31 January, 2011 — MRZine
FYI:
Cf. BahrainFeb14, <twitter.com/BahrainFeb14>; “Clerics have been ordered to preach against chaos” (As’ad AbuKhalil, “Bahrain Is Scared,” Angry Arab News Service, 28 January 2011); Nima Khorrami Assl, “The Real Threat in Gulf” (Foreign Policy Journal, 31 January 2011).
14 February, 2011 — MRZine
Among the most watched Bahraini protest videos today is this one showing police attacking protesters in Duraz, Bahrain, 14 February 2011:
Protest organizers say a protester by the name of Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 27 years old, was killed by police in Manama.
15 February, 2011 — MERIP
(Ursula Lindsey is a Cairo-based reporter and writer.)
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For background on the 2010 elections, see Mona El-Ghobashy, “The Liquidation of Egypt’s Illiberal Experiment,” Middle East Report Online, December 29, 2010. |
It took 18 days of mass mobilization, the deaths of hundreds and the wounding of thousands, the crippling of Egypt’s tourism industry and the crash of its stock market, to bring an end to the 30-year presidency of Husni Mubarak. And almost every minute of the revolution was televised.
15 February, 2011 — MRZine
What is happening in Egypt is of immense importance, not only due to the importance of the country but also due to the radicality of the demand. The demand is not just that Mubarak should leave — that is a first step — but that the system be changed, putting an end to the neoliberal system associated with the military dictatorship. That is going to be a long series of battles for months — and perhaps even more — to come. . . .
15 February, 2011 17:21:44 — creative-i.info
15 February, 2011
15 February, 2011 17:22:50 — creative-i.info
15 February, 2011
THURSDAY 17 FEBRUARY, 7pm
SOAS, Brunei Gallery, Room B102 (off Russell Square)
Speakers:
Adam Hanieh, SOAS
John Rees, Counterfire
Roland Rance, Socialist Resistance
Farid Bakht, Green Left and Tunisian democracy activist
Further details from Fred 079 4189 3212
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
BHP offered to swap China info with US – Wikileaks
Reuters
Kloppers took personal credit for quashing that deal, according to
Wikileaks, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “Australia does not want to
become an open …
www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/15/wikileaks-bhpbilliton-idUSL3E7DE27I20110215
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Assange Opposed Quick Publication of Cables Out of Concern for Manning
Wired News (blog)
Davies met with Assange after reading Wired.com’s excerpts of chat logs between Bradley Manning and ex-hacker Adrian Lamo in which Manning allegedly …
www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/assange-opposed-cables/
14 February, 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Israel closes northern West Bank road; deny report that checkpoints will be dismantled
IMEMC – Tuesday February 15, 2011 – 05:47, Over the weekend, Israeli troops erected new earth mounds blocking the Nablus-Beit Iba road, a road which had been closed by Israeli authorities until international intervention by the Quartet for Mideast Peace, protests and lawsuits led to its opening in 2010. Also this weekend, Israeli military officials told the Tel Aviv-based news site Ynet that there were no plans to dismantle the West Bank’s two largest internal checkpoints, Huwwara and Beit Furik.
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Bahrain Protests Swell With Second Death, Tear Gas at Funeral
BusinessWeek
15 (Bloomberg) — Protests against Bahrain’s government escalated today as a second demonstrator was reportedly killed and police used tear gas to break up …
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-15/bahrain-protests-swell-with-second-death-tear-gas-at-funeral.html
11 February, 2011 — Open Media Boston
Last night I attended a large gathering of activists who came together in Arlington Center, Massachusetts, to listen to MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky and Institute for Policy Studies fellow Phyllis Bennis discuss how to reinvigorate and expand the Peace Movement. Both speakers emphasized the need for anti-war activists to make links with other groups working for change, and particularly to get involved in supporting the majority of Americans who are overwhelmed by the ongoing economic crisis.
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Upheaval Opens the Exits in Tunisia
New York Times
By THOMAS FULLER SEDOUIKECH, Tunisia — A dozen young men left this village of olive groves and whitewashed houses near the Mediterranean coast last week, …
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15tunisia.html
14 February, 2011 — Information Clearing House
Is The Army Tightening Its Grip On Egypt?
By Robert Fisk
There is a growing concern among those who overthrew Mubarak that the fruits of their victory may be gobbled up by an army largely composed of generals who achieved their power and privilege under Mubarak himself. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27470.htm
14 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Violence Marks Fourth Day of Yemeni Protests Against President
Bloomberg
By Mohammed Hatem – Mon Feb 14 10:24:15 GMT 2011 Thousands of protesters gathered at Yemen’s Sanaa University for the fourth day, demanding President Ali …
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-14/violence-marks-fourth-day-of-yemeni-protests-against-president.html
14 February, 2011 — 3Arabawy
In a dictatorship, independent journalism by default becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
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10 February, 2011 — Eric Walberg
Any new government in Egypt will be anti-Israel…
Quiet tourist backwater Tunisia under its only rulers since independence — Habib Bourghiba (1956-1987) and then Zein Al-Abidine bin Ali (1987-2011) — was a much appreciated ally of the United States. However, as bin Ali fled to Saudi Arabia last month, US leaders suddenly were hailing those who defied his US-trained police with their US-made tear gas and guns, including the 100 they killed.
14 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Italy Seeks to Use Forces to Halt Illegal Immigrants From Tunisia
New York Times
Would-be immigrants from Tunisia were detained after arriving by boat on Lampedusa, a small Italian island closer to Tunisia than the Italian mainland. …
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/europe/14boats.html?src=twrhp
14 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
Feeling the pressure at WikiLeaks
The Australian
Former member of the Wikileaks group Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a critic of the leadership style of Julian Assange, has established a rival whistleblower…
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/feeling-the-pressure-at-wikileaks/story-e6frg6z6-1226005379420
14 February, 2011
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1. EU-COE: Discussions on EU joining the ECHR: Working Document from the European Commission
2. Switzerland: Rights Groups Issue ‘Indictment’ of Bush
3. UK: Cameron’s Munich speech marks securitisation of race policy (IRR News Service)
4. Statewatch Analysis: Time to rethink terrorist blacklisting
5. Statewatch Analysis: EU: Deepening the democratic deficit: the failure to “enshrine” the public’s right of access to documents
6. EU: Council of the European Union: Charter of Fundamnetal Rights
7. EU: UK House of Lords Select Committee: Implementing the Stockholm Programme: Home Affairs
8. GREECE: Migrants’ Strike Tests Greek Govt
9 UK: COUNTER-TERRORISM: Lord Carlile: Sixth report
10. EU-PNR: European Commission: Proposal for a Directive on the use of Passenger Name Record
11. Netherlands: Meijers Committee: On immigration and asylum in the VVD-CDA Coalition Agreement of 30 September 2010
12. EU: DATA PROTECTION: Council of the European Union: Council conclusions on comprehensive approach
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