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• Bulgaria’s Tomato Revolution | The World

  "Ukraine had its Orange Revolution, Georgia had its Rose Revolution, and if a shaggy-haired poet who was a dissident under communism gets his way, Bulgaria will soon have its Tomato Revolution. Nikolay Kolev, better known as ‘Bosiya’ (Barefoot), was arrested in Sofia on Tuesday after he threw a single tomato at the wall of Bulgaria’s parliament. It was a protest, so he said, against rampant official corruption."

  tags: bulgaria corruption easterneurope balkan europeanunion europe

• Calm returns to Gaza, but Israel warns of attacks if truce fails

  ** Israel failing to learn the lesson that the military is not the solution to all its problems... ** "“Can we win Gaza over from Hamas, yes definitely,” Israeli Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor told journalists in Jerusalem. “If we decide to do it we’ll do it.” The morning after it took effect, the ceasefire was being honored in the Gaza Strip, following eight days of cross-border violence that resulted in the deaths of 163 Palestinians and five Israelis."

  tags: israel palestine hamas imperialism colonialism middleeast

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