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Arab spring News : Feb 6, 2012

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US Senator: China Cannot Avoid ‘Arab Spring
Voice of America
Monday, 06 February 2012 US Senator: China Cannot Avoid ‘Arab Spring‘ VOA Tibetan A leading US senator and one-time presidential candidate is warning China, “the Arab Spring is coming.” Republican Senator John McCain made the comment to Chinese Vice
Syria standoff no Arab Spring – former Russian PM
RT
Primakov argues that the current events in Syria, as well as the ongoing crisis in Libya, cannot be viewed as a true Arab Spring, or people’s revolt against authoritarian regimes. In both countries, the crises started with armed revolts against the

RT
Jolie, Streep join Arab Spring at Berlin film fest
The Express Tribune
PHOTO: FILE The Arab Spring uprisings and political turmoil in the West will dominate the 62 nd Berlin film festival starting February 9, as Hollywood royalty sprinkles stardust in the frigid German capital. Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman,

The Express Tribune
The Lesson of the Arab Spring
Wall Street Journal
By ALWALEED BIN TALAL It’s been over a year now since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor, helped start what has become known as the Arab Spring. It was the final act of a despondent young man whose efforts to eke out a living for
Blue-Eyed Devil: West’s understanding of Arab Spring shallow, narcissistic
LSU The Reveille
Hosni Mubarak, Moammar Gadafi and Arab revolutions were the last things on my mind. I was too worried about meeting my mother-in-law. Thirty thousand feet below me, however, the Arab Spring was certainly no longer an ocean away.
John McCain irks Chinese officials with Arab Spring comments
GlobalPost (blog)
McCain, who lost the president race to President Barack Obama in 2008, told a senior Chinese official that it’s only a matter of time before the Arab Spring filters in to China. Beijing reacted last year to tiny protests in the Chinese capital with
Media Advisory – The Arab Spring – One Year After: Where is the Arab World
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
International Crisis Group’s Middle East and North Africa Program, will be at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) February 7 th to speak about the new political landscape that is taking shape in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Canadian man arrested in Bahrain could go free
CBC.ca
An Ottawa man who was arrested in Bahrain last Wednesday because of convictions connected to the Arab Spring protests could be released from custody Monday, according to his fiancée says. Naser al-Raas was facing a five-year prison sentence after being

CBC.ca
Ayaan Hirsi Ali:The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
Newsweek
We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives.

Newsweek
Demography Is Destiny in Syria
American Spectator
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi & Oskar Svadkovsky on 2.6.12 @ 6:08AMAmong the second wave of Arab Spring uprisings that followed Tunisia, Syria was the most spectacular “out of the blue” that suddenly arose in the face of the media and analytic community.
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