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Battling for Arab democracy
On the way to democracy, Lebanon and Iraq buckled up for
new rounds of political action. In the Lebanese case,
the country is forming a pre-election government.
Iraqis, however, are forming a post-election one. Full Story |
NEWS & REPORTS
HYD celebrates May Day
BEIRUT -
Labor union figure Adib Abou-Habib said that during their
dominance of Lebanon, the Syrians realized the influence of
the General Labor Confederation (GLC) on the nation’s
sociopolitical life and consequently worked to undermine it.
Democratic Left delegate
meets FPM leader in Paris
PARIS - A delegation from the Democratic
Leftist Movement (DLM) visited exiled former Army
Commander Michel Aoun, leader of the Free Patriotic
Movement (FPM).
Palestinian film
festival starts at GW
WASHINGTON DC -- The Students for Justice
in Palestine at the George Washington University in
Washington started a month-long film festival.
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EDITORIALS
The Babylon Tower situation
Ever since the Babylon Tower incident, when God
according to the Old Testament changed the tongues of humans
so that they won’t understand each other, and the different
peoples have been displaying an enormous inability to
understand each other.
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Op-Ed
What kind of change from
within does Washington want in Syria?
by Sobhi Hadid
Any person who has been following the history
of the relations between the White House and the governing
regime in Damascus during the past three decades since the
late Syrian president Hafez Assad launched the reformist
movement at end-1970 will not be surprised by the statement
released by Adam Ereli, deputy spokesman of the US State
Department.
A leftist group away from the
duality of the Communist Party and the Democratic Left
Movement
by Sahar Mandour (BEIRUT)
After February 14, Lebanon lived through a
moment which some considered to be independent while
others called that of "collaboration." That moment forced
the youth to choose between the "Revolution of the Cedars"
and "Ain Al-Tineh." Both were not a choice for a group of
Lebanese youth.
Reply to the opinion by Sahar
Mandour (in Arabic)
by Elias Shartouni (BEIRUT)
After the cabinet…Elections on
schedule
by Ghazi Aridi (BEIRUT)
At last, the Lebanese cabinet was born
after an international-regional-Lebanese compromise that
started in the Arab Saudi Kingdom which Ambassador Walid
al-Moallem visited as a delegate of the Syrian leadership.
The kingdom played a special role in calming matters down
through its contacts with the different Lebanese
leaderships. It is known that the opposition leader Walid
Jumblatt had visited the kingdom before the Syrian
withdrawal and had conveyed his sincerity (regarding this
withdrawal).
Civil peace is based on
security, freedom and development
by
Alain Aoun (BEIRUT)
It's not possible to talk about the danger
of a "civil war" in the future without tracing back the
reasons behind the Lebanese war which broke out on April
13, 1975 and was called, mistakenly and inaccurately: "The
Lebanese Civil War."
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FEATURES
Media have been creating new
realities, far from reporting the news
by Tarek Hashem (WASHINGTON DC)
Since the Gulf War in 1991, news stations of
the likes of CNN have flourished all over the world. Besides
the economical and business reasons of such a flourishing,
lies a political reason.
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HISTORY & CULTURE
Future of the Democratic Left in
Western industrial countries debated
This volume is a compilation of papers that
highlight the transformation of Western leftist parties from
romantic revolutionaries to pragmatic realists. This meant
that these parties shifted on the political spectrum from the
left to the left-center.
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Youth News
Social democracy should
prevail over individualism
Marx was a good sociologist, but a bad
economist who should have read Adam Smith more, according to a
German expert.
Georgetown’s Soc Dems elected,
disqualified
WASHINGTON DC -- Four student members of
Georgetown University’s social democratic group, the Soc
Dems, won their bid for student elections in mid April,
but were later disqualified and appealed before a
university commission.
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LIGHT NEWS
Film exposes East-West
interaction
by Rola Abdul Latif (VIRGINIA)
The difference in perspective on Middle Eastern
politics between Arabs and Americans came to the forefront in
the powerful independently produced documentary Control Room.
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