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Ed Webb

Arab Leaders Keep a Wary Eye on Tunisia - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In Egypt, where the leadership continues to rely on a decades-old emergency law that allows arrest without charge, there is a lot of room for free and critical speech, offering a safety valve for expression that did not exist in Tunisia, he said.
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Tunisians Loot Lavish Homes Of Former Ruling Clan | Minnesota Public Radio News - 0 views

  • Ben Ali and his extended family stole about $20 billion -- twice Tunisia's national budget.
Ed Webb

Tunisia: Booting up a Development Model or Back to the Future? | The Middle East Channel - 0 views

  • the task of building a new political order that can provide democracy and development is, if anything, even more challenging than it was for the immediate post-colonial political elites
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    I'm hoping for democratic socialism/social democracy, myself. Enough with the neo-liberalism.
Ed Webb

Brian Whitaker's blog, January 2011 - 1 views

  • without extreme vigilance on the part of the Tunisian public, the country might find itself, a few months from now, with another RCD president and a parliament still dominated by Ben Ali's party. Tunisians are going to have to remain very watchful, and keep up the pressure for change.
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