12/12 Chilling Warnings for Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go Bad

The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly.  Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks.  Armed men ebullient and shooting into the sky with adventurist stupidity.   The removal of statues and vulgar reminders of a regime.  Prisoners freed; torture prisons emptied.  The tyrant, deposed.

This is the scene in Syria, a war with more external backers and … Läs mer “12/12 Chilling Warnings for Syria: When Foreign Interventions Go Bad”

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Intressant SR-reportage: Arabisk vår blev vinter

På SR har nyligen utrikesmagasinet Konflikt haft ett program som summerar Arabiska våren.

Programmet, som är 56 minuter långt, har rubriken “Arabisk vinter”. Det är gjort av Sveriges Radios Mellanösternkorrespondenter Cecilia Uddén och Johan Mathias Sommarström. Det gör enligt min mening en utomordentligt bokslut över den arabiska våren. Rekommenderas verkligen.

Programmet illustrerar konkret utvecklingen i Tunisien,  Egypten, Libyen, … Läs mer “Intressant SR-reportage: Arabisk vår blev vinter”

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29/10 – Mass Uprising against Austerity and Corruption forces Lebanon Prime Minister and Cabinet to Resign

Published on Tuesday, October 29, 2019
by Common Dreams

“This is in response to the will and demand of the thousands of Lebanese demanding change,” Saad Hariri said in a televised address.
by
Jake Johnson, staff writer

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced Tuesday that he and his entire cabinet will resign amid mass protests against austerity and … Läs mer “29/10 – Mass Uprising against Austerity and Corruption forces Lebanon Prime Minister and Cabinet to Resign”

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