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sheldonmer

How State Failure Is Deepening Class Tensions in Egypt | Sara Khorshid - 0 views

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egypt egyptian revolution social classes social structure

shared by sheldonmer on 17 Nov 14 - No Cached
    • sheldonmer
      sheldonmer on 17 Nov 14
       
      I wanted to share this article because it is a story about the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution. It talks about how tensions between classes is are becoming stronger due to the failing state. It discusses how many middle class Egyptians are forced to pay fees for things they do not want. One example it gives is that a mother who goes to the hospital for birth must pay tips to all people working at the hospital at time of birth, regardless if they helped you give birth or not. This article goes on to discuss many socioeconomic structure problems and how they are adding strain to Egypt.
nicolet1189

Ignorant jihadis 'have bought into fantasy fuelled by social media' | World news | The ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...antasy-fuelled-by-social-media

ISIS Recruitment Taliban War

shared by nicolet1189 on 19 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • boys aged between 10 and 20 who had been radicalised by the Taliban.
  • They all told the same story, sa
  • “They all had impoverished backgrounds, they were illiterate, their families had been approached by the Taliban and were coerced into abandoning their children, they were lambs to the slaughter,” she said.
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  • Those from the west are naive and lack imagination, they are chasing a fictional dream, and they often have barely any knowledge of what Islam is.”
  • The book aspiring Isis militants most commonly ordered online before taking off to Syria was Islam for Dummies, she said.
  • “What Isis has done, and they have exceed al-Qaida in this, is take really spectacular control of the narrative of their organisation while sharing that story through masterful use of all mechanisms of the media,” she said
  • propaganda and recruitment videos spreading the jihadi message w
  • Ten years ago, it was difficult to access and acquire videos like the beheadings we have seen unless you were part of an inner circle, but now this material is mainstream, you can access it just by opening Twitter,”
  • “If you are a young person with limited imagination, a limited sense of self, and you are uninclined to engage with your neighbours, friends and a pluralistic society, you are very easily seduced. You’re like a blank canvas.”
  • Differentiating between Islam and Islamism
  • Islamism promotes explicit totalitarianism and the belief that Islam historically had incredible global and geopolitical glory that should be restored through violence, jihadism and barbarity
agomez117

The Voice of Art: Street Art - 1 views

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egypt

shared by agomez117 on 10 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • agomez117 on 10 Nov 14
     
    Every inner city area has its fair share of buildings tattooed with layers of colorful graffiti and gang symbols. Given the stigma attached to graffiti, one would not expect to find true art on cracking walls, between trash cans, and on street signs. However, a more advanced form of graffiti-street art-conveys a deeper expression of the artist.
sheldonmer

Getting Started with Chrome extension - Diigo help - 0 views

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Diigo Chrome

shared by sheldonmer on 10 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
  • Highlighting can also be accomplished from the context pop-up. After the Chrome extension is installed, whenever you select text on a webpage, the context pop-up will appear, allowing you to accomplish text-related annotation. Highlight Pop-up Menu – After you highlight some text, position your mouse cursor over it and the highlight pop-up menu will appear. The highlight pop-up menu allows you to add notes to, share, or delete the highlight.
  • Sticky Note Click the middle icon on the annotation toolbar to add a sticky note to the page. With a sticky note, you can write your thoughts anywhere on a web page.
nicolet1189

Twitter, terror and free speech: Should Twitter block Islamic snuff videos? | The Econo... - 0 views

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ISIS free speech Social Media twitter censorship

shared by nicolet1189 on 10 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • YouTube removed one version of the video, citing a violation of their policy on violent content. On Tuesday, Twitter announced a new policy that it would remove images and video of the deceased at the request of family member
  • g #ISISMediaBlackout
  • The logical incoherence of this statement aside, is disseminating offensive material the same thing as promoting it? It is conceivable that the video could incite potential terrorists and others harboring anti-American sentiments to copycat acts of violence. But it is equally true that content of this kind wakes people up t
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  • Should platforms like YouTube and Twitter really have the power to censor what content we can or cannot see? At least in America, the suppression of disturbing or offensive content, if it does not incite violence, is a direct violation of our principles of free speech. Especially in this instance, it seems deeply inappropriate to respond to authoritarianism with authoritarian action.
  • Part of ISIS’s aim is presumably to terrorise us remotely, but most people are just getting angry.
  • Does it matter what ISIS wants?
  • Others have argued that the video shouldn’t be shared because that’s what ISIS wants.
  • intentionality does not factor into censorship decisions anyway. 
  • Twitter is not television. No one is being forced to view the footage.
  • It’s completely understandable that family members don’t want footage of a loved one’s death to spread, but it’s not clear that that’s their decision to make.
  • It’s really not Twitter’s decision either—unless we want to grant tech giants the power to control public knowledge and discourse, a dangerous precedent indeed.
  • Its democratic power derives from the fact that it’s unedited; for better or for worse,
  • nicolet1189 on 10 Nov 14
     
