The latest on Dandelion Salad29 January, 2011 — creative-i.info
Tunisia’s revolution rap hits the big stage
AFP
TUNIS — Once banned from the airwaves under the Tunisian regime, rap artists are taking their revolutionary lyrics to the big stage for the first time on …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hm8gWdc5y-SXzHc-9H2Lt_cwCABA?docId=CNG.67623850a684b3db3f7388147dd9cea7.01
29 January, 2011 — creative-i.info
WikiLeaks founder says enjoys making banks squirm
Reuters
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up CD’s containing data on offshore bank account holders, which he received from former Swiss private banker Rudolf …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/idINIndia-54494520110129
29 January, 2011 — creative-i.info
DOD spokesman attacks reporters for misrepresenting Bradley Manning case
Daily Caller
(AP Photo, File) Some of the staunchest defenders of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the man who stands accused of leaking secret documents to WikiLeaks, …
dailycaller.com/2011/01/28/dod-spokesman-attacks-reporters-for-misrepresenting-bradley-manning-case/
28 January, 2011 — URUK Net
The Protest Movement in Egypt: “Dictators” do not Dictate, They Obey Orders
by Michel Chossudovsky
January 28, 2011 – The puppet masters support dissent against their own puppets? Its called “political leveraging”, “manufacturing dissent”. Support the dictator as well as the opponents of the dictator as a means of controlling the political opposition. These actions on the part of Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, on behalf of the Bush and Obama administrations, ensure that the US funded civil society opposition will not direct their energies against the puppet masters behind the Mubarak regime, namely the US government. These US funded civil society organizations act as a “Trojan Horse” which becomes embedded within the protest movement. They protect the interests of the puppet masters. They ensure that the grassroots protest movement will not address the broader issue of foreign interference in the affairs of sovereign states…
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=74382
27 January, 2011 — URUK Net
Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy
Professor Mark LeVine interviews journalist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy on the situation in Egypt.
Mark LeVine
January 27, 2011 – In Egypt we say that Tunis was more or less a catalyst, not an instigator, because the objective conditions for an uprising existed in Egypt, and revolt has been in the air over the past few years. Indeed, we already managed to have 2 mini-intifadas or “mini Tunisias” in 2008. The first was the April 2008 uprising in Mahalla, followed by another one in Borollos, in the north of the country. Revolutions don’t happen out of the blue. It’s not because of Tunisia yesterday that we have one in Egypt mechanically the next day. You can’t isolate these protests from the last four years of labour strikes in Egypt, or from international events such as the al-Aqsa intifada and the US invasion of Iraq…
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=74364
28 January, 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
27 dead in Egypt uprising; Mubarak refuses to step down
IMEMC – Saturday January 29, 2011 – 03:42, As hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Egypt Friday in the 4th straight day of protests, President Hosni Mubarak said that he would replace his cabinet with new officials — a move that was unsatisfactory to the protesters, who called on Mubarak himself to resign.
29 January, 2011 — Global Research
“Dictators” do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true in Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt.
Dictators are invariably political puppets. Dictators do not decide.
President Hosni Mubarak was a faithful servant of Western economic interests and so was Ben Ali
The national government is the object of the protest movement. The objective is to unseat the puppet rather than the puppet-master. The slogans in Egypt are “Down with Mubarak, Down with the Regime”. No anti-American posters have been reported… The overriding and destructive influence of the USA in Egypt and throughout the Middle East remains unheralded.
28 January, 2011 — MRZine
1. The change in the composition of the Tunisian government ousting RCD ministers seems to have satisfied the UGTT. This is a sign that the protest now will be weakened. The protest was gathering sympathy again with an ever recurring discussion on regionalism and regional identity. The people are aware and they are pushing their agenda, through. The protest will continue as a pressure card and a watchdog counting every breath Ghannouchi and his crew take. A strong anti-American sentiment is growing, now that it is clear that the Americans are trying to hijack the revolution and secure the loyalty of the new regime.
