The New Dark Age

7 February, 2011 16:43:38  — creative-i.info

News and analysis from the independent media on events in Egypt

7 February, 2011

• Bil`in protest in solidarity with Egypt attacked by Israeli troops
• `We were for blackmail` escaped Hamas prisoner says
• Mubarak’s Dangerous ‘Groupthink’
• Egyptian Blogger Describes Clashes
• Egypt Is Test of Obama’s Promises
• Reagan’s Epoch Shatters in Egypt
• Israel Frets Over Egyptian Uprising
• US Media & Egypt Coverage: Dodging the Real issues & Fudging the Real Culprits
• Media Crackdown: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Tahrir Square on the Systematic Targeting of Journalists in Egypt
• “The Empire’s Bagman”: Obama Egypt Envoy Frank Wisner Says Mubarak Should Stay
• Protests Demanding Mubarak to Resign Grow Stronger, Despite Some Government Concessions
• DEmocracy Now’s Headlines for February 7, 2011
• Whither Egypt? The Military is Backing Mubarak
• The Division of Egypt: Threats of US, Israeli, and NATO Military Intervention?
• US Warships Signal Washington’s Intervention to Save its Egyptian Garrison by Finian Cunningham
• US embassy cables: Egypt’s choice not just between Islam and dictatorship, says US
• US embassy cables: Egypt raises spectre of Muslim Brotherhood ‘bogeyman’
• US embassy cables: Suleiman takes hard line on Iranian ‘devils’
• US embassy cables: Suleiman on dangers posed by Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
• Neocons’ Tepid Reaction to the Egyptian Democratic Revolution
• Mondoweiss Online Newsletter
• The Bullet: Whither Egypt?
• The Division of Egypt: Threats of US, Israeli, and NATO Military Intervention?
• Kara N. Tina, “Egypt: Which Way Is the Way Forward? Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy”
• “Free Egypt! Mubarak must go NOW!” (Sydney Feb 5, 2011)
• Artists and Intellectuals Sign a Statement Demanding the Stepping Down of Mu-Barak
• Nick Bygon, “Egypt Will Rise” (Poster)
• Carlos Latuff, “Democracy in Egypt” (Cartoon)
• Egyptian Chronicles, “Mubarak’s Scales” (Protest Sign)
• Hanadi Omar and Mazin Qumsiyeh, “Rallies throughout Occupied Palestine in Solidarity with Egypt and Tunisia”
• Prabir Purkayastha, “Tunisia, Egypt, and Beyond: Interview with Aijaz Ahmad”
• Egypt: Washington’s Covert Intelligence Operation
• “Free Egypt! Mubarak must go NOW!”
• Egypt: People’s power takes on dictatorship
• A salute to Egypt’s democracy protests
• Solidarity with Tahrir Square
• A call from Egyptian socialists
• Deepening Crisis in Egypt
• His Master’s Voice By William Bowles
• US envoy’s business link to Egypt

6 February, 2011

• It`s not radical Islam that worries the US – it`s independence
• Exhausted, scared and trapped, protesters put forward plan for future
• Egyptian protesters fear retribution but press on
• China’s Media: Reportin’ Tahrir Square Like It’s 1989
• Military Resistance 9B6 6 February, 2011: Storming The Heavens
• Kharabeesh, “Mubarak Addresses the Egyptian People” (Animation)
• Ed Martin, “What Happens to Pent-up Anger? Interview with Michael D. Yates”
• His Master’s Voice By William Bowles