Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

EGYPT: Egypt's re-revolution going viral

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Though Mohammed Morsi was a flawed President, he was democratically elected. Photo / AP Muslims around the globe are joining protests...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

OPINION: Egypt's re-revolution going viral

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Muslims around the globe are joining protests on streets and on social media against military takeover. Protests have spontaneously er...
Friday, February 25, 2011

EGYPT: Terror myth clouds reality of Egypt revolution

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What a terrible waste. One of the few moderate Arab nations has been rocked by a revolution. Beady-eyed hairy-faced Islamo-fascists po...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

COMMENT: The neo-Con fantasy comes unstuck

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Here’s an example of the kind of fruitloop reasoning that makes so many American conservatives such a laughing stock: Are the Arabs capab...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

VIDEO: 30 years of dictatorship ended in 34 seconds ...

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... and after 18 days of protests across the country in which hundreds were murdered using US-supplied bullets by thugs under the employ of ...
Friday, February 04, 2011

CRIKEY: Al Jazeera English’s Cairo performance: it’s the new CNN

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Last night, ABC24’s coverage turned from cyclone Yasi to Egypt at about 7.45. ABC correspondent  Ben Knight  was interviewed as he stood in...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

POLITICS: Egyptian intifada

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It's times like these that speaking and reading Arabic would come in handy. Still, we'll make do with English-language sources and t...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

AFGHANISTAN: Rudd government celebrates the changed circumstances ...

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Australia's Immigration Minister has unilaterally announced that the situation in Afghanistan is changing for the better. Wonderful. N...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

OPINION: Santa Claus is an Australian politician ...

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With Christmas coming up, and before the tabloids start printing stories about nasty non-Christians conspiring against nativity scenes in sh...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

COMMENT: The columnist who wants to bomb Iranians accuses his opponents of not doing enough for them ...

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Back in January 2007, Greg Sheridan praised former US President George W Bush for defying conventional wisdom and popular sentiment in his...
Monday, June 22, 2009

IRAN: Maz Jobrani's serious reflections on Iran ...

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Maz Jobrani is an American comedian of Iranian extraction who has toured with the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. He has also visited Australia ....
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

IRAN: Post-election situation ...

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If I was able to read and understand Farsi, I'd be able to provide a more comprehensive analysis. Instead, like most readers, I'll h...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

CRIKEY: Iranian elections: of mullahs, women and Jews

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If you believe everything you read in the op-ed pages of The Australian or watch on Fox News, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Iran is a...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

VIDEO/POLITICS: Miscellaneous reports on the Iranian Presidential Election ...

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Iranian reformists try new media to win votes Political reformists in Iran have long accused Irib, the state-run broadcaster, of biased repo...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

OPINION/CRIKEY: Khatami: a case for dialogue ...

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Last night, I was among the crowd who filled a large lecture theatre at the Australian National University in Canberra to hear a presentatio...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

POLITICS/PAKISTAN: Useful lawyers ...

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Lawyers are often considered sources of division, as leeches who suck not just blood but even marrow from their communities and their local ...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

VIDEO/US: How the Bush administration fudged the budget ...

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The US has a budget deficit of over $1 trillion. The exact composition of this deficit - as in how much was pent on which areas of expenditu...