According to the United Nations, the extremely unpopular Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the international organization’s representatives (including Secretary General Ban Ki-moon) that the Syrian government has ceased all of its violent military operations against thousands of Syrians. Despite the exertion of incredible international pressure on the Syrian...

In this winter of worldwide discontent, a powerful moral and political spirit has arisen in the Middle East. There are already uprisings of ordinary people all over the world: nobodies dumping Somebodies off their thrones, as the world watches.  It’s happening so fast our heads are spinning.  But it’s clear that we will turn that moral spirit loose here at home:...

A Brief Summary… Coined originally by Tunisian journalist Zied el Hani as another name for the Tunisian revolution that ousted the government, the ’Jasmine Revolution’ is now a term for other anti-government movements aided by the Internet many are endangering their own lives for that have sprung up in other countries (typically authoritarian or...