I read a recent blog of the current events in Iran that states 'We Are the Media'.It should have been more like 'We are the breakfast club.
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FREEDOM
Transformation is now licking at the feet of appalling Mideast regimes
The only region of the world to remain impervious to any kind of democratic process is now shaken by deep societal change and the status quo is no longer possible. It may take years, it may take more brutality and a temporary falling into more rigid theocracies or military/paramilitary domination but the wave of transformation that has gradually changed all of Latin America and many African countries is now licking at the feet of the appalling regimes of the Middle East
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Easier to revolt than to rebuild as the Iranian experience has shown
The revolts in Tunisia and Egypt will go down the history as two of the fastest and easiest "revolutions" of all time! It is almost certain that the US was instrumental in bringing the rapid change, and this is good news for people and bad news for dictators. The American involvement by no means should belittle the heroism of the Egyptian people. They have made their history again and we should all hope that the consequences will be equally hospitable
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DOMINO
We have collectively tolerated systematic abuse of our people
While the partying has just begun in Egypt, and the descendants of Pharaoh begin a Spring Break of the Great Sphinx proportions, the rest of the Arab world remains quietly sober. Token price cuts in food, and other staples, and transparently foolish surprise raises for government employees, and random ransacking of parliaments, the latest insulting attempt to bribe their people by the last remnants of Arab despotism around the Persian Gulf
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