Arab spring News : Apr 15, 2012

Algeria offers own brand of “Arab Spring” for vote
Reuters
Campaigning underway for May 10 parliamentary election * Demands for change after “Arab Spring” revolts * Gov’t reforms should make vote more democratic * Opponents say elite still not willing to cede power By Christian Lowe ALGIERS, April 15 (Reuters)…

Arab Spring Tensions At The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
Daily Beast
The spat may be symptomatic of mutual suspicion since the Arab Spring. Conservative Gulf states have scrambled to contain the spread of rebellion, while voicing support for the revolutions (the UAE was the biggest investor in Mubarak’s Egypt).

Daily Beast

Internet Radio Powers On After Arab Spring
AllAfrica.com
Since the spring of 2011, the EDA has been expanding its role, conducting audio training to raise awareness on being active citizens and evaluate platforms of election candidates. Prominent figures at EDA include Esraa Abdel Fattah, 29, …

‘Arab Spring is a blessing, but has also brought chaos, instability’ __ PM
Ammon News
Welcoming Secretary general of the Union of Arab Jurists UAJ Shabib Maliki and members of the union, he said the Arab Spring was a blessing as it came to prove that the Arabs are a vibrant nation, but at the same time it brought chaos and instability.

Ammon News

Inter-Parliamentary Union offers lessons from the Arab Spring
Independent.co.ug
The causes and the repulsive results of what came to be known as the Arab Spring as discussed at the assembly are exactly similar to the prevailing situation in Uganda that most Ugandans, especially the opposition, have grumbled about for over a year …

Algerian election campaign kicks off
NECN
It is Algeria’s first election since the demonstrations and uprisings of the Arab Springswept the region and prompted the president to put forward a series of reforms. “We cannot emphasize enough the importance of massive participation in the May 10 …

Condoleezza Rice Addresses BYU Community on the American Paradox
Forbes
Discussing life outside government service, the inevitability of the Arab Spring, the universal value of freedom, the exceptionality of the United States, and my personal favourite, the American paradox of individuality and global community.

Forbes

Media Disinformation and the “Arab Spring” Color Revolutions
Center for Research on Globalization
With these things in mind it is doubtful that Izzy would have approved of Democracy Now’s often misleading coverage of the “Arab Spring” and its specific Tahir Square genesis. The basic protocols of investigative journalism call for the fundamental …