A trip to Tunis to save democracy

Not that bombers Djema el Fna succeed in their efforts to undermine the arrival of tourists in Morocco. So far in these first months of 2011 Morocco was the very nation that has best withstood the drop in tourists in the Arab and North African countries in general. And after the attack there was no escape for tourists, a sign that maybe it will be interpreted for what it is: a very serious incident but is not able to repeat frequently.

Maghreb, Tunisia and Egypt after the revolt is rising in Algeria

If the Syrian opposition today to try to give the final push to the Assad regime, even the government of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika appears to navigate increasingly turbulent waters. Faced with ongoing demonstrations by students and government workers returned to announce democratic reforms. But it might not be enough opposition to civil and does not want to settle for a few small concessions.

Obama, Bin Laden and the barbarity of the XXI century

Many things are unclear, and will remain so for a long time, U.S. special forces in the attack which led to the liquidation of the grand old man of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, Osama Bin Laden. Neither is sure that Bin Laden was actually made out and we believe "trust" to the statements of Obama, who, in obvious crisis of consensus for the management of disappointing economic and financial crisis and the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Libya has played the card of the abolition of the hated enemy, along with the equipment, such as the CIA and others, which appears more and more clearly subordinate.

Libya to stop the massacre

Predictably, the big worry interventionist in Libya is likely to result in a stalemate. There are those who accuse the cowardice of the West, but there is probably something below. And that is the unwillingness to support the rebels, despite the peculiar characteristics of the situation in Libya, were placed on the same wavelength of Tunisian and Egyptian revolutionaries.

It is no coincidence that, in this very hour, Hamas in Gaza is repressing the Palestinian students applying for national unity among the various factions, while in Bahrain, Saudi troops firing on demonstrators in the total silence of the Arab world and the international community. We are the epilogue of the Arab revolution? Hard to say ...

Libya, there is still time to act

Gaddafi massacred the people of Libya and the West talk. Qaddafi is bringing the whole country under his monstrous dictatorship mainly due to total control of airspace, as was observed by all observers. It would be enough to bomb airports in the bloodthirsty dictator serves as their base. French President Sarkozy has tossed a sentence, to give the news of opening the news, but was careful not to get serious.

The bread riots

There are those who had long foreseen what is happening today on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, the Bosnian writer Predrag Matvejevic, author of the Mediterranean. A new breviary and the recent Our Bread, both published by Garzanti. We met him for the readers of ilfattoquotidiano. com. "It 's been a failure - it hopes - even dozens of meetings with politicians and heads of state, then lectures, debates, in vain, I tried to warn, to understand how Europe' s own birth without his 'crib' Mediterranean.

The shortsightedness of imbeciles

When the government of corrupt and prostituted and launched the infamous Nazi-fascist decree "safety" and insulted before the Bossi-Fini law, we have not tried too much to expect that two bombs had exploded in his hand that would be deadly to those who had produced . When, as a cherry on the cake, Berlusconi decided to do the bedside of a deal with Gaddafi at the expense of human rights of the poor masses who were dismissed by military vessels or abandoned to certain death in the Libyan desert, we expect that we could not stop the bursting of a dam with the finger of ignorance humanitarian and political myopia.

Tunisian Lessons

I was in Tunisia about ten days ago, as a representative of Democratic Lawyers in a delegation of the euro Mediterranean Network of Human Rights. I saw an entire nation that was recovering democracy. One of the jokes that circulated was: "Until yesterday, the Tunisians spent half their day to talk about Tunisian football and half to discuss Italian football.

Now go all the way to discuss politics. " In fact, everywhere you could see small crowds, deep in discussion, made up of young and old, military and civilians, women and men. A similar phenomenon is happening now in Egypt and elsewhere may soon happen, on the shores of the Mediterranean.

"The revolution will expand to other countries of Tunisia in North Africa"

"We hope to bring this revolution beyond the borders of Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt over the Maghreb, against dictatorships and democracy." Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and dissident, is convinced that the 'bread riots' that filled the streets of his country from December 17 last year and took down the regime of Ben Ali was only the first spark of a wider rebellion in Arab world.

Born in Tunis in 1950, is Bensedrine human rights activist and editor of Kalima, online newspaper censored in Tunisia. What is the situation on the streets of Tunis? After months of struggle, the people have organized and young people were mobilized to control the territory against the armed remnants of the old dictatorship.

Bread riots in Tunisia, 20 dead

E 'revolt across the Maghreb. It aggravates the death toll from clashes broke out against the economic crisis and unemployment. In Tunisia, between Saturday and Sunday twenty demonstrators were killed in two cities, Tala and Kasserine, in clashes with security forces. Many of the wounded. According to a witness to the victims of Tala - between 17 and 30 years - were killed by the police who opened fire on demonstrators in the city center.