    The author of this article strongly opposes Social Media companies, specifically Twitter censoring ISIS related materials on their website. The author argues it violates free speech and the democratic principles associated with the website, arguing censoring a beheading video would be a slippery slope for future content.
nfyffe

A deep understanding of "Resistance is Life" guarantees our bright future - 1 views

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shared by nfyffe on 28 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • nfyffe on 28 Sep 14
     
    Denial, elimination, mass murder, and ethnocide have constituted the main policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in dealing with the national groups in this country. Totalitarian tendencies coupled with the lack of toleration of national and cultural pluralities inherent in the Iranian geographic order, with the Kurdish nation presenting itself at the top, was made manifest in the ominous duality of prison and execution, of which the Kurdish nation received a lion share.
wmulnea

OPEC and oil prices: Leaky barrels | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/...dermining-cartel-leaky-barrels

shared by wmulnea on 05 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • OPEC, which produces about a third of the world’s daily consumption of 90m barrels of crude oil
  • cartel
  • anti-glut group
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  • the country will produce 14m barrels a day (b/d) next year, on a par with Saudi Arabia
  • Iraqi oil exports, stricken by the war and its aftermath, are also set to increase.
  • Libya could be another source of production: its exports have collapsed to only a few hundred thousand barrels a day, against 1.6m in June last year.
  • OPEC’s best hope is continued American protectionism. Any easing of the restrictions on the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) or crude will exert more downward pressure on the oil price.
  • But that would cede market share to their hated rivals, Iran and Iraq.
  • America’s domestic production of crude (and gas, which displaces some oil) is rocketing.
  • wmulnea on 05 Feb 15
     
    This article briefly addresses the current global petroleum market, outlining the top national producers and their current import/export strategies. The article is a good overview of the global politcs affecting oil prices.
alarsso

Understanding Syria: From Pre-Civil War to Post-Assad - The Atlantic - 0 views

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syria understanding history causes war revolution transition

shared by alarsso on 08 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • xtreme temperatures
  • drought from 2006 to 2011
  • 2001 to 2010, Syria had 60 “significant” dust storms.
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  • lessening of rainfall
  • as of the last year before the civil war, only about 13,500 square kilometers could be irrigated
  • agriculture
  • 20 percent of national income
  • employed about 17 percent
  • Syria’s oil is of poor quality, sour, and expensive to refine
  • densely populated
  • less than 0.25 hectares (just over a third of an acre) of agricultural land per person
  • population/resource ratio is out of balance.
  • So it is important to understand how their “social contract”—their view of their relationship with one another and with the government—evolved and then shattered.
  • threw the country into the arms of
  • Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • or three and a half years
  • part of the United Arab Republic
  • A fundamental problem they faced was what it meant to be a Syrian.
  • 1961 Syrians were thrown back on their own resources
  • The majority of those who became Syrians were Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslims
  • seven and eight in 10 Syrians saw themselves as Muslim Arab
  • being a Muslim Arab as the very definition of Syrian identity.
  • Nationalists took this diversity as a primary cause of weakness and adopted as their primary task integrating the population into a single political and social structure.
  • Israel
  • Looming over Syrian politics and heightening the tensions
  • A ceasefire, negotiated in 1974, has held, but today the two states are still legally at war.
  • or Hafez al-Assad, the secular, nationalist Baath Party was a natural choice: it offered, or seemed to offer, the means to overcome his origins in a minority community and to point toward a solution to the disunity of Syrian politics
  • bridge the gaps between rich and poor
  • socialism
  • Muslims and minorities
  • Islam
  • society
  • hould be modern
  • secular
  • defined by a culture of “Arabism”
  • the very antithesis of
  • Muslim Brotherhood
  • military, which seemed
  • o embody the nation.
  • help the Syrian people to live better provided only that they not challenge his rule
  • his stern and often-brutal monopoly of power
  • foreign troublemakers
  • Hafez al-Assad sided with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war
  • During the rule of the two Assads, Syria made considerable progress.
  • locked into the cities and towns
  • they f
  • had to compete
  • Palestinians
  • Iraqis
  • Syria was already a refuge
  • March 15, 2011
  • small group gathered in the southwestern town of Daraa to protest against government failure to help them
  • government saw them as subversives.
  • He ordered a crackdown
  • And the army,
  • responded violently.
  • Riots broke out
  • attempted to quell them with military
  • what had begun as a food and water issue gradually turned into a political and religious cause.
  • interpretation of Islam
  • the Syrian government is charged with using illegal chemical weapons
  • All observers agree that the foreign-controlled and foreign-constituted insurgent groups are the most coherent, organized, and effective
  • astonishing as they share no common language and come from a wide variety of cultures
  • slam has at least so far failed to provide an effective unifying force
  • all the rebels regard the conflict in Syria as fundamentally a religious issue
  • pwards of $150 billion
  • a whole generation of Syrians have been subjected to either or both the loss of their homes and their trust in fellow human beings.
  • How the victims and the perpetrators can be returned to a “normal life”
  • First, the war might continue.
  • Second, if the Syrian government continues or even prevails, there is no assurance that,
  • t will be able to suppress the insurgency.
  • Third,
  • Syria will remain effectively “balkanized”
  • alarsso on 08 Feb 15
     
