pantslessprogressive: Protesters gather near the Omari Mosque in the southern old city of Deraa in this picture taken with a mobile phone March 22, 2011. Hundreds of people marched in southern Syria for a fifth straight day on Tuesday, protesting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad and shouting “Freedom, freedom. Peaceful, peaceful.” [Photo: REUTERS] Syria, Bahrain, Ivory Coast, Yemen News Roundup: March 22. Syria: Five Syrian protesters ‘shot dead’ | AFP Syrian protests spread after troops kill at least five last week | Guardian Activist arrested on fifth day of protest | BBC Syria fires governor after 7 protesters killed | AP Fear barrier crumbles in Syrian “kingdom of silence” | Reuters Arab uprising infects ‘immune’ Syria | UPI The Arab awakening reaches Syria | The Economist Target of Deadly Protests In Syria Has US Investments | Forbes UN calls for Syria probe as hundreds protest | AJE U.S. calls for restraint in Syria | UPI Syria’s Revolt: How Graffiti Stirred an Uprising | TIME The End Of Hama Rules? | Sify Comment: Arab revolution is an unstoppable force | Guardian Comment: Syrians have broken the fear barrier | Guardian EU condemns ‘unacceptable’ repression in Syria | Middle East Online Syria security threatens channel over coverage | Al Arabiya Setting the country alight? | BBC Human Rights Watch: Authorities Should Halt Use of Excessive Force on Protesters Amnesty International: Independent Investigation Urged Into Syria Protest Deaths FACTBOX: Facts about Syria | Reuters January 31 Interview With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad | WSJ Bahrain: Human Rights Violations Mount in Bahrain | VOA Ex-airforce chief says no UAE planes in Libya due to Bahrain unrest | The National (government-owned) Bahrain bans Lebanon travel, sectarian tension rises | Reuters UN rights office hit by Bahrain e-mail ‘campaign’ | Sydney Morning Herald Why isn’t the world intervening in Bahrain as it did in Libya? | Dr. Kristin Diwan Is Bahrain Returning to Business as Usual? | CNBC With Crackdown, Bahrain Returns to Old Playbook | WSJ (sub. req.) Ivory Coast: UN warns of forgotten humanitarian crisis | BBC Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo threatens international media | AP Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo readying rockets, helicopter: UN Getting Out Alive | VOA Yemen: Yemen’s Leader Defiant Amid Protests and Defections, Offers To Leave Office Earlier | New York Times (h/t newsflick) Yemen’s president warns of civil war | AJE VIDEO: Jeremy Scahill: As Mass Uprising Threatens the Saleh Regime, a Look at the Covert U.S. War in Yemen | Democracy Now US fears Yemen instability could impact war on terror | GlobalPost Yemen turmoil poses fresh conundrum for Obama | Reuters Saleh’s political problems threaten hunt for U.S.-born radical cleric Aulaqi | Washington Post NBC Terrorism Analyst Roger Cressey Defends Yemen Dictatorship, Fails To Disclose Conflicts Of Interest | ThinkProgress Cornered in Yemen: President Saleh Smiles and Snarls | TIME Yemen: Who’s With The President? | The New Yorker (h/t thepoliticalnotebook) Human Rights News: Check out a roundup of Middle East/North Africa human rights news from caraobrien.
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Protesters gather near the Omari Mosque in the southern old city of Deraa in this picture taken with a mobile phone March 22, 2011. Hundreds of people marched in southern Syria for a fifth straight day on Tuesday, protesting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad and shouting “Freedom, freedom. Peaceful, peaceful.” [Photo: REUTERS]

Syria, Bahrain, Ivory Coast, Yemen News Roundup: March 22.

Syria:

Five Syrian protesters ‘shot dead’ | AFP

Syrian protests spread after troops kill at least five last week | Guardian

Activist arrested on fifth day of protest | BBC

Syria fires governor after 7 protesters killed | AP

Fear barrier crumbles in Syrian “kingdom of silence” | Reuters

Arab uprising infects ‘immune’ Syria | UPI

The Arab awakening reaches Syria | The Economist

Target of Deadly Protests In Syria Has US Investments | Forbes

UN calls for Syria probe as hundreds protest | AJE

U.S. calls for restraint in Syria | UPI

Syria’s Revolt: How Graffiti Stirred an Uprising | TIME

The End Of Hama Rules? | Sify

Comment: Arab revolution is an unstoppable force | Guardian

Comment: Syrians have broken the fear barrier | Guardian

EU condemns ‘unacceptable’ repression in Syria | Middle East Online

Syria security threatens channel over coverage | Al Arabiya

Setting the country alight? | BBC

Human Rights Watch: Authorities Should Halt Use of Excessive Force on Protesters

Amnesty International: Independent Investigation Urged Into Syria Protest Deaths

FACTBOX: Facts about Syria | Reuters

January 31 Interview With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad | WSJ

