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The Ultimate Weapon
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.
Dear GCC: Yemen Can’t Trust Saleh
He’s ruled for 32 years. What’s another month? Millions of Yemenis will answer that…
Syrian-Americans Protest
The Syrian diaspora mobilizes to press for badly needed reforms, starting with ending the al-Asad regime’s rule by fear. One organizer, Mhyar al-Zayat, is leading protests in Washington, DC.
The Brutality of Bahrain
While democracy campaigners have faced vicious crackdowns across the Arab world this year, none have been so thoroughly crushed as the peaceful protesters in Bahrain.
You Should be Proud of Yemen
This is supposed to be Saleh’s city. This is supposed to be his heartland, his base, his stronghold. We marched right through it.
Protest Camp in Sana’a
Sana’a's Change Square at night — powerful images of a protest camp.
The Syrian Regime’s Savagery
A free Syria is a strong Syria. The regime is foolish and criminal to crush dissent. The protesters are Syria’s best hope for the future.
The Fifteen Lies of Arab Dictators
With Gaddafi on the ropes, and Ben Ali and Mubarak relegated to the history books, we are getting a better sense of the delusions that Arab dictators propagate to justify their authoritarian powers.
Lessons from Scarface: How to stop a psychopath
Remember the closing scene in Scarface? After killing his best friend, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) retreats back to his gratuitously gaudy mansion and desperately shoves his face into a mountain of cocaine. He watches in utter disbelief while his little sister is killed before his eyes by one of his enemy’s armed henchmen. And while Montana clearly knows that his own death is imminent – most of his friends have either defected or been killed, and the ones that remain will only be able to protect him for so long – Montana still refuses to accept his mortality. Picking up his fully-equipped M16 assault rifle, Montana boldly confronts dozens of Latin American assassins. Frenzied, stoned, and totally delusional, Tony Montana turns his foyer into a pool of blood, until he is finally killed by a single shotgun shot to the back.
“…everything will burn.”
If you’re like me, then you sat in horror yesterday while trying to make sense of Muammar Gaddafi’s incoherent ramblings. If there were any doubts as to how crazy, delusional, and psychopathic Gaddafi is, they have been put to rest; Gaddafi is truly the quintessential maniac. During his pre-recorded diatribe, he ordered his supporters to charge the streets and “capture the rats.” Like his son Seif al-Islam did previously, Gaddafi claimed that anti-government protesters were “drugged” religious extremists and al-Qaida agents. At one point, Gaddafi said that he has no problem “cleansing Libya house by house” until protesters have been stopped. Referring to himself in the third person several times (who does that?) Gaddafi vowed to “die as a martyr at the end.”
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