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Street protests should concentrate on getting from Milosevic fair conditions for elections and acceptance of international monitoring (but, needless to say, not from NATO countries).
Elsewhere, as in Egypt, democratization incites further protests, or even violence.
Riots and protests are erupting around the world.
Unable to reform their labor markets because of the fear of street protests, French governments of all political stripes seek to protect their ailing firms, only to face limits imposed by the rules of the Common Market.
Down with the Czar PutinSAN FRANCISCO – The protests that rippled across Russia ahead of Vladimir Putin’s fourth inauguration as president followed a familiar script.
But one element of the recent protests came from a much older show.
With the recent protests’ rallying cry, Navalny – Putin’s unbending opponent, who continues to demand truth from his government, even as its agents drag him toward yet another jail cell – called Putin’s imperial bluff.
Consider the failure of the Kremlin’s attempt to block Telegram, Russia’s leading instant messaging service: far from quashing dissent, that effort has fueled support for the recent protests.
The recent protests may seem insignificant compared to the scale of Putin’s repressive resources and the spectacle of his inauguration.
The future of the Arab Middle East will be decided in the fight between Syria’s Sunni insurgents, supported throughout the region by the Saudi Wahhabis – the patrons of religious fundamentalism – and its secular Baath regime; between the fundamentalist Hamas and the secular PLO in Palestine; and between Egypt’s young secular opposition, forged in the protests of Tahrir Square, and the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafists.
British voters line up behind the truck drivers when protests are launched against hikes in the price of petrol, not least through the introduction of higher energy taxes.
Even Iran, where the Revolutionary Guards control roughly one-third of the economy, was affected when the result of the presidential election in 2009 triggered large anti-government protests in Tehran and other major cities.
When the Arab Spring erupted in Tunisia and Egypt in January 2011, protests erupted in Syria as well.
The protests became a military rebellion when parts of the Syrian army broke with the regime and established the Free Syrian Army.
Social unrest, on the other hand, has already erupted, with violent protests by students and radical trade-union factions fueling alarm – as have threats and aggression against officials of both trade unions and employers’ associations.
There were no major, unfortunate incidents; the constant protests were strident but not especially violent or well-attended; no significant slights or mishaps took place; and President Bush achieved what he probably was most interested in: sending a message back to the United States that he actually is interested in more than Iraq.
Meanwhile, protests opposing free-trade deals are drawing political support and crowds in Germany, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere.
China, for example, blocked media coverage of the Egyptian protests.
Leung became China’s man in Hong Kong, responsible for doing the Chinese government’s bidding – including taking an uncompromising position against pro-democracy protests by students and intellectuals.
The Instability of InequalityNEW YORK – This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London;Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squeeze on living standards; protesting Chilean students; the destruction in Germany of the expensive cars of “fat cats”;India’s movement against corruption; mounting unhappiness with corruption and inequality in China; and now the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York and across the United States.
While these protests have no unified theme, they express in different ways the serious concerns of the world’s working and middle classes about their prospects in the face of the growing concentration of power among economic, financial, and political elites.
Unless the relative economic roles of the market and the state are rebalanced, the protests of 2011 will become more severe, with social and political instability eventually harming long-term economic growth and welfare.
But there are still protests against the TTIP – and, to a lesser extent, against the EU’s recent trade deal with Canada – because some object to “new” deals that supposedly subordinate local standards and regulations to those of trading partners.
The leader who spurred these protests is Gurmeet Singh, one of the more prominent of several “godmen,” or self-proclaimed spiritual leaders, who flourish across India.
Making matters worse, economic growth across the EU appears to be slowing – and that was even before the eruption of mass protests in France and Italy’s confrontation with the EU over its proposed budget.
Likewise, a standoff between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea led to protests in Manila.
Hama was known for its Sunni population and anti-Assad sentiment, which frequently boiled over into violent protests and even more violent government crackdowns.
Most of these protests stem from acts by local officials that were already clearly illegal under existing Chinese law.
Because people cannot get justice through the courts, unrest has skyrocketed nationwide in recent years: official statistics record more than 200 protests a day, four times the number a decade ago.
Wen Jiabao, China’s Premier, acknowledged last year that protests in the countryside were caused by “some localities [that] are unlawfully occupying farmers’ land” and promised “effective legal services and legal aid so as to provide effective help to people who have difficulty filing lawsuits.”
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