29 January, 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
“Egyptian revolt prepared with US secret support” – The Daily Telegraph
The revolt in Egypt was prepared with the US secret support, claims the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
According to the periodical, the opposition has been engaged in masterminding an overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak over the past three years.
The Washington Administration publicly poses as Mubarak’s ally, while secretly providing support for the opposition forces.
This follows from US diplomats’ reports from Cairo, reports that have been made public by the WikiLeaks website.
According to the British daily, an Egyptian activist visited a dissenter forum in New York in 2008, with the US authorities bending every effort that his name never surface and become known to Egyptian special services.
29 January, 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
“Egyptian revolt prepared with US secret support” – The Daily Telegraph
The revolt in Egypt was prepared with the US secret support, claims the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
According to the periodical, the opposition has been engaged in masterminding an overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak over the past three years.
The Washington Administration publicly poses as Mubarak’s ally, while secretly providing support for the opposition forces.
This follows from US diplomats’ reports from Cairo, reports that have been made public by the WikiLeaks website.
According to the British daily, an Egyptian activist visited a dissenter forum in New York in 2008, with the US authorities bending every effort that his name never surface and become known to Egyptian special services.
28 January, 2011
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29 January, 2011
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28 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House
Al Jazeera English Live From Egypt
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27365.htm
Joe Biden says Egypt’s Mubarak No Dictator
By Dan Murphy
Mr. Biden’s comments are unlikely to be well-received by regime opponents, as they fit a narrative of steadfast US support for a government they want to bring down.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27366.htm
28 January, 2011 — Al Jazeera
Live reports from Al Jazeera. Watch the video
28 January, 2011 — Al Jazeera
28 January, 2011 — Euronews
The headquarters of Egypt s ruling party have been set ablaze after a curfew was announced to try and quell unrest, the likes of which has not been seen in the country for decades.
Tanks have rolled into two principle flashpoint towns, Cairo and in Suez, where earlier clashes reportedly left two protesters dead, one in each city. Shots were heard in the centre of the capital after a 18:00 until 07:00 curfew came into force. In Cairo hospital sources say more than 400 protesters and an unspecified number of policemen were wounded in the violence. There have been unconfirmed reports that soldiers fired shots at protesters who had climbed onto tanks in Suez.
28 January, 2011 — Euronews
The headquarters of Egypt’s ruling party have been set ablaze after a curfew was announced to try and quell unrest, the likes of which has not been seen in the country for decades.
Tanks have rolled into two principle flashpoint towns, Cairo and in Suez, where earlier clashes reportedly left two protesters dead, one in each city. Shots were heard in the centre of the capital after a 18:00 until 07:00 curfew came into force. In Cairo hospital sources say more than 400 protesters and an unspecified number of policemen were wounded in the violence. There have been unconfirmed reports that soldiers fired shots at protesters who had climbed onto tanks in Suez.
Appropos Marshall’s piece (below), it’s interesting to note that early this morning, the Egyptian regime shut down the internet and the cellular networks including Vodaphone, whose HQ was attacked and burnt down for shutting its network down.
See: Egypt Leaves The Internet By James Cowie28 January, 2011 Renesys.com
and,
Egypt: Interview With Blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy By Mark LeVine 28 January, 2011 Aljazeera
26 January, 2011 — Global Research
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination… The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening… That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing… The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches…
Jack DuVall 00:19 on January 30, 2011 Permalink |
This article states that ‘the Kifaya movement, which organized one of the first actions directed against the Mubarak regime in late 2004, is supported by the US based International Center for Non-Violent Conflict.’ That is false. The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict is a private operating foundation that is barred by law from providing funding or support to other organizations for their operations. The Center’s sole purpose is to teach and provide educational materials, seminars and courses on how nonviolent action can be used to secure rights, justice and democracy. It has never furnished material support of any kind to the Kifaya movement, although it applauds all Egyptian groups and individuals engaged in nonviolent action to seek rights and full democracy in that country.”