The Media’s Wildly Different Take on Unrest in Tunisia and Iran

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.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Protesters face riot police during a demonstration in Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 12, 2018. Tunisia's government says protests over food prices led to days of clashes with police that left one dead, dozens injured and widespread damage. (AP/Hassene Dridi)

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 and motivated primarily by economics -- not politics, as many popular news outlets had claimed. Not surprisingly, these same

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Tunisian Prime Minister Says Drug Law ‘No Longer In Tune With The Times’

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.

Global Post
By Global Post

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 young men to police

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The US’s Invasion Of Africa That Nobody Knows About

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.

John Glaser | AntiWar
By John Glaser | AntiWar
Enduring Freedom

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

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Obama: US To Provide Loan Guarantees For Tunisia

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.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Jomaa

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

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Post-Revolutionary Tunisia’s ‘Don’t Hit Me’ Campaign Condemns Police Brutality

A campaign to repair relations with police has citizens and public figures playing soccer matches alongside policemen.

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels

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 stages of its democratic

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