Social crisis in the Maghreb (part 1)

François Picard’s explains how internet has let the free speech genie out of the bottle in Algeria and Tunisia, the international community talks itself into a corner over Ivory Coast and why Barack Obama should take a leaf out of the book of new House speaker John Boehner and cry a little more.

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Matthew SALTMARSH, Reporter, International Herald Tribune
Judah GRUNSTEIN, Editor-in-chief, World Politics review
Paul TAYLOR, Associate Editor, Reuters
Régis LE SOMMIER, Co-Editor in Chief , Paris Match

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