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In Iran, We Learned that Information Grenades Are Hard to Defuse

In Iran, We Learned that Information Grenades Are Hard to Defuse London The moment when the new politics of the Middle East first revealed its face may well have occurred three years ago when an...

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Egypt’s Revolution, Reloaded — With Less Violence, and Less Optimism

Egypt’s Revolution, Reloaded — With Less Violence, and Less Optimism Cairo The Egyptian revolution has returned in force to central Cairo, with the same huge crowds of young protesters, the same...

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The Morning After Libya’s Night Before May Prove Post-Traumatic

The Morning After Libya’s Night Before May Prove Post-Traumatic Benghazi, Libya Six months ago, a typical week in Sadus Jahmi’s life was defined by her high-school class in Green Book Studies, in which...

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Freed from Gadhafi, Some Libyans in East Now Begin Battle Against Zealotry

Freed from Gadhafi, Some Libyans in East Now Begin Battle Against Zealotry Benghazi One of the few really steady jobs in liberated eastern Libya these days is that of caricaturist, and guys such as...

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As Putin Sets Back Democracy’s Clock, Russia Awaits its Next Revolution

As Putin Sets Back Democracy’s Clock, Russia Awaits its Next Revolution As if to provide a useful metaphor for Russian politics, Vladimir Putin recently emerged from the Black Sea, in a scuba suit,...

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This is Where the Euro Crisis Becomes a Political Catastrophe

This is Where the Euro Crisis Becomes a Political Catastrophe We have now entered a very dangerous place, here in Europe, where the economic and monetary crisis is triggering a widespread crisis of...

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The Inevitable Economics of Tahrir Square

The Inevitable Economics of Tahrir Square Cairo on Friday was a tableau of bloodied faces, firebombs and rocks, club-swinging soldiers and turbulent street battles. If this year began with a simple...

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Do the Chinese People a Favour, and Stop Calling Them ‘Western values’

Do the Chinese People a Favour, and Stop Calling Them ‘Western values’ If you want to identify the most harmful idea in the world, it would be hard to avoid the phrase “Western values.” From over here,...

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Democracy Comes From Voters, Not Political-Party Members

Democracy Comes From Voters, Not Political-Party Members Who gets to make the most important political decisions? Is it everyone 18 and older, gathered at the ballot box at election time? Is it the...

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From Kiev to Cairo, The New Protest: Not For Democracy, But Against its...

From Kiev to Cairo, The New Protest: Not For Democracy, But Against its Rotten Fruits Kiev It seems as if the world has broken out in mass, government-threatening protests: Caracas, Ankara, Bangkok and...

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