    This article captures Syria's geography, history, and all events leading up to the state Syria is in today.
mharcour

BBC's History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - 0 views

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict Israel Palestine

shared by mharcour on 08 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • mharcour on 08 Feb 15
     
    This is a timeline of events that traces the conflict between Israel and Palestine from ancient times through the 2000's.
jordanbrown16

ISIS NuclearIran - 0 views

www.isisnucleariran.org

ISIS Iran nuclear program NucealIran uranium

shared by jordanbrown16 on 16 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • jordanbrown16 on 16 Feb 15
     
    This website shares with us information about Iran's nuclear program. Here you will find daily updates, regarding "assessments of this program, to ongoing diplomatic activity aimed at halting its uranium enrichment activity."
fcastro2

Syrian Christians fleeing ISIS find shelter in Turkey - World - CBC News - 0 views

www.cbc.ca/...nd-shelter-in-turkey-1.3020582

turkey christians ISIS syria politics refugees

shared by fcastro2 on 06 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • At any given time, there are about 70 refugees who have fled the war in Syria. They share the bunk beds inside, six to a room.
  • They are among the two million people Turkey has taken i
  • Many are housed in state-of-the-art refugee camps throughout the country, but those who have connections and more money choose to come to Istanbul in hopes of easier communication with foreign embassies, faster passage to what they hope will be a more comfortable life in Europe
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  •  The war has split and scattered all of their families around the world. Bekandy's father is still back in Syria, her fiancé and mother are in London.
  • He hopes his good deeds might somehow help reunite him with his family, which is now split into three parts, spread across Europe.
  • His wife and six-year-old son are on the line from Athens. Their eldest daughter — just 15 — is in Germany.
  • Lezieh says ISIS drew that X on his house in Aleppo, marking it to show his was a Christian home. He says militants tried to recruit him, threatened to kidnap his children and bombed his new business
  • Now Lezieh gets by with donations from parishioners and hopes to see his family all in one place soon. He tries to smile through the tears. He has to. His daughter is calling.
  • fcastro2 on 06 Apr 15
     
    Syrian Christians struggling in Turkey and other European countries. ISIS has not made it easy for them to live in Syria which is why they must flee the country. 
petergrossmanseu

Heat-Seeking Missiles in Syria: The SA-7 in Action with Rebels - The New York Times - 0 views

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new york times missiles syria

shared by petergrossmanseu on 27 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • petergrossmanseu on 27 Jan 16
     
    New York Times article with youtube videos of rebel fighters using Russian SA-7s to shoot down fixed and rotary wing aircraft
micklethwait

Diigo Web Highlighter and Bookmark for Chrome | Diigo - 0 views

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diigo chrome extension social bookmarking CULF 3331

shared by micklethwait on 28 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Share to Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Email.
    • micklethwait
      micklethwait on 28 Jan 16
       
      Really, get this plug-in. It will make this assignment so much easier for you.
  • micklethwait on 28 Jan 16
     
    This link will take you to a page from which you can add a Chrome extension to make social bookmarking easier. You can search for other add-ons and plug-ins for different browsers.
malshamm

Russian, Israeli jets share Syrian skies ... for now - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Mid... - 0 views

www.al-monitor.com/...r-putin-syria-fire-border.html

syria war

shared by malshamm on 03 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • malshamm on 03 Feb 16
     
    Israel and Russia are in the same page and they helping each other to keep Assad on the chair. Cooperation between Israel and Russia shock Arabs and was not expected.
blantonjack

How serious is the ISIL threat in Libya? - 1 views

www.aljazeera.com/...eat-libya-160222081244640.html

ISIS Libya war Al Qaeda

shared by blantonjack on 24 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • blantonjack on 24 Feb 16
     
    The recent US air strike on a building in the western Libyan city of Sabrata, which killed more than 40 suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, highlights the growing expansion and danger of the group in Libya. Both ISIL and Gaddafi loyalists share the belief that the new political leaders in Libya are "agents of the West" brought to power by NATO. Sirte has become the first stronghold that ISIL totally controls outside of Iraq and Syria, and it is reportedly home to the group's strongest presence within Libya. For the Western powers to combat this, means many military airstrikes as well as working with Libyan forces to provide intelligence of the whereabouts of the ISIL powers
csherro2

UNHCR Syria Regional Refugee Response - 0 views

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ISIS war revolution iraq

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  • csherro2 on 24 Feb 16
     
    Inter-agency Information Sharing Portal
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