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Syria Crisis: Assad Rejects Comparison With Egypt, Libya - 0 views

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    Since the Syrian crisis involves the possibility of a president stepping down, it is being more and more compared to Egypt and Nasser's reign. Assad wants the comparisons to stop because he believes that the Syrian state is different than that of Egypt's.
micklethwait

World Atlas of Income Inequality - 0 views

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    Comparisons of income inequality around the world.
petergrossmanseu

Kobane - Before and After The War - YouTube - 0 views

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    The video contains quite a bit of footage shot in the streets during firefights and also contains lots of before and after shots of the city. I found the direct before-and-after comparison shots really powerful and it was for a sort of visual representation of the scale of destruction going on.
cguybar

Muslim Brotherhood becoming more violent and radical, expert tells 'Post' - Middle East... - 0 views

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    This article focuses on the shift taking place in the brotherhood due to the revolutionary youth present. The comparison to violent jihadi groups are made, which highlight the violence.
sheldonmer

From Syria to Ukraine, social media opens up warfare | New York Post - 0 views

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      This article is about how blogger Eliot Higgins was involved in the social media revolution in Syria and now in the Ukraine. This article talks about how Higgins posted online from Syria to track weapons and pinpoint a chemical strike in Damascus from a computer in the English Midlands. He is now using the same techniques to investigate missiles in the Ukraine believe to have brought down flight MH17. This article is great for a comparison between the two p[laces and a has a great explanation of his social media techniques for social change.
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