The New Dark Age

4 February, 2011 — creative-i

Apologies for no posts for the past couple of days but I’ve been rather unwell.

4 February, 2011

• Why isn’t the PA supporting the Egypt uprising?
• Australian rallies in solidarity with the Egyptian people
• Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention? by Rick Rozoff
• Dyab Abou Jahjah, “Egypt: On the Barricades”
• Hossam el-Hamalawy, “Egypt: Vodafone Supports Dictatorship”
• Mark Weisbrot, “Haiti Resists US Pressure, Announces Aristide Can Return”
• Oil prices skyrocket amid Egypt crisis
• Egyptian authorities order protesters to leave
• Egypt protesters killed in hail of gunfire
• The streets are filled with volunteers
• The roots of Egypt’s uprising
• Losing their fear and fighting back
• ‘It’s a massacre’: Regime attacks protesters
• Egypt: Workers hold key to uprising
• Robert Fisk: Blood and fear in Cairo’s streets as Mubarak’s men crack down on protests
• America loses another ally as Yemen’s President quits

3 February, 2011

• Egypt’s revolution inspires Gaza’s youth
• Egypt: Will U.S. And NATO Launch Second Suez Intervention?
• Noam Chomsky: This is the Most Remarkable Regional Uprising that I Can Remember
• FOX pundits support democracy, sometimes
• UN urges Egypt dialogue
• U.S. Chickens Come Home to Roost in Egypt
• As’ad AbuKhalil, “Egypt: Retrofitting ‘Operation Ajax’ to Support the Pharaoh against the People”
• Chaos in Cairo as Mubarak backers and opponents clash
• Al-Jazeera: It’s Not Just for Arabs Anymore
• Egypt Leaving an Epoch Behind
• Eyewitness: Millions on streets against Mubarak
• Mark Steel: It’s people who bring change
• Noam Chomsky: “This Is The Most Remarkable Regional Uprising That I Can Remember”
• As Mubarak Pledges To Finish Term, Egyptian Protesters Stay in Streets Demanding Immediate End to Regime: Democracy Now! Reports Live from Cairo
• Voices of the Egyptian Revolution: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Speaks with Demonstrators in Tahrir Square at “March of Millions”
• Bloodshed in Egypt: Mubarak Supporters Riding on Horses and Camels Violently Attack Protesters in Tahrir Square, Over 100 Injured
• A Look at Mubarak’s Rule of Egypt
• Headlines for February 2, 2011
• Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt: How ‘spontaneous’ are they?
• Egyptian demonstrators celebrate stamina
• Egypt’s Revolution: US Imperialism Brought to Heel by Finian Cunningham
• Revolution in Egypt: The People vs. the Judeo-plutocracy
• Egypt’s Revolution: US Imperialism Brought to Heel
• Egypt on the brink of a bloodbath
• US-Israeli Strategy Crashes in Egypt
• The Unpredictability of Uprisings
• How Food Prices Feed Egyptian Revolt
• US Cynicism Explodes in Egypt
• State of the Union: Unnamable Politics and Useful Idiots by Joseph Natoli
• Protests in Egypt are social, rather than religious, in character
• Thai Red Shirt solidarity with Egypt’s struggle for democracy
• Egypt’s uprising and its implications for Palestine (and Jordan)
• Egyptian president refuses to step down, will not seek re-election
• Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy of the US and the West
• U.S. Chickens Come Home to Roost in Egypt
• Soccer against the dictator
• Millions against Mubarak
• Communist Party of Egypt: ‘The revolution will continue until the demands of the masses are fulfilled’
• Come home with your rhetoric, Mr. President by Ralph Nader
• Pothik Ghosh, “On the Arab Revolt: Interview with Vijay Prashad”
• Hicham Safieddine, “Tomorrow’s Tunisia and Egypt: Reform or Revolution?”
• Nicholas Noe, “US Envoy to Egypt Frank Wisner: Paid Lobbyist for Egyptian Government and Leading ‘Commercial Families in Egypt’”
• Josh Rogin, “Top House Appropriator: U.S. Aid to Egypt Not Stopping Any Time Soon”