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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/23-1

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In Libya and elsewhere, the state depends on submission

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

02/22/11

Today in Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, free individuals, having awoken to the proposition that state power depends on their submission, are disobeying the despotic orders of the political class. In the face of savage violence and the stark disregard of their pleas for freedom, people in these countries continue to gather together in audacious defiance of those who call themselves rulers...

http://c4ss.org/content/6239

Overdue end to the old world order

Spiked
by Mick Hume

02/23/11

The Arab uprisings shocked us all -- but perhaps the even bigger surprise is that these empty regimes have taken so long to crumble...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10223/

Tiptoeing to war with Libya

The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Daniel McCarthy

02/22/11

Aside from making Western interventionists feel better about themselves, the only use the symbolic measures proposed by Lynch have is to set a pretext for large-scale military invention, which Lynch insists he does not want. ('I don?t call for a direct military intervention.') Imposing no-fly zone is not symbolic, of course: it?s 'direct military intervention' pure and simple, an act of war. If a single NATO jet goes down, pressure to invade North Africa will be nigh irresistible. Interventionists of all stripes are fully aware of this...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/02/22/tiptoeing-to-war-with-libya/

Agnostics for pacifism

EconLog
by Bryan Caplan

02/23/11

By itself, I freely admit, extreme uncertainty is a double-edged sword. The consequences of war might be worse than you thought; they might be even better. But as I've argued in my common-sense case for pacifism, pacifists just need to add the weak moral premise that 'before you kill innocent people, you should be reasonably sure that your action will have very good consequences.' This plausible premise, combined with the uncertainty of foreign affairs, creates an almost insurmountable presumption against war...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/agnostics_for_p.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Algeria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bahrain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interventionist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=pacifism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Adam+Parsons
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rajesh+Makwana
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+D'Amato
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mick+Hume
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Daniel+McCarthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bryan+Caplan
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Starmail - 24. Feb, 07:58

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Dienstag, 22. Februar 2011

Demokratie- oder Hungerrevolten?

Es ist kein Zufall, dass das Aufbegehren von Tunesien bis in den Jemen mit Rekordpreisen für Nahrungsmittel einhergehen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/34/34232/1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices

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Starmail - 22. Feb, 06:11

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Montag, 21. Februar 2011

The Other Captive Nations

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/other-captive-nations171.html

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Nationalism, democracy, and the Arab awakening

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/21/11

The revolutionary wave sweeping through the Middle East promises to topple sclerotic Arab regimes throughout the region, but there is a marked difference between, say, Egypt and Iran -- and the difference is the nationalist factor...

http://tinyurl.com/6jbukjr

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/rockwell
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo

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Starmail - 21. Feb, 05:54

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Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011

Egypt and Tunisia: The first climate revolutions

'Bread and Freedom' said the insurgents? many posters in Cairo and Tunis. The hunger of millions of people and rising food prices were undoubtedly among the triggers of both revolutions. One of the main causes of hunger is climate change and the weather extremes that precede it, a fact which climatologists have been predicting for years.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811370ms248

A Global Open Space geared towards action

Just like last year?s World Social Forum held in Belem (Brazil), the Forum in Dakar took place under the impression of the deep crisis of neoliberal globalization. Whereas the economy has recovered for some time already in some regions of the world, it started to do so recently in others. But all that cannot hide the existence of deep social, economic and ecological problems. By Sven Giegold

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811371ms248

World food prices reach new historic peak

3.4 percent surge in January - FAO updates Food Price Index. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416811377ms248

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+change
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+price
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=neoliberal
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=globalization

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Starmail - 20. Feb, 05:55

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Freitag, 18. Februar 2011

Rising Food Prices Push Millions Into Poverty

Study Says

A sharp rise in food prices since June has pushed 44 million people in developing countries into extreme poverty - having to live on less than $1.25 a day - according to a new study by the World Bank.

http://nyti.ms/gQg7jk

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+price
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poverty
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Starmail - 18. Feb, 05:55

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