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Blog Entries by Mahmood Delkhasteh from 02/2011

No More Politics of Fear: Why Iranian Neocons Want Egyptians to Believe Revolution Is Wrong

| Posted 02.03.2011 | World
Read More: World News

It is time to stop arguing that people need to support corrupt despots, or despotic political and social structures, in order to prevent fundamentalist forces from taking over. This politics of fear does not work anymore.

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Humiliation: The Catalyst for Arabs' Revolutions

| Posted 02.18.2011 | World
Read More: Egypt, Iran, Islam, Middle East, World News

Like in Iran, humiliation also plays a catalyzing role in the unravelling of revolution. Since their independence, people in the Arab countries have been constantly humiliated, not least of all by their own despots.

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Clash of Civilizations Discredited

| Posted 02.26.2011 | Politics
Read More: Samuel Huntington, Islam, Luther King, Tunisia, Egypt, Jacques Rancière, Orientalist, Fukuyam, Banisadr, Fukuyama, Clash of Civilizations, Mussadegh, Politics News

The bloody fault lines of conflict today are mapped out not between democratic and undemocratic civilizations, but between global forces of antidemocratic power and human struggles for freedom in every culture.

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