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Ali Abdullah Saleh’s Rule Over Yemen Ends.

Thirty three years of dictatorship have come to an end today in Yemen. As reported earlier, President Ali Abdullah Saleh will step down from his seat immediately making him the fourth authoritarian ruler to have been ousted in the Arab Spring. Saleh signed an agreement in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, transferring power to […]

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Egypt’s Tahrir Square is a Scene of Chaos After Violent Crackdown by Egyptian Security Forces.

Protestors in Cairo have been mercilessly beaten down by Egyptian Security Forces in an attempt to quell the protests still raging in now famous Tahrir Square, scene of the revolution against long time dictator Hosni Mubarak’s rule. In a protest raging for its second night, security forces unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas on protestors […]

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The Rise of Qatar: How a Tiny Emirate in the Middle East is Turning the Arab Spring to Its Advantage.

Qatar is probably best known in the west as the home of media outlet Al Jazeera and perhaps secondly as a less grand, Dubai-esque sheikdom in the Middle East. Recent events in the Middle East such as the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the fall of Qaddafi in Libya and the toppling of Mubarak […]

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Violence Against Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Intensifies in Syria.

According to Al Jazeera at least 70 people have been killed in the “bloodiest day” in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s government, many of the victims in the province of Deraa. Syrian Security Forces are responsible for the majority of the killings according to human rights groups in Syria. Regional condemnation of Assad’s regime continues, […]

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North Koreans in Libya Cannot Come Home for Fear of Importing Revolution.

Libya and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea were quite friendly prior to the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. Now that Gaddafi’s dictatorship has joined the likes of Ozymandias, Kim Jong-il is wary to have those North Koreans return, most of whom were sent abroad to Libya and elsewhere to work on anything from […]

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Clerics in Syria speak out against Bashar al-Assad

In a further continuation of the Arab Spring developments aka history unrolling before our very eyes, clerics in Syria are now speaking out against the regime. Sariya al-Rifai, a pillar of the orthodox clerical establishment, has broken ranks with the government and is openly warning President al-Assad to stop the crackdown, citing its being an […]

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