Burman: Arab Spring transforms into Arab Revolution
Toronto Star
This was the week when the unfinished Arab Spring became the enduring Arab Revolution. Hard and unflinching. The period of youthful idealism was over. It was time for the fabled “Arab Street” to reclaim its place. The result was a dramatic challenge to…
Islamist party takes most seats in Morocco poll
Boston.com
Moroccans voted for a new parliament Friday in Arab Spring-inspired elections that are facing a boycott by democracy campaigners who say the ruling monarchy isn’t committed to real change. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar) By Paul Schemm Associated Press …
Stained with Blood: True colours of Arab Spring puppet regimes
RT
And as RT’s Gayane Chichakayan reports, it’s become something of a trend for countries caught up in the Arab Spring. RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews.
Spy game revs up with Arab Spring
National Post
“When it comes to the Arab Spring, espionage is 100% full speed ahead,” said Loch Johnson, Regents professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia. In Iran, the recent revelations of espionage — defined as the gathering of information, …
ARAB SPRING DEVELOPMENTS
Pioneer Press
RABAT, Morocco: Morocco’s Arab Spring-inspired parliamentary elections saw a 45 percent turnout rate on Friday in the face of a boycott called by democracy activists who say the ruling monarchy isn’t committed to real change.
Photos: 2011, the Year of Popular Uprisings: Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street …
International Business Times
What else do the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests, the anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain, and the anti-corruption campaign in India herald? The Arab Spring, which started in Tunisia Dec. 18, 2010, following Mohamed Bouazizi’s …
In Arab Spring, a Young Man’s Fancy Turns to…
National Review Online (blog)
By Mark Steyn …sexual assault. At the time of the attack on CBS News reporter Lara Logan, I wrote: Is this a one-off crime? Or a cultural faultline? Caroline Sinz told France 3 television, her employer, that she and her cameraman were set upon by …
Dreamers about Arab Spring in Sudan will Wait for Long, Al Bashir
Sudan Vision
For his part, Vice Chairman of NCP Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie stated that the conference will review reports to be submitted on legal, organizational and executive performance of the party, pointing out that the conference coincide with Arab Spring …
Raasch: In an American spring, a little thanks for Congress
Cincinnati.com
WASHINGTON — As strange as this question sounds given all the problems we face, is this an American spring? While we’ve labeled the halting, violent democratic movements in the Middle East an Arab spring, at home tea partiers and Wall Street occupiers …
Bahrain: Ban welcomes report on alleged rights violations, urges steps to spur …
UN News Centre
The protests in Bahrain this year were part of the wider Arab Springpopular movement that swept across North Africa and the Middle East and has led to the toppling of long-standing leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen.