When nonviolent demonstrations (like occupying a public sidewalk) and online civil disobedience (like crashing a website) against Wall Street’s crimes and the hijacking of American democracy by big-moneyed interests strike fear into the U.S. security state, it only makes…
Nabeel Rajab believes in the power of social media, and he wants his government to know it. Speaking at the CIVICUS World Assembly in Montreal, the Bahraini activist embraced such communication and specifically requested that all live- Tweeters «hashtag» his…
The people are unhappy; the dictator is oppressive. But how to turn protest into regime change? Peter Popham meets the man who created the blueprint for 21st-century rebellion Question: what do the so-called «colour» revolutions – Georgia (2003) and…
Poland will soon run a US-designed computer simulation exercise to help senior officials from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya learn how to manage unstable states in political transition. The SENSE program was developed by the US Institute for Defense…
A surgeon from south Wales has spoken of his role at the forefront of the Libyan uprising. Nizar Mhani, 30, left Cardiff for the Libyan capital Tripoli in February to «play his part» in overturning Col Gaddafi’s 42-year…
Former dissident and now publisher of Poland’s biggest newspaper honoured for work for international cultural relations One of Poland‘s leading journalists and intellectuals has been awarded the Goethe medal in recognition of his «outstanding» contribution to the dialogue…
Iran’s pardon of activists involved in protests of the 2009 presidential election did not include former candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, shown here at a 2009 rally. He remains under house arrest. (AFP/Getty Images / August 29, 2011) Iran’s supreme…
Syrians should not take up arms in their uprising against President Bashar Assad or invite foreign military action like the intervention that helped topple the government of Libya, a prominent activist group warned Monday. There have been scattered…
Outcry: Citizens demonstrate in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 20, 2011. Similar protests had already led President Ben Ali to flee the country; now the protesters were angry that members of his party remained in the transitional government. Audio » Editor’s…
Photo: Reuters A Bahrain woman looks at pictures of victims of the February 14 uprising, displayed at an exhibition during a gathering held by the Al Fateh Youth Union in Isa Town, south of Manama, Bahrain, July 28, 2011…
