June 27th, 2008 FACEBOOK, the popular social networking site, is becoming more than just a cyber meeting place as it turns into a powerful vehicle for social change. Squeezing out MySpaceas the site of the moment and with 75million users (more than the population of most countries), it appears to be the most popular [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Voices of Democracy'
Net activism rattles Arabs
June 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Blog Police, Middle East, Voices of Democracy
Tags: facebook·Gulf States·Iran·Syria
Shortwave Democracy
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Middle East, UN, Voices of Democracy
By Nir Boms and Erick Stakelbeck Published June 28, 2004 Although it often seems like a solitary outpost of democratic sanity, the United States is not alone in waging the war of ideas. Since September 11, more than a dozen privately ownedpro-democracy radio stations have emerged in freedom-starved countries like North Korea, Syria, Iran [...]
Tags: Democracy·Iran·Iraq·North Korea·reform·Syria·TV and Radio Interviews·UN