Democracy in Libya?

Picture taken from VRT

Libyan protests: overview map

Map by k_thos

This informative beauty was twittered by k_thos: an overview map of the rebellion going on in Libya.

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Click here for Tripolis prison map.







For more updates: http://twitpic.com/photos/k_thos

For a chronological overview of the protests, ordered by country: clickety.

Middle East protests: "Every uprising is different"

Taken from VRT, © Belga

This morning (Wednesday, 11th May 2011), the VRT published a very interesting article written by Wouter Carton, discussing the inconsistent attitudes of superpowers concerning the current uprisings in the Middle East. Here is a translation to English.

For a chronological overview of the protests, ordered by country: clickety.

Overview Middle East protests

Illustration by Carlos Latuff

"The power of dictatorships comes from the willing obedience of the people they govern - and that if the people can develop techniques of withholding their consent, a regime will crumble."
--The nonviolent revolution rulebook

The Jasmine Revolution (WP 1, WP 2; BBC Live and Arabisch protest in Dutch), an overview: