For weeks, Bahrain’s Shi’ite-dominated opposition movement felt it had been suffering in a bubble.
Can Obama’s Middle East Speech Aid Reform in Bahrain?
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Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa, the fly, feisty, mustachioed electrician from Gdansk, shaped the 20th century as the leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Poles out of communism. It is one of history’s great ironies that the nearest thing we have ever seen to a genuine workers’ revolution was directed against a so-called workers’ state.
HBO Documentary ‘Burma Soldier’ Reveals Life Under Junta
Burma has been rendered in journalism, activism and art as a country of plain dichotomies: good vs.
Berating General Pasha: Pakistan’s Spy Chief Gets a Tongue-Lashing
The head of Pakistan’s powerful Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence offered his resignation to the country’s prime minister on Friday as he sought to defend the role of the spy agency. Lieut.
Striking At the Source
Word leaked out almost as soon as the giant U.S.
Why Singapore’s Much-Hyped Elections Won’t Mean Much
The campaign leading to Singapore’s May 7 general election had the trappings of a larger political drama.
As Singapore Gets Ready to Vote, New Media Amplifies Voice of Opposition
Elections in Singapore rarely surprise. The ruling People’s Action Party , created in 1954 by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father, has won every general election since 1959
Nation: Anti-ERA Evangelist Wins Again
Feminine but forceful, Phyllis Schlafly is a very liberated womanLooking crisp and composed in a red shirtwaist dress, red-white-and-blue scarf and frosted hair, Phyllis Schlafly arrived last week at the Illinois capitol with 500 followers. To symbolize their opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, which was about to be voted on in the house, the women had brought loaves of home-baked bread—apricot, date nut, honey-bran and pumpkin
The Prisoners of Syria: What Detainees Can Expect from Assad
Unconfirmed reports that Syrian army troops were battling each other were an indication of how divided the country is regarding dealing with political dissent. The Damascus regime’s reputation for brutality is fearsome.
Yemen’s Crisis: The Opposition Splits from the Street
On Tuesday, when Yemen’s opposition coalition, the Joint Meeting Parties , agreed to a weekend initiative that offered immunity to President Ali Abdullah Saleh in exchange for his resignation in 30 days, street protesters throughout the country were enraged. The way the mostly young activists of the demonstrations saw it, their grassroots movement was being usurped and their voices drowned out