Who would have believed that the immolation of a single fruit vendor would spark nation-wide protests and lead to the precipitous downfall of the Tunisian dictator who ruled for 23 years? Who could have imagined that these protests would spread almost immediately to Yemen, Jordan and Egypt? This has been the ultimate Black Swan, a term made famous by economist Nassim Taleb, meaning a...

Stephen Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations, David Keyes, director of CyberDissidents.org and James Cowie, co-founder of Web-monitoring firm Renesys Corp., talk with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox and David Wilson about the uses of the Internet and the political unrest in Egypt. To hear the interview, please click here. 

In Egypt, a Facebook page administrator known only by the handle El Shaheeed, or Martyr, is one of the driving forces behind the historic protests. Mike Giglio tracks down the mysterious figure, who talks about his crucial role in organizing the demonstrations.  Iran’s Green Revolution had a martyr named Neda, a 26-year-old woman gunned down in the streets of Tehran. Tunisia’s was...

As Egypt protest continues new means of communication draws forward with the help of “We Rebuild”, a group that has turned to landline phones, fax machines and ham radio in order to communicate messages out of the country. Authorities in Egypt have continuously blocked the Internet access from country’s four major Internet providers abruptly due to the riots and unrest that is prevailing...