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Porter: Thoughts for Independent Algeria’s 50th Birthday
Znet Article, June, 23 2012
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Every substantial political upheaval is rooted in millions of individual rebellious attitudes and behaviors nourished anonymously over generations
Porter: Election Boycott Challenges Algerian Regime
Znet Article, April, 15 2012
David Porter
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The most critical question is how this confrontation translates into meaningful political decision-making and freedom for Algerians at the grassroots
Porter: The Long Shadow of Algeria on the Arab Autumn
Znet Article, November, 05 2011
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January 11th will be the 20th anniversary of the military coup that cancelled elections and Algeria’s earlier “Arab Spring”
Porter: On “Leaderless Revolutions” and the Fall of Mubarak
Znet Article, February, 12 2011
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“Leaderless revolutions,” as seen currently in North Africa, pose important challenges to outside media and to foreigners, generally, seeking authoritative voices to clarify the picture of fast-moving events.
Porter: Algeria: Soccer, Scandals and the President
Znet Article, January, 29 2010
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Strange as it seems, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and most of his high-level entourage these days must focus attention (and hopes) on the Algerian national soccer team. The “Greens†of Algeria last week defeated the heavily-favored ...
Porter: Algeria, Elections and Gaza
Znet Article, January, 19 2009
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In Algeria, as elsewhere throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds, Israel’s brutal war on Gaza clarified once again the great distance between ordinary citizens and their respective political regimes. Daily media images of savage attacks and Palest...
Porter: Algeria: More Violence and “Normality”
Znet Article, December, 21 2007
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In spectacular fashion, the latest suicide attacks in Algiers confirm that nothing basic has changed in the political dynamics of Algeria. The immediate horror of apparently 70 or more deaths and 200 wounded in two truck bomb attacks on December 1...
Porter: The Pentagon's Algeria
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
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The visit of Donald Rumsfeld to Algiers a week ago shows that the Pentagon has turned the commonly-understood "Algerian model" on its head. Responding to the Iraqi insurgency against foreign occupation since 2003, various commentators including pa...
