It didn't take Egypt very long to revert back to a military oligarchy with elections. That oligarchy wasn't brought back by an armed coup in the dead of night, but by popular protests.
The Arab Spring was trumpeted by liberals as a new era in the history of the Middle East. But the Middle East is better at undoing history than the media is at writing it.
In Egypt, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi brushed away the effects of the Arab Spring. Now in Libya, General Khalifa Hifter is set to undo Obama's military intervention which put the Muslim Brotherhood on the road to taking over Libya, as they had taken over Egypt.
...Hifter, who has spent a long time living in the United States, claims to have American support, but his real support probably comes from the east.
#4
...maybe. Scroll down to read about McConnell. The non-opposition party can still grasp defeat from the jaws of victory by simply being the Me-Too Party. I guess it may be a race to see who can do the greatest disincentives in keeping their base home.
[DAWN] "Twitter Institutes Country Withheld Content Tool in Pakistain for the First Time," read the headline of a post published on the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse website on May 18, 2014. In it were details of five requests made to Twitter by the Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA), seeking to restrict `blasphemous' and`unethical' tweets and user accounts, which Twitter complied with.
The requests made by the PTA named specific accounts and links to tweets that it wanted 'withheld' from Pakistain. The first request was made on May 5, 2014, and the most recent on May 14, 2014. The 'law' cited in all the requests, was the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC). However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... which PPC provision/clause was applicable in each case, was not specified. While it's not difficult to guess what provision was used to justify blasphemous content, what acceptable legal definition PTA used for 'unethical' content that was accepted by Twitter is quite unclear.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] "Twitter Institutes Country Withheld Content Tool in Pakistain for the First Time," read the headline of a post published on the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse website on May 18, 2014. In it were details of five requests made to Twitter by the Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA), seeking to restrict `blasphemous' and`unethical' tweets and user accounts, which Twitter complied with.
