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24 Dead in Fresh Yemen Violent Repression
Violent repression of Yemen’s protesters led to 24 deaths on Tuesday in Sanaa and Taizz. Demonstrations were put down near Sanaa university, and dissident Gen. […]
Impatient Rebels Critique NATO Aid
Gen. Abdelfatah Yunis, the commander of rebel military forces in Benghazi expressed dissatisfaction on Tuesday with the pace of the NATO/ UN intervention in his […]
Amnesty Int’l: United Nations Must Reject Israeli Campaign to Avoid Accountability for Gaza War Crimes
This came to me as a news release from Amnesty International: Amnesty International Public Statement Tuesday, April 5, 2011 United Nations Must Reject Israeli Campaign […]
UN Allies Strike Convoy near Brega as Rebels begin Oil Exports
NATO airstrikes near the oil city of Brega (Marsa al-Buraiqa) on Tuesday morning repelled the advance of an 8-vehicle military convoy of Qaddafi loyalists. The […]
Japan Nuclear Woes Galvanize Indian Protests
Indian peasants in Maharashtra are protesting plans to build a nuclear plant on an earthquake fault at Jaitapur. India has an ambitious set of plans […]
Libyan Rebels Aspire to Democracy
The USG Open Source Center translates an article about a rebel news conference in which they lay out their vision of Libya’ future: Libya’s TNC […]
Crackdowns Against Arab Spring Continue
1. Tens of thousands of protesters are said to have come out in the Yemeni city of Taizz on Monday, but were fired on by […]
Libyan Rebels Grateful to West, say Qaddafi Psycho
The USG Open Source Center translates radio broadcasts on Sunday of the Voice of Free Libya Radio, which is based in Benghazi: ‘ Libyan Rebel […]
Westbrook: Half-Measures in Libya will Fail
Here is David A. Westbrook’s guest column for Informed Comment It is in many ways a critique of the position Juan Cole has taken, that […]
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