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Greece on the brink of default
Broadcast Date: 13 Nov. 2011
Whither Egypt?
Interview mit Gilbert Achcar.
Quelle: Z-Net Communications, Saturday, February 5 2011
To help explain the thrilling developments in Egypt, Farooq Sulehria interviewed leading Arab scholar-activist Gilbert Achcar on February 4.
Do you think that Mubarak’s pledge on February 1st not to contest the next election represented a victory for the movement, or was it just a trick to calm down the masses as on the very next day demonstrators in Al-Tahrir Square were brutally attacked by pro-Mubarak forces?
Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship
Robert Fisk
Source: The Independent, 30.Januar 2011
The Egyptian tanks, the delirious protesters sitting atop them, the flags, the 40,000 protesters weeping and crying and cheering in Freedom Square and praying around them, the Muslim Brotherhood official sitting amid the tank passengers. Should this be compared to the liberation of Bucharest? Climbing on to an American-made battle tank myself, I could only remember those wonderful films of the liberation of Paris.
Greece: The decisions are taken abroad
Interview mit Yannis Almpanis vom Netzwerk für politische und soziale Rechte
Revisiting the 1989′s « revolutions »…
by Catherine Samary
December 2009
Outline
Twenty years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Timothy Garton Ash wrote that « in 1989, Europeans proposed a new model of non-violent, velvet revolution”. Some years before, instead, he used an interesting neologism -“refolution” - to describe the kind of systemic changes that had occurred, combining features of revolutions and of reforms from above.