2011 Arab Revolution links

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Wikileaks role in Tunisia revolution: honest revelation did what decades of quiet diplomacy didn't
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/25/whispering_at_autocrats?page=0,0
role of women in Tunisia; highly equal
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133248219/in-tunisia-women-play-equal-role-in-revolution

Egypt off the net, cell phones off
http://foolab.org/node/7892
Mubarak retrospective
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.mubarak/

VP Joe Biden calls Mubarak not a dictator. Will the US sell out the Arab people yet again?
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0127/Joe-Biden-says-Egypt-s-Mubarak-no-dictator-he-shouldn-t-step-down
police setting cars on fire
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/01/27/egypt.shutting.down.most.internet.access/

Mubarak humor
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/three_decades_of_a_joke_that_just_wont_die

protests spread to Yemen
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011127100660857.html

Comments

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Yes, the US will continue to sell out the populations of oil-producing countries to conveniently wobbly dictators. Sorry.