The Arab Uprisings and Europe’s Energy Future
The democratic revolutions raging through Europe’s backyard once again raise the question of our addiction to oil and our pandering to the region’s resource-rich dictators.
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LSE Director Quits over Gaddafi Ties
After 11 days of one reputation-wrecking embarrassment after another, the embattled director of the Libyan London School of Economics, Sir Howard Davies, has finally stepped down over his emphatic toadying to the Gaddafi regime.
The Revolution Spreads: Video from Liberated Misurata
As Gaddafi’s reign begins to to crumble, this amazing amateur footage relays the sense of ecstasy in liberated Misurata, Libya’s third largest city (210km east of Tripoli).
“I Shit On All the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet”
With Gaddafi refusing to step down and vowing to fight his ‘revolution’ to the bitter end, it might be useful to revisit the genuinely revolutionary writings of Subcomandante Marcos. “The word, together with love and dignity, is what makes us human beings.”
Gaddafi and the LSE: On the Wrong Side of History Once Again
The LSE’s cozy relationship with the Gaddafi regime is but one instance of a much larger problem: the systematic failure of Western liberals to practice what they preach. Whence this bizarre hypocrisy?
The Great Liberal Betrayal
The popular uprising in Egypt has once more laid bare the blatant hypocrisy of those Westerners who preach the gospel of freedom and democracy.
Walk like an Egyptian, Roar like a Lion
From fear to defiance, from violence to festivities: in an unprecedented display of bravery, the people of Egypt rose like lions to change the fate of their nation.
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