Bahrain:

Human Rights Violations Mount in Bahrain | VOA

Ex-airforce chief says no UAE planes in Libya due to Bahrain unrest | The National (government-owned)

Bahrain bans Lebanon travel, sectarian tension rises | Reuters

UN rights office hit by Bahrain e-mail ‘campaign’ | Sydney Morning Herald

Why isn’t the world intervening in Bahrain as it did in Libya? | Dr. Kristin Diwan

Is Bahrain Returning to Business as Usual? | CNBC

With Crackdown, Bahrain Returns to Old Playbook | WSJ (sub. req.)

Ivory Coast:

UN warns of forgotten humanitarian crisis | BBC

Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo threatens international media | AP

Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo readying rockets, helicopter: UN

Getting Out Alive | VOA

Yemen:

Yemen’s Leader Defiant Amid Protests and Defections, Offers To Leave Office Earlier | New York Times (h/t newsflick)

Yemen’s president warns of civil war | AJE

VIDEO: Jeremy Scahill: As Mass Uprising Threatens the Saleh Regime, a Look at the Covert U.S. War in Yemen | Democracy Now

US fears Yemen instability could impact war on terror | GlobalPost

Yemen turmoil poses fresh conundrum for Obama | Reuters

Saleh’s political problems threaten hunt for U.S.-born radical cleric Aulaqi | Washington Post

NBC Terrorism Analyst Roger Cressey Defends Yemen Dictatorship, Fails To Disclose Conflicts Of Interest | ThinkProgress

Cornered in Yemen: President Saleh Smiles and Snarls | TIME

Yemen: Who’s With The President? | The New Yorker (h/t thepoliticalnotebook)

Human Rights News:

Check out a roundup of Middle East/North Africa human rights news from caraobrien.

pantslessprogressive: Yemen. March 1. A new Day of Rage. An anti-government protester and other demonstrators demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. [Muhammed Muheisen / AP] Estimated death toll from protests: 27. Opposition to Yemeni regime spreading | UPI Thousands pour into the streets for Yemen’s ‘Day of Rage’ | AOL News “The people are fed up with dialogue.” - Yemeni teacher | NY Times Yemen leader blames protests on U.S. | AJE Government bans media coverage of anti-regime protests | Zawya Foreigners flee Aden as violence escalates | Yemen Times UN warns Yemen against violent repression | AFP
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Yemen. March 1. A new Day of Rage.

An anti-government protester and other demonstrators demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. [Muhammed Muheisen / AP]

Estimated death toll from protests: 27.

Opposition to Yemeni regime spreading | UPI

Thousands pour into the streets for Yemen’s ‘Day of Rage’ | AOL News

“The people are fed up with dialogue.” - Yemeni teacher | NY Times

Yemen leader blames protests on U.S. | AJE

Government bans media coverage of anti-regime protests | Zawya

Foreigners flee Aden as violence escalates | Yemen Times

UN warns Yemen against violent repression | AFP

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dancingonembers:

guerrillamamamedicine:

think4yourself:

Breaking:

Tens of thousands of people in Yemen have taken to the streets in the country’s capital, calling for an end to the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president. Inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, opposition members and youth activists are rallying at four different locations in Sanaa on Thursday, chanting for Saleh, who has been in power for 32 years, to step down.

Now Yemen?! - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

oh shit. 

I can’t actually watch this video from my computer, so I can’t transcribe it, but I trust it’s important and I’m signal-boosting for now.

Good intro to the situation in Yemen.

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Source: The Atlantic

dancingonembers:

guerrillamamamedicine:

think4yourself:

Breaking:

Tens of thousands of people in Yemen have taken to the streets in the country’s capital, calling for an end to the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president. Inspired by recent events in Tunisia and Egypt, opposition members and youth activists are rallying at four different locations in Sanaa on Thursday, chanting for Saleh, who has been in power for 32 years, to step down.

Now Yemen?! - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

oh shit. 

I can’t actually watch this video from my computer, so I can’t transcribe it, but I trust it’s important and I’m signal-boosting for now.

Good intro to the situation in Yemen.

(via magicalgirlserena)

Source: The Atlantic