Oct 10 Watch News Wrap: Americans Win Nobel for Economic Growth, Inflation Research In other news Monday, two Americans won the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent were honored for their work in the 1970s and '80s on how government policies can affect economic growth and inflation. Also, Syrian… Continue watching
Oct 07 Supporters of Assad Regime Retaliate — on the Web Dictators in Tunisia and Egypt learned the hard way about the organizational and promotional power of social media. It's a lesson that supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad have taken to heart. In recent weeks and months, as Syria… Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch As Violence in Syria Escalates, Will Many ‘Fence Sitters’ Back Opposition? Word of a violent weekend assault on the city of Rastan by Syrian security forces prompted protests in several other cities across the country on Monday. Ray Suarez discusses the recent increase in violence with NPR's Deborah Amos, reporting from… Continue watching
Sep 07 Did Food Prices Spur the Arab Spring? By News Desk Parts of the Middle East and North Africa were historically considered the Fertile Crescent, but this region of abundance is now in decline, and some analysts say it's no coincidence that there is unrest growing in its place. Continue reading
Aug 24 Charging Cell Phones on the Sly in Syria, the True Story By Larisa Epatko Earlier this month, we aired a report from our partners at GlobalPost about protesters in Syria -- the mistreatment they endured and their tactics for getting around a restrictive regime. One method of recharging cell phone batteries described by one… Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch News Wrap: Stocks Gain Amid Hopes of New Fed Stimulus Program In other news Tuesday, Wall Street shot back up amid speculations that the Federal Reserve might try a new stimulus program. Also, Hurricane Irene swept past the Turks and Caicos Islands with the southeastern Bahamas next in its path. It… Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch What’s Next for Syria as Global Leaders Isolate Assad? The Syrian government rejected President Obama's call for Assad to step down on Thursday, accusing the United States and the West of "seeking to stoke more violence." Jeffrey Brown discusses the growing tension with Theodore Kattouf of AMIDEAST and Murhaf… Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch Secretary Clinton: ‘It’s Time for Assad to Get out of the Way’ Secretary Clinton: 'It's Time for Assad to Get out of the Way'… Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch Inside Syria, Electricity and Internet Are Lifeblood for Activists Turkey's foreign minister met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Monday to express his concern about the Syrian offensive, but Assad defied outside appeals to stop the deadly crackdown. GlobalPost's Annasofie Flamand and Hugh Macleod discuss the unrest with three… Continue watching
Aug 09 Syria’s Protesters: Whatever the Price, ‘We Have to Get Rid’ of Regime By Larisa Epatko A new report offered by our partners at GlobalPost gets the perspective of three young revolutionaries determined to bring about change in Syria. Continue reading