Places for information & comment
Looking for information on Syria yesterday I found this Us-hosted website:
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The Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies (SCPSS) is an independent nongovernmental studies center. SCPSS mission is to educate readers and activists about the Syrian Arab Republic from political, economic, social and strategic perspectives.
Link:http://www.scpss.org/index.php?pid=1
Another blogsite is:http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/
Some good opinion pieces from RSUi...
A Mandela needed in Syria or Try Dialogue
Hat tip to the Oxford Research Group (ORG) for the pointer to Jonathan Steele's report after a visit to Syria; first ORG's summary:http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.u...nswer_dialogue
Steele's reporting:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ed-own-mandela and:http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n06/jonathan-steele/diary
Syria’s online army is simply playing into Assad’s hands
An interesting article IMHO, curious to see the references to the FLN in Algeria; this could appear in the thread on Media & UW.
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So does Syria’s uprising need more technologically savvy multimedia activists? Or – to be blunt – does it require more people inside the country blowing things up? In the end, which poses the greater threat to a repressive regime: its atrocities being instantly relayed across the world on Twitter, or a well-armed, tightly organised insurgency?
The 13 months of Syria’s revolt have starkly illustrated the limits of social media as an engine of revolution, and of the claims made for the internet’s transformative power.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ads-hands.html