Egypt
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Washington Islamist strategy in crisis as Morsi toppled by F. William Engdahl
The swift action by Egypt’s military to arrest Mohamed Morsi and key leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood organization on July 3 marks a major setback for Washington’s “Arab Spring strategy of using political Islam to spread chaos from China through Russia across the energy-rich Middle East. Continue reading
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Egypt’s Coup Churns up Regional Politics (II) By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
It has now come to light that none other than the US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel was in touch with Sissi from Washington. The Pentagon has been forced to admit that Hagel spoke with Sissi last week but refuses to divulge details of the conversation. Asked why the Pentagon kept this detail under wraps so… Continue reading
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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Will Not Capitulate (I) By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The narrative we hear is far too simplistic. It goes something like this: an elected government turned out to be not only inept but arrogant and crudely insensitive toward the imperative need of inclusive democracy; a stagnant economy; rising prices; fuel shortages; power cuts – discontent is boiling over. Continue reading
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Bonapartist Coup in Egypt! By Sungur Savran
The near equality in strength of the two camps contending for power in Egypt led the army to stage a Bonapartist coup. It is not only the recent episode of unprecedented crowds in the millions coming out on 30 June that has made the army move. This struggle between the Muslim Brotherhood government of now… Continue reading
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Why millions of Egyptians wanted Morsi out By Abayomi Azikiwe
The only real hope for Egypt is the formation of a government of national unity where the progressive forces are at the centre of the emerging political dispensation Continue reading
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‘Full military coup’ underway in Egypt, tanks & APCs seen on streets
A military coup is underway in Egypt, according to Mohamed Morsi’s national security adviser and a Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson. Security forces have placed a travel ban on Morsi and a number of top Brotherhood officials, according to AFP sources. Continue reading
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'Full military coup' underway in Egypt, tanks & APCs seen on streets
A military coup is underway in Egypt, according to Mohamed Morsi’s national security adviser and a Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson. Security forces have placed a travel ban on Morsi and a number of top Brotherhood officials, according to AFP sources. Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 1 July 2013
1 July 2013 — williambowles.info Egypt’s Military Gives President 48 Hours to Resolve Crisis Wall Street Journal CAIRO—Egypt’s military gave Mohammed Morsi a 48-hour ultimatum to “resolve the crisis” before the military intervenes, setting the stage for a possible military coup a day after millions thronged Egypt’s streets demanding the president’s resignation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323297504578578991289439784.html Continue reading
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Feminist monkey wrenches in Egypt’s revolution By Eric Walberg
The process of shaping post-revolutionary Egypt to conform to the postmodern imperial world is proceeding apace. Egypt’s long history of invasion and occupation by first France (under Napoleon) and then Britain, and less formally from 1970 on under first Sadat and Mubarak, means there is a strong secular tradition, and the current attempt by Islamists… Continue reading
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Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: Egypt's Constitutional Referendum – Did President Morsi Hijack Democracy?
President Morsi created a new constitution for Egypt on December 26, 2012. Prior to this, Morsi was forced by massive street protests in Egypt to rescind an executive decree that granted him sweeping presidential powers. Continue reading
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The Qatar Leaks: The Secret Business of Foreign Affairs By Radwan Mortada
Leaked minutes from Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Conversations with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, from Russia’s involvement in Syria to Gaddafi’s fall Continue reading
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EGYPT: THE UPRISING TWO YEARS ON
On January 25, 2011, spirited bands of protesters joined hands in the epochal popular revolt that would unseat Husni Mubarak, Egypt’s dictator of 30 years. Where is the country headed, with a new civilian government (for now) at the helm? The winter 2012 issue of Middle East Report offers reflections upon “Egypt: The Uprising Two… Continue reading
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Egypt in Light of the Iranian Revolution: The Restoration of a Dictatorship? By Araz Bagban
The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohamed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in addition to its properties of attacking working-class achievements as well as women’s and minorities’ rights, is preparing the legal ground for… Continue reading
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Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair By Hani Shukrallah
Why does the Western media refuse to see the epochal resurgence of Egypt’s revolutionary spirit? Because love is blind Continue reading
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Egypt erupts in anger. Democracy is not the final word (II) By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
Without doubt, the ground reality is that Islamism does enjoy majority support among the people of Egypt and it becomes all at once highly debatable today to argue that Morsi is imposing an agenda of ‘Islamization’. Continue reading
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US wants to install a Mubarak-type dictatorship in Egypt: Analyst
A Cairo-based political commentator tells that the United States is seeking to set up a new dictatorship in Egypt under its supervision similar to the one during the Mubarak regime. Continue reading
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Five Notes on Egypt's Crisis By Joshua Stacher
Amidst street battles over Muhammad Mursi’s decree and Egypt’s draft constitution, the Brothers have indeed argued a familiar authoritarian line: The protesters have no valid claims; they are a small troublemaking minority; they wish to disregard electoral results and plunge the country into chaos. Some of the Brothers and their backers have been portraying the… Continue reading
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Egypt's Morsi: Biting the bullet By Eric Walberg
At last Egyptian politics is moving. President Mohamed Morsi is slowly building on his summer ‘coup’, when he stared down Egypt’s generals and put his men in the top army and defence positions, following terrorist attacks in Sinai which the army, so old and bumbling, so involved in Egyptian internal politics, failed to prevent. Continue reading
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The Death Agony of Anti-Imperialism, 2 Egypt, 1 By S. Artesian
The organization of landed property, of the landed estate, and of landed labor in Egypt was driven and determined by that which could not truly be appropriated as property—water. Water and the lack thereof, regulated, so to speak, the oscillations between scarcity and abundance. Water and the lack thereof imposed an approximate egalitarianism; a communalism… Continue reading
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Lies, Revolutions and Wars: A House of Sand and Fog By Nebojsa Malic
Last summer, as the Sandstorm mistakenly dubbed the “Arab Spring” swept across North Africa, a cadre of professional revolutionaries the Empire created in Serbia bragged about their role in the revolts to some European videographers. Sure, the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt may have begun spontaneously, but Empire-trained activists soon took control and channeled the… Continue reading
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The New Dark Age 