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698 Two years after the Arab Spring, questions still remain as to how much social media actually helped fuel and drive the uprisings that arose in Tunisia and swept across the region. But regardless of what happened during those Twitter-fueled revolutions, what's happened afterward? That's what social

Dime President Obama's policies to death with the ultimate goal of dismantling almost all of his accomplishments, as well as to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Last year the tenants of this same Ryan plan was celebrated by the GOP as the "Pathway to Prosperity" campaign — cutting spendi

Peace Prize EFTA00673212 Inline image 1 Although there is still unrest in the country, one of the biggest successes of The Arab Spring has to be Tunisia. This former North African colony of almost eleven million people which became independent of France on March 20, 1956 was led by Zine El Abidine Be

pment. So what should be done? The United States government has created myriad special pricing arrangements that pervert incentives. For instance, Medicaid generally gets the lowest prices in the market. This discourages drug companies from experimenting with other payers on lower price arrangements, kn

charges of tax fraud and corruption. It will be interesting to see if Berlusconi will flee like a predecessor Bettino Craxi who in May 1994 fled to Tunisia to escape jail and remained a fugitive there, protected by Ben Ali's government until his death on 19 January 2000. Weekend Reading Last week my q

net since Medicare. Mr. Romney doesn't have an economic plan at all, but he is determined not just to repeal Obamacare but to impose savage cuts in Medicaid. So never mind all those bullet points. Think instead about the 45 million Americans who either will or won't receive essential health care, dependi

Fear Salafis Robin Wright August 19, 2012 -- THIS spring, I traveled to the cradle of the Arab uprisings — a forlorn street corner in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, where a street vendor, drenched in paint thinner, struck a match in December 2010 that ignited the entire Middle East. "We have far more freedoms,

t that is focused on the domestic economy. With Congress having a number of incumbents whose constituencies loathe the thought of cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans' benefits, and Social Security, taking greater risks in national security is a more tangible option. As the nation borrows over $1 trilli

h of the country, but=not all of it. Jihadists, meanwhile, are taking control of the oppos=tion. Thousands of militants from Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia have flocked to Syria. An estimated 1,500 to 2,000 Europ=an citizens and dozens of American citizens have joined the fight there as wel=. An unknow

s Strategy Network, a progressive group of academics, illustrates how states&=39; decisions to not create their own health care exchanges or expand Medicaid under the ACA have suppressed enrollment. According to Skocpol's resear=h, the 14 states that are expanding Medicaid and running their own exchanges

GDP 2009 2005 Change YIY As%of 2009 Budget World Surplus / Total Deficit ($B) As % of World Gross Unemploy- Deficit 2009 ment Rate YIY (pps) Tunisia Ethiopia Colombia Cyprus Poland Spain Kenya Norway Ghana Bolivia Sweden Brazil Switzerland Latvia Malawi Malaysia Denmark Gabon Finland Turkey Czech

T TT TT TTT TT (1 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 Note: Total government spending on healthcare includes Medicare, Medicaid and other programs and total government spending on education includes spending on pre-primary through tertiary education programs. Source: Dept. of

in Bahrain, where Shiites are a distinct majority and Iran had claimed sovereignty as recently as 1970. The protests that began this past January in Tunisia had nothing to do with any of this. They started when a struggling street vendor in that country's desolate heartland publicly set himself on fire af

e voting for tax increases, and there are Democrats who are willing to meaningfully scale back the benefits promised by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. In the Senate, a group of Democrats and Republicans operating independently of party leaders is trying to come up with a plan that neither party wo