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Voices of Democracy

סין והאינטרנט: סדק בחומה הגדולה

סין והאינטרנט: סדק בחומה הגדולה

האולימפיאדה הסתיימה - אך הדיכוי בסין נמשך. על קשר השתיקה של ענקיות הרשת, על רפיסותה של דעת הקהל העולמית ואיך הרשת הצליחה לשחרר 500 איש שנחטפו לעבדות? ניר בומס, ניב ליליאן המשחקים האולימפיים בבייג'ין תמו, ועינו של העולם מוסטת כעת מסין. אך הדיכוי השיטתי של חופש המחשבה, ההגבלות על ביטויים...

By Nir Boms
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August 31, 2008
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DISCOURSE OF CHANGE

DISCOURSE OF CHANGE

By Nir Boms (Lecture notes given in Melbourne, Australia) The main domestic objective of most Middle Eastern governments is to maintain the status quo regarding the balance between citizen freedoms and oppression. Opposition movements can be roughly divided into two main groups: Islamist opposition, which think the governments are too...

By Nir Boms
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July 30, 2008
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Net activism rattles Arabs

Net activism rattles Arabs

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...

By Nir Boms
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June 27, 2008
5 Min Read
Shortwave Democracy

Shortwave 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...

By Nir Boms
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May 21, 2008
4 Min Read
Syria and Tunisia: Enemies of the Web

Syria and Tunisia: Enemies of the Web

By Nir Boms FrontPageMagazine.com | December 15, 2004 Last month, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the creation of a new group to exert control over what has remained a rare bastion of freedom: the Internet. The group's forum is the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Its 40...

By Nir Boms
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May 21, 2008
4 Min Read
Democracy Web

Democracy Web

  August 23rd, 2004 By Nir Boms/Erick Stakelbeck While the war on terror has left scores of Islamist terrorists worldwide on the run, there is still one place where they - or at least, their message - can find safe refuge: the Internet.  In the past two weeks alone, a...

By Nir Boms
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May 21, 2008
5 Min Read
A Democratic Middle East?

A Democratic Middle East?

By Nir Boms and Erick Stackelbeck FrontPageMagazine.com | October 4, 2004 On Oct. 1, over 30 Middle Eastern American groups gathered at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., to discuss something that is only whispered about in their native lands: freedom. The Middle Eastern American Convention for Freedom...

By Nir Boms
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May 21, 2008
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Dawn of Freedom Awaits Sunrise

Dawn of Freedom Awaits Sunrise

by Nir Boms and Aaron Mannes Tuesday, April 5, 2005 7:33 PM EDT The DC Examiner With elections in Iraq and the Palestinian Authority, huge pro-freedom demonstrations in tiny Lebanon and even small pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt, it appears that freedom's dawn is finally reaching the Middle East. But democracies...

By Nir Boms
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May 21, 2008
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Radio Free World

Radio Free World

  July 13, 2004, 8:57 a.m. Radio Free World Liberty-starved countries see a boom in clandestine radio. By Nir Boms & Erick Stakelbeck Although it often seems like a solitary outpost of democratic sanity, the U.S. is not alone in waging the war of ideas. Since 9/11, over a dozen...

By Nir Boms
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May 20, 2008
5 Min Read
Taking Back Islam

Taking Back Islam

Moderate Muslims say their faith is compatible with freedom. June 03, 2004, 8:47 a.m. By Erick Stakelbeck & Nir Boms There's an elephant in the room whenever the current U.S. operation in Iraq is discussed: Is Islam truly compatible with democracy? Or do the U.S.'s troubles in stabilizing Iraq signal...

By Nir Boms
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May 14, 2008
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