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Saudis’ Unprecedented Break with Washington over Egypt By F. William Engdahl
One of the least commented aspects of ousting Egypt’s Morsi is the defiant act of the Saudi Royal House in backing the ouster of the Brotherhood and supporting the military restoration. The Saudi move is unprecedented in its open defiance of White House declared backing for the Muslim Brotherhood. The implications of the split are… Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 12 July 2013: ‘Palestinian Settler’: Israel’s Indigenous Invaders
12 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Supreme Court Postpones Amona EvictionIMEMC – Date Moved from July 15 to July 24 The Israeli Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the eviction of the Israeli settlement of Amona would be moved from its July 15 date. The eviction of the Central West Bank hilltop Continue reading
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ICH 11 July 2013: Arab Oil Cash to Kill Democracy in Egypt
11 July 2013 — Information Clearing House How Egypt’s ‘Revolution’ Betrayed Itself By Ramzy Baroud These very forces were openly involved in toppling the democratically-elected president and his party, as they happily celebrated the return to oppression as a glorious day of freedom. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35518.htm Continue reading
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Egypt: Staging a “Democratic” Military Coup By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
During the 2011 Egyptian uprisings, the military was jeered for cracking down on protestors and for the infamous virginity tests they conducted on detained female protestors. In June 2012, when Mohamed Morsi won the presidential race with 51% of the votes, crowds gathered in Tahrir Square to celebrate his victory, chanting : “God is great”… Continue reading
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Neither Coup nor Revolution? Egypt’s US-Backed Deep State Reasserts Control By Finian CUNNINGHAM
The numbers and claims are conflicting, but it seems that the Egyptian army has indeed committed a cold-blooded massacre – killing between 30 and 54 people and wounding hundreds more, including children, in the capital, Cairo, according to various media sources. The bloodshed pushes the North African country to the brink of civil war, already… Continue reading
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America and the generals in Egypt moved against Morsi to prevent a popular revolution By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The Egyptian military’s removal of the Muslim Brotherhood government is seen as a military coup, or an acknowledgment of the people’s demands to remove Morsi, but it also could have been a move to pre-empt a civil war from taking place. Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Struggle for Influence in Syria By Eric Draitser
This week’s resignation of Ghassan Hitto, the so-called “Prime Minister in waiting” of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, coupled with the July 6th election of Ahmed Assi al-Jarba to head the umbrella coalition of US-supported proxy groups attempting to topple the Assad government, has revealed further cracks in the edifice of the imperialist assault on Syria. Continue reading
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‘The way forward for Egypt is to declare its independence from US’
The US gives $1.5 billion a year to the Egyptian government, and if it refused this money they would be able to follow an independent economic policy, supported by the majority of Egyptians, British journalist Neil Clark told RT. Continue reading
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‘The way forward for Egypt is to declare its independence from US’
The US gives $1.5 billion a year to the Egyptian government, and if it refused this money they would be able to follow an independent economic policy, supported by the majority of Egyptians, British journalist Neil Clark told RT. Continue reading
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Secret Meeting to Plan Renewed Rebel Offensive against Syria: Senior Intelligence Officials Meet behind Closed Doors at British Embassy in Ankara
According to a Fars News Agency report, senior intelligence officials from US-NATO and allied countries including the US, Britain, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar met on June 7, behind closed door at the residence of the British Ambassador in Ankara. Continue reading
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America’s Plan B in Egypt: Bring Back the Old Regime By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
The road that has been taken in Egypt is a dangerous one. A military coup has taken place in Egypt while millions of Egyptians have cheered it on with little thought about what is replacing the Muslim Brotherhood and the ramifications it will have for their society. Many people in cheering crowds have treated the… Continue reading
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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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Roland Dumas to SANA: West was preparing attack on Syria before crisis started
In an exclusive interview given to SANA’s correspondent in Paris, Dumas said that while he was in Britain before the crisis began in Syria, he was invited to a party where two people an Englishman and a Frenchman, asked him if he would like to participate in preparations for an attack on Syria to topple… Continue reading
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Escalation of Syria War: Ahmed Al-Assir, America’s Pawn in Lebanon By Phil Greaves
This weeks conflagration near Sidon, a majority Sunni city in the South of Lebanon has been on the cards for some time. Sheikh Al Assir, the instigator of the street battle’s with the Lebanese Armed Forces, (LAF) has been on a concerted campaign to incite sectarian strife and division between the Sunni and Shi’a sects… Continue reading
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Escalation of Syria War: Ahmed Al-Assir, America’s Pawn in Lebanon By Phil Greaves
This weeks conflagration near Sidon, a majority Sunni city in the South of Lebanon has been on the cards for some time. Sheikh Al Assir, the instigator of the street battle’s with the Lebanese Armed Forces, (LAF) has been on a concerted campaign to incite sectarian strife and division between the Sunni and Shi’a sects… Continue reading
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The Abdication of the Emir of Qatar Due to the Collapse of Anti-Syrian Forces By Dmitry MININ
Local analysts believe that the decision is a result of gathering problems with the policy the emirate has been carrying out over the last 3-4 years, especially regarding the Syria issue. The Emir does have problems with his health (he had a kidney transplant in 1997 and needs constant dialysis), but he is perfectly competent… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 June 2013
25 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade SalfitIMEMC – A number of Israeli military jeeps invaded on Tuesday at dawn [June 25 2013] the central West Bank city of Salfit, broke into homes and searched them. … Continue reading
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Lebanon is Being Prepared for Sedition as a Front in the Syrian War Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
The flames of division and fighting in Syria are being fanned into Lebanon. The US and its allies could be working with their Lebanese partners and proxies to ignite and internal conflict. The small Arab republic is politically divided and is in a governmental state of limbo. There is also a growing vacuum within the… Continue reading
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