Revolution is an Export Tunisia Can Be Proud of
Tunisia is known for exporting olive oil and deglet nour dates but is pleased to add revolution as one of its principal items of export.
Al-Jazeera English: TV You Can’t Watch on TV
Many Americans are starving for a cable news channel that covers international affairs in depth.
Fiction Blossoms into Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution
A literary novel from 1990 becomes a historical reality on the streets of Tunisia in 2011.
U.S. Middle-East Policy: “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil — Just Practice It, Then Act Surprised”
It is not only Mubarak’s regime which has been discredited, but 32 years of U.S. support.
There Goes the Neighborhood
Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, dictators are cursing at Tunisia.
Tunisia’s Spark and Egypt’s Flame: the Middle East is Rising
The Arab world plays dominoes with empire.
Mothers of the Jasmine Revolution
Tunisian women were at the forefront of their revolution, and they are trying to make their voices heard in the transition as well.
Carthage under Siege
The “Tunisian Miracle” of dictator Ben Ali offered economic progress in exchange for civil liberties and thus sowed the seeds of discord.
SOTU: Really, Mr. President?
The Iraq War isn’t wrapping up, the Afghanistan War is failing, and we can’t afford either one. If we are ever going to find 15 million jobs, we need to end the wars and cut military spending.
Who’s More Delusional? Former Tunisian President Ben Ali or Washington?
If Baby Doc returned to Haiti, why not Ben Ali to Tunisia?
The United States and the Prospects for Democracy in Islamic Countries
Tunisia is not the only democracy movement in the Muslim world, but will the United States provide consistent support to them all?
Arab Democracy Now!
Will Tunisia be the beginning of the Arab world’s 1989?
New York Times Finally Deigns to Cover Tunisia
Why has the mainstream media taken a pass on covering the Tunisian crisis?
Pro-Democracy Uprising Fails to Keep Washington From Backing Tunisian Dictatorship
In recent decades, largely nonviolent insurrections such as Tunisia’s have toppled corrupt authoritarian rulers from the Philippines to Serbia to the Ukraine.
Tunisia: Yezzi Fock (Enough!)
Tunisia has reached the point where the military seems to be trying to protect the people from the president.