Tunisia
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Tunisia and the IMF's Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 22 January, 2011
22 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Twitter topples Tunisia? National Post When President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on Jan. 14, Tunisians declared victory and social-networking site Twitter went berserk with traffic. … www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Twitter+topples+Tunisia/4148834/story.html Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 21 January, 2011
21 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Tunisia mourns fallen protesters Atlanta Journal Constitution AP TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisians have lowered flags and state television is playing recitations of the Quran to mourn dozens who died in protests that drove … www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/tunisia-mourns-fallen-protesters-810622.html Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Algeria’s Midwinter Uproar by Jack Brown
Soon after the onset of protests which eventually toppled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, a wave of riots swept through Algeria as well, with many neighborhoods in the capital of Algiers and dozens of smaller cities overwhelmed by thousands of angry young men who closed down streets with burning tires, attacked police stations… Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 20 January, 2011
20 January, 2011 — creative-i.info State media: Tunisian ministers quit ousted president’s party CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) — All ministers in Tunisia’s new unity government have quit the ousted president’s party, state media reported … edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/20/tunisia.protests/ Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 January, 2011: Racism In Jewish Schools; “A Dead Arab Is A Good Arab”
19 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Eyes At Demolishing Palestinian Village To Expand Settlement IMEMC – Thursday January 20, 2011 – 01:50, Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday “Khirbit At Taweel”, a small village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and handed the residents military orders to demolish… Continue reading
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Tunisia’s Wall Has Fallen by Nadia Marzouki
For the first time in decades, Tunisia is free of one-man rule. The extraordinary events of December 2010 and January 2011 have been nothing less than a political revolution: The consistent pressure of popular fury forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali first to make an unprecedented promise to relinquish power; then pushed him to… Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 19 January, 2011
19 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Moody’s Downgrades Tunisia Amid Upheaval Wall Street Journal By LEILA HATOUM DUBAI—Moody’s Investor Service Inc. downgraded Tunisia’s sovereign rating by one notch Wednesday and changed the country’s outlook to … online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704590704576091222603717338.html Continue reading
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Tunisia: For a Constitutional Assembly to Lay the Foundations of a Democratic Republic By Hamma Hammami
Democratic change cannot spring from the same party, figures, institutions, apparatuses, and legislations that maintained the dictatorship and deprived the people of basic rights for more than half a century, 23 years of which under Ben Ali. Continue reading
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Tunisia: A Revolution That Goes All the Way? By Dyab Abou Jahjah
The regime is playing its last card today in Tunisia. That last Card is the RCD (the party of the former dictator). After the formation of a so-called “National Unity Government ” yesterday, and after the UGTT (the largest trade union in the country) supported and even participated in it with three ministers, alongside three… Continue reading
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Tunisia: The Struggle for Legitimacy By Dyab Abou Jahjah
In Tunisia, a new government is being formed under the leadership of the RCD (the party of the fallen dictator) and with the participation of some legalized opposition parties. All parties that were illegal under the old regimes are being excluded, however, and this is stirring up a lot of controversy among parts of the… Continue reading
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The Lesson of the Tunisian Revolution By Hassan Nasrallah
I’d like to take this occasion to congratulate the Tunisian people for their historic revolution as well as praise their bravery. But we must draw a lesson from that revolution. The lesson, above all, is this: the Ben Ali regime and its entourage have always served the interests of France, the United States, and the… Continue reading
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Tunisia: The Logic of Revolution By Dyab Abou Jahjah
The Tunisian revolution continues to dictate its own logic on all levels. . . . After attempts by regime leftovers to spread chaos by several techniques (cars driving through the streets shooting at people and houses randomly, destroying infrastructure, etc.), the Tunisian people organized itself in committees that spread all across the country, in every… Continue reading
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The Political Economy of 'Democracy Promotion' By Jamie Stern-Weiner
Thus far, a month into the massive demonstrations rocking Tunisia, the Washington Post editorial page has published exactly zero editorials about Tunisia. For that matter, the Weekly Standard, another magazine which frequently claims the mantle of Arab democracy and attacks Obama for failing on it, has thus far published exactly zero articles about Tunisia. Continue reading
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Notes on the Tunisian Revolution By Dyab Abou Jahjah
From day one it was clear this was a revolution that was not about bread only, it was also against dictatorship and corruption. The revolution was supported by all segments of society. Poor, middle class, and even upper middle class. Especially the middle class showed its claws in the last days in Tunis. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 January, 2011: The Brutal Truth About Tunisia
17 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House WikiLeaks: US Cables Claim: Iran developing nuclear bomb with help of more than 30 countries By Reuters The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten quotes U.S. diplomatic cables as saying that Iran is racing to achieve nuclear bomb before its economy collapses due to sanctions. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27270.htm Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 18 January, 2011
18 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Citizens hopeful as new Tunisian government forms CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) — As Tunisians adjust to a new government following the ouster of their longtime president, some say they are … edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/18/tunisia.protests/ Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 17 January, 2011
17 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Tunisia May Form Coalition After Ben Ali Overthrow BusinessWeek 17 (Bloomberg) — Tunisia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi said he may announce a coalition government today after Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the … www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-17/tunisia-may-form-coalition-after-ben-ali-overthrow.html Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks 16 January, 2011
16 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Libya’s Gaddaffi pained by Tunisian revolt, blames WikiLeaks Monsters and Critics.com Cairo/Tripoli – Libyan President Moammar Gaddaffi said he was pained by events in Tunisia surrounding the overthrow of former president Zine al-Abedine ben … www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/news/article_1612073.php/Libya-s-Gaddaffi-pained-by-Tunisian-revolt-blames-WikiLeaks Continue reading
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