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"After a time during which we used to offer catastrophic models of 'Lebanonization,' 'Somalization,' and 'Iraqization,' we now have a model that is worthy of respect to offer the world: 'Tunisification,' " Yasser abu-Hilalah wrote in Jordan's Al Ghad newspaper.

in a post-9/11 world, any non-state actor caught throwing a stone, be it the first stone or the thousandth, risks total warfare under the guise of counterinsurgency

Mass, sustained civil disobedience at the corporate headquarters of insurance 'providers' and banks and petrol companies remains a long way off. Instead, Koch-funded campaigns continue to succeed at electing Republican governors who then refuse federal money to build high-speed rail networks . (See Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and more to come. Special shoutout to New Jersey.) When Americans begin to thirst for health care, re-pedestrianised cities, and the return of usury laws with the same fervor that Egyptians have shown in clamouring for democracy and the rule of law, only then will we know the revolution is here.

The coming constitutional showdown between human law and divine law in the revolutionary Arab states may turn on the question of gay rights and sexual freedom generally

La Déclaration du G8 sur le « Partenariat de Deauville » affirme, certes, son soutien aux « aspirations des citoyens [arabes] pour l'égalité » mais elle maintient, en lien avec le FMI, le cadre libéral qui a pourtant déjà coûté cher aux populations des ces pays.

Land Center For Human Rights, partenaire  égyptien du CCFD-Terre Solidaire,

les pays du G8, s'ils veulent aider la révolution tunisienne, commencent  par aider ses enfants, qui au péril de leur vie ont immigré vers l'Italie et la France. Ils doivent leur accorder urgemment des papiers, ce qui permettra aux 100 000 membres des familles de ces migrants tunisiens de bénéficier de revenus nouveaux »,