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    Many little streams make a mighty river – the 1 per cent solidarity levy
    August 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto

    How an innovative financial scheme could help to finance international public-public water projects in the global south.

    Mubarak behind bars: Human rights and justice
    August 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    Human rights standards may not be met in this trial, but the more essential purpose is to prove there's no going back to the days prior to the Tahrir revolution.

    We want our money back
    July 2011
    David Sogge

    Angry citizens want their nations’ money back and rightfully so. Banks should be curbed instead of allowed to enthusiastically facilitate the illicit outflow of money by dictators.

    Understanding the Arab Spring
    June 2011
    Kamil Mahdi
    Phyllis Bennis
    Ben Hayes
     Salwa Ismail, Shaheer George, Mehdi Lalou, Yao Graham,

    Middle East scholars join TNI fellows in a unique and fascinating discussion of the context of the democracy uprisings in the Middle East and the way it may shape the region for future generations.

    Can Democracy Activists Undo US and IMF Damage?
    June 2011
    Patrick Bond

    Obama's speech on the Middle East and North Africa missed the point of the Arab uprising, and offered little sign of conciliation or support for the Palestinians.

    Is the Arab Spring a Black Swan?
    May 2011
    Richard Falk

    A recent comparison by top foreign policy thinkers in the US reveals the not so pro-democratic thinking that also goes on in Washington, referring to the emancipatory movements of the Arab Spring as a improbable "worst-case scenarios."

    Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US
    May 2011
    Tariq Ali

    Phase one of the Arab spring is over. Phase two – the attempt to crush or contain genuine popular movements – has begun.

    The “Arab 1848”: Reflections on US Policy & the Power of Nonviolence
    February 2011
    Tom Reifer

    The uprising in the Arab world shows, along with being a textbook example of nonviolence as a mechanism of democratic social change, the crude results of a US policy based on dictatorship promotion.

    Mubarak defiant
    February 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    After Egyptian President Mubarak defied the rising demand of millions of protesters and announced he will remain in office, the question is what happens next.

     

    The toxic residue of colonialism
    February 2011
    Richard Falk

    The overt age of grand empires gave way to the age of covert imperial hegemony, but now the edifice is crumbling.

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