Although the killing of Jamal Khashoggi was a driving factor behind the protests, many demonstrators lambasted MBS for his monarchy’s nearly four-year brutal war against the Republic of Yemen, a campaign known to have been planned and championed by the crown prince himself.
By all accounts, the protests in Tunisia are everything that the U.S. political establishment had wished the protests in Iran would become. Yet, the media silence regarding the protests in Tunisia has been deafening.
TUNIS, TUNISIA -- As the new year began, social media and corporate-owned news organizations alike were giving the protests in Iran constant coverage, despite the fact that the protests were relatively small in size
This summer, the government plans to revamp the law, which some say has been used to support police brutality, as prisons reach over 150 percent capacity.
TUNIS, Tunisia — In late 2011, Hesham a 24-year-old Tunisian cab driver, was sitting in a café with friends in Ariana, a working class neighborhood in northern Tunis. A fight broke out over something petty — the details of which Hesham said he can’t even remember — and the police came to break up the brawl. They hauled all the
The Obama administration has been slowly – and very quietly – peppering the U.S. military throughout the continent and putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of government contractors to build the necessary infrastructure for a permanent U.S. military presence.
The U.S. is assembling the rudiments of imperial infrastructure throughout Africa, and hardly anybody knows about it. Hardly anybody knows about it because the government and military refuse to divulge much of U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. You see, U.S. foreign policy is really none of our business. The Obama administration has been slowly
The assistance will be in the form of a U.S. loan guarantee that will make it easier for Tunisia to borrow money, and is the second loan guarantee it has provided.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is providing $500 million in new assistance to Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring movement, to help the North African nation revive its faltering economy as it continues its march toward democracy and financial and political stability after a period of unrest. President Barack Obama announced the aid
Mohamed Brahmi, a secular opposition politician, was buried Saturday in a funeral procession numbering in the tens of thousands.
Mohamed Brahmi, a secular opposition politician, was buried Saturday in a funeral procession numbering in the tens of thousands. The procession marchers chanted slogans against the current Islamist government, calling for it to be toppled. Security
A campaign to repair relations with police has citizens and public figures playing soccer matches alongside policemen.
When Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in a dramatic protest against police harassment in 2010, few would have predicted that his actions would ignite a massive pro-democracy uprising across the Middle East, now known as the Arab Spring.
Three years later, Tunisia remains in the nascent
