress, eric cantor, mitch mcconnell, john boehner

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    IS TEA PARTY CONDUCTING “PLANNED PROVOCATION”?

    OCTOBER 30, 2012 1:58PM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: the daily complaint, gordon hilgers, americans for tax reform, wall street, plutocracy, grover norquist, occupy wall street, arab spring, social networking, progressivism, liberalism, barack obama, stormfront, ron paul, libertarianism, voluntaryism, agorism, free market, bigotry, americans for prosperity, david and charles koch, koch industries, koch brothers, freedomworks, dick armey, tea party express, tea party patriots, tea party nation, tea party, american crossroads, crossroads usa, karl rove, fascism, totalitarianism, dissent, dirty tricks, planned provocation, provocation, politics, saul alinsky, simply politics, the real simply politics, u. s. a. ideological and theological melting pot, facebook, conservative movement, conservatism, republican party, paul ryan, mitt romney

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    Will History Repeat Itself?

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 11:57PM

    By Gordon Akagi


    Topics: japan, china, arab spring, presidential debates, american politics

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    Miscommunication in America

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 7:21PM

    By Marcus Hoffman


    Topics: revolution, corruption, libya syria, arab spring, television, media, politics

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    Chris Hedges & Dinesh Dsouza Debate The Obama Presidency

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 3:45PM

    By MrBillOfRights


    Topics: afghanistan, arab spring, bill of rights, birthers, chris hedges, constitution, dinesh dsouza, sonali kolhatkar, war on terror

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    • 8 Ratings
    • 2336 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Palestine's Arab Spring

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 6:17PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: abbas, arab spring, arafat, economist, fatah, fayyad, gaza, hamas, hebron, iran, islamists, israel, martin demsey, nablus, netanyahu, oslo peace accords, palestine, palestinian authority, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, west bank

    • 4 Ratings
    • 830 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    CNN and the Bahraini Royal Family - Part II

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 6:48PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: amber lyon, arab spring, bahrain, censorship, cnn, glenn greenwald, guardian, icnn, informercials, irevolution, king hamad, nabeel rajab, pr, pro-democracy movement, public relations, qorvis, saudi arabia

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 965 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Iraqi Flag: Seeds of Disunity

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 1:55PM

    By Darrell Rivers


    Topics: iraq, iraqi, saddam, arab spring, baath, flags, vexillology, kurd, kurdish, arab, president, flag, iraq, iraqi, saddam, baath

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 1241 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Free Syria Flag - Colors of the Arab Spring

    AUGUST 6, 2012 2:53PM

    By Darrell Rivers


    Topics: flags, flag, syria, free syria, assad, defect, arab spring, syrian, damascus, revolution

    • 5 Ratings
    • 821 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Free Syria Flag - The Colors of the Arab Spring

    JULY 17, 2012 7:54PM

    By Darrell Rivers


    Topics: free syria, assad, arab spring, middle east, flag, revolution, ba'ath, damascus, politics

    • 1 Ratings
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    • 4 Comments
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    Egypt First Lady... one of many Firsts

    JULY 7, 2012 12:47AM

    By ahmediatv


    Topics: egypt first lady, egypt, muslims leaders, muslim woman, islamophobia, arab spring, president morsi

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1308 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    PHOTO ESSAY: Cartooning for Peace

    JULY 5, 2012 5:35PM

    By Jennifer Prestholdt


    Topics: editorial cartoon, cartoon, arab spring, freedom of expression, human rights, peace, respect, tolerance, women's human rights, women's rights, feminism, photography, travel

    • 1 Ratings
    • 241 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Democracy's Pulse in Egypt

    MAY 19, 2012 10:53AM

    By Howard Steven Friedman


    Topics: politics, world news, peaceful revolution, mohamed mursi, democracy, arab spring, ahmed shafik, muslim brotherhood, egypt protests, egypt, mohamed elbaradei, amr moussa

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    The Virginity Test... of the Egyptian military

    MAY 15, 2012 10:07AM

    By ahmediatv


    Topics: virginity test, arab spring, scaf, youth revolution, women activists, egypt, revolution, sexism

    • 17 Ratings
    • 977 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    ISRAEL: What needs to be done?

    APRIL 3, 2012 5:50PM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: israel, iran, syria, egypt, itzka rabin, mideast peace process, arab spring, basher assad, ayatollah khameni, belief/religion, environment, news, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 565 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Spirit Murder of Trayvon Martin

    MARCH 21, 2012 7:06PM

    By SeventhSister


    Topics: stand your ground, belief/religion, news, politics, trayvon martin, george zimmerman, racism, florida, police, african americans, criminal justice, civil rights, black males, race, arab spring

    • 16 Ratings
    • 951 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    A Gigantic Vacuum

    MARCH 14, 2012 1:20AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: politics, news, economy, china, eu crisis, arab spring, barack obama, occupy wall street, gop primary

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1880 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    An Arab Spring Without Support (Updated)

    FEBRUARY 14, 2012 8:24PM

    By profkeck


    Topics: politics, news, united states, obama, syria, libya, arab spring, mohamed nasheed, maumoon abdul gayoom, mohammed waheed, tunisia, maldives, democracy, robert blake, coup

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