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NEWS ABOUT: revolution

revolution stories: 12 news summaries

Bomb Hits Athens
Stock Exchange


Sep 2, 09 3:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb blast outside the Athens stock exchange damaged the building and injured a female pedestrian, the BBC reports. A second bomb detonated outside a government building in Thessaloniki, causing minor damage and no injuries. The blasts are suspected of being the work of Greek extremist group Revolutionary Struggle.... More »

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terrorism • revolution • car bomb • Greece • stock exchange • Athens • bomb explosion • Revolutionary Struggle

book review

 This Bitch of a Life 
 Offers Frank View of Fela Kuti 

Biography pulls no punches in describing this powerful musician

Aug 24, 09 7:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Carlos Moore’s Fela: This Bitch of a Life, a newly re-released 1982 authorized biography, contains the usual makings of sociomusical hagiography: Fela’s stunning music, his uncompromising anticolonial message, and the many beatings and imprisonments he suffered as a result. But most readers likely already know the legend—what... More »

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music • Africa • Nigeria • revolution • musician • activist • Bob Marley • imprisonment • Fela Kuti

OPINION

 'He-Cession' Is  
 Death Knell for 
 Male Dominance 

Recession has sped end of 'era of male dominance'

Jun 29, 09 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Macho men caused this recession, and they’re going to pay the price: for the first time in history, they’ll cease to be the dominant force in society, writes Reihan Salam in Foreign Policy. Signs of the turning tide can already be seen in the US, as male-dominated industries... More »

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women • men • culture • recession • revolution • male • alpha male • dominance • women's issues

OPINION

 You Want a 
 Revolution? 
 There's a Cost 

To get real change, people will have to vote with bodies, not ballots

Jun 21, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - When revolution came to Iran in 1979, it took thousands of people taking to the streets to finally break down the shah's authority. Now the revolutionary government has all that power and oil money, and the only way to elect a leader it doesn't approve of is with bodies, not... More »

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Iran • protests • revolution • mullahs • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Revolutionary Court of Iran

 10 Protests That 
 Changed History 

Iran's post-election storm has these precedents

Jun 19, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The post-election storm brewing in Iran prompted LiveScience to round up some of history's most significant protests:
  • A piece of paper nailed to a church door in 1517 sparked the Protestant Revolution.
  • Parisians moved more boldly, beheading the Bastille's governor to spark the French Revolution in 1789.
... More »

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Iran • Tiananmen Square • protests • revolution • Martin Luther King Jr. • political demonstrations • Mahatma Gandhi • Protestant Revolution • French Revolution • Boston Tea Party • American Revolution • Salt March • March on Washington

OPINION

Obama's Wrong:
He Must Take Sides in Iran

He's deserting the brave revolutionaries:
Krauthammer

Jun 19, 09 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Electoral fraud fueled the protests in Iran, but now there is a full-fledged revolution brewing—and according to Charles Krauthammer, the demonstrators are desperate for just one signal that the US supports them. Instead, President Obama has pledged "dialogue" with a "clerical dictator" and left the green revolutionaries... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • US foreign policy • Tiananmen Square • revolution • green revolution • Iranian politics • Obama administration • neoconservatives • Iranian election

ANALYSIS

Forget Tea Parties: Irate Brits Talking 'Bout a Revolution

Decades-long tensions come to the fore over latest scandal

May 24, 09 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain’s embattled politicians may have another revolution on their hands, but this time one that’s brewing on their own soil. Citizens are fuming over outrageous personal expenditures—including a miniature “duck house” and the clearing of a moat—by members of Parliament, but tensions have been simmering... More »

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British Parliament • Gordon Brown • corruption • House of Commons • revolution • Britain • political scandal • Michael Martin

Young Burmese Monks
Ready to Take Up Arms

Buddhist movement gets bolder; some suggest stockpiling weapons

Sep 20, 08 6:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - After seeing nonviolent protesters killed or detained in last year’s protests against the ruling junta, younger segments of Burma’s Buddhist monks are becoming more radical, embracing armed resistance and overt dissent, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "We need weapons,” one young monk said. “That is... More »

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revolution • political activism • Myanmar • Burma • Buddhist monks • Buddhism • monks • junta • repression

Oscar Niemeyer Threw Life a Curve or Two

The Brazilian architect, famed for his spiraling designs, turns 100

Dec 16, 07 6:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Oscar Niemeyer turned 100 this weekend, but the famed Brazilian architect is still planning for the best years of his life: he’s still developing bold designs—including a museum that resembles a giant eye—starting a magazine, and he recently remarried. Niemeyer, who soared to fame in 1956 after... More »

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architecture • Fidel Castro • Brazil • revolution • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Communism • Oscar Niemeyer

American Scholar to See Release From Iranian Prison

Held on charges of plotting revolution

Aug 21, 07 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of two Iranian-American scholars jailed in Iran on charges of conspiring with the US government to foment revolution will be freed from prison today if bail is posted. Held in Teheran’s infamous Evin prison since May, Haleh Esfandiari will be released on a $333,000 bail, the AP... More »

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Iran • revolution • conspiracy • prisoners • Haleh Esfandiari • scholar • release • Evin

Russian Kids Spend Summer Goose-stepping

Youth movement
an avatar of Putin propaganda

Jul 31, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a Soviet Era throwback, a new Russian youth group is said to be providing more than fun and games in its summer camp, the Weekly Standard reports. Nashi, Russian for “Ours,” is said to be an elite indoctrination program; while Russian officials liken it to the Boy... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Adolf Hitler • revolution • Ukraine • Jugend • Third Reich • Viktor Yushchenko • Nashi

Billionaire Plots New Russian Revolution

London emigre says
he's bankrolling coup, conspiring with elites

Apr 13, 07 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - An exiled Russian billionaire says he is bankrolling a coup to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin. Boris Berezovsky tells the Guardian: "It isn't possible to change this regime through democratic means. There can be no change without force, pressure." Asked if he is fomenting a revolution, he responds:... More »

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Russia • Boris Berezovsky • Alexander Litvinenko • Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • revolution • billionaire • Britain

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