Friday, May 27, 2011

Dictatorships in the Arab world

This Aljazeera English documentary, "The Arab Awakening - Absolute Power" posted 06/26/2011, is primarily an analysis of how the Arab dictatorships currently being challenge by the democratic movements there have operated. It prominently features the Independent's Robert Fisk, who is very knowledgeable on that topic and is very familiar with the politics of the Arab world.



Fisk wrote recently in the Independent on this topic in Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? 05/14/2011. The tyrants in question int hat piece being the rulers of Bahrain.

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