Peter Kenyon, NPR, May 20, 2013 Iranians choose a new president next month, and one thing Iran's leaders are intent on avoiding is a repeat of the massive street protests that followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election in 2009. The sponso... […]
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Rebecca Vincent, Slate, May 20, 2013 On May 17, Azerbaijani youth activist Ilkin Rustemzade was arrested on charges of hooliganism for his alleged involvement in a Harlem Shake video filmed in the country’s capital city, Baku. The video is completely... […]
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Erica Chenoweth and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Journal of Peace Research, May 2013 The events of the Arab Spring of 2011 have made clear the importance and potential efficacy of nonviolent resistance, as well as the general inability to explain the... […]
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Felicity Clarke, Narco News, May 14, 2013 As one of the key figures in the Clamshell Alliance in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cushing was effective in organizing a movement that played a major role in freezing the construction of new nuclear power p... […]
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Aishath Velezinee, Minivan News, May 18, 2013 With less than four months to the elections it is undeniable to all observers on the ground in the Maldives, including the skeptics, the political opponents and the grudge bearers who form the majority oppo... […]
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