Egypt
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 25 August 2013: Testimonies: Systematic abuse, beatings and threats against Palestinian children
25 August 2013 —VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Injured Near JerusalemIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man was injured in the foot, on Saturday evening [August 2r, 2013] when an Israeli soldier raised a spike strip as the young man was stepping on it. … Continue reading
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Obama keeps hold of the Syrian ball By M K Bhadrakumar
Moscow now admits that the current controversy over the chemical weapons attacks near Damascus might be a pre-meditated one choreographed carefully with a political objective. But then, it is too late, since it emerges that Sellstrom is unbound already and is at large, and Moscow cannot easily circumscribe his future activities in Syria. Continue reading
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Yinon’s Revenge? A Panoramic of Chaos in the Arab World By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
The Middle East and North Africa have been turned into an arc of instability all the way from Iraq and the Persian Gulf to Libya and Tunisia. Chaos and violence seem to be in almost every corner of the Arab World and the Middle East. The bloodletting does not seem to stop. One country in… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 24 August 2013: Confessions at Any Price: Patterns of Torture and Abuse by Israeli Officials
24 August 2013—VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterJerusalem Child Forced Under House ArrestIMEMC – The District Police in occupied East Jerusalem released on Friday evening [August 23, 2013] a Palestinian child after detaining him for two days, and ordered him under house arrest. … Continue reading
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Deaths on the Nile: Is Egypt’s revolution following the course of Iran’s? BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
Now that the Egyptian Army has decided to break the stalemate and cleanse the public space of Islamist protesters, and the result is hundreds of deaths, one should first just imagine what an uproar this would have caused if the same bloodbath were to happen, say, in Iran. However, it is more urgent to take… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-24 August 2013: Syria / Iran / Eurasia /Egypt / Lebanon / Europe / Greece
24 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Chemicals Seep Through the Cracks in Western-led Axis Against Syria 24.08.2013 | 09:31 | Finian CUNNINGHAM A recurring pattern throughout the Syrian crisis is the coincidence of massacres suspiciously at times when there is a shift in the political backdrop. This is important to bear in mind when assessing Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 23 August 2013: Authorities threaten displaced community’s return to village
23 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFrench FM To Meet Abbas, NetanyahuIMEMC – The French Foreign Ministry has reported that Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, will be visiting the Israel and the Palestinian territories to encourage the recently resumes peace talks between Ramallah and Tel Aviv. … Continue reading
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ICH 23 August 2013: Growing Calls For Attack On Syria Follow Chemical Weapons Claims
23 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Chemical Attack: ‘Rough Work’ of Syrian Opposition By Andrey Fedyashin Russia has declared that according to its information, chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus had been used (on August 21) by opposition militants, and not the regime of President Bashar al- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35945.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 22 August 2013: Why won’t BBC let Nigel Kennedy denounce Israeli apartheid?
22 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAbbas: “We Will Not Demand To Return To Akka, Safad and Jaffa”IMEMC – During a meeting with members of the Israeli Meretz opposition Party, who visited him Thursday in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the Palestinian Authority will not Continue reading
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ICH 22 August 2013: Gangster State US/UK
22 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Egypt is Becoming a Proxy Conflict By Max Fisher It’s not an all-out proxy conflict as in Syria, but it’s hard to miss the pattern. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35933.htm Continue reading
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Egypt’s ‘color coup’ By Eric Walberg
The military cheered the opposition Tamarod movement on—no limits to their demonstrations—providing the pretext for the coup, employing standard Great Game tactics as used in Iran (1953), Brazil (1964) and Chile (1973). (Ironically, just this week the CIA finally admitted its role in Iran in 1953.) Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 21 August 2013: It was all part of the plan
21 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade Village Near Nablus, Kidnap Five PalestiniansIMEMC – Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday evening, the village of Beita south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped five Palestinians; clashes and injuries have been reported. … Continue reading
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ICH 201 August 2013: The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
20 August 2013 — Information Clearing House How Some Ordinary Egyptians Became ‘Malicious Terrorists’ By Robert Fisk It is true that gunmen have fired from Brotherhood crowds. A handful at most – and it does not justify the Egyptian press calling tens of thousands of people “terrorists” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35922.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 20 August 2013: Erasing Palestine From the Map
20 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Install Mobile Homes On Palestinian Lands In Al-KhaderIMEMC – Ahmad Salah, an activist against Israel s illegal settlements and its apartheid wall in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, stated Tuesday [August 20, 2013] that a number of settlers installed mobile homes on lands that belong to Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 19 August 2013: Despite outcry, EU guidelines on settlements will have little effect
19 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center“Tamarrod” Calls For Rebelling Against Hamas In GazaIMEMC – The group said it would not resort to guns and violence in its rebellion A Gaza-based group known as “Tamarrod”, Arabic for Rebellion, published a video through its Facebook page, and other social media outlets, stating that November Continue reading
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ICH 19 August 2013: Congresswomen’s Voicemail: Where’s My Bribe?
19 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Egypt: From Anarchy to Insanity Needs Global Intervention By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. Military dictators have replaced Pharaoh to make Egypt a land of unpredictable warring people. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35910.htm Continue reading
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Egypt's Sisi banishes wild dogs By M K Bhadrakumar
It doesn’t look good for the bedraggled Syrian dogs of war, now that Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattel al-Sisi has ordered Syrian National Council leaders to leave Cairo. They aren’t going to be safe in Istanbul either. With strange things beginning to happen all over the Middle East, it looks like the Syrian-regime-hugging Russian bear is… Continue reading
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Egypt in the Calculations of Regional and Global Political Powers By Nikolai MALISHEVSKI
According to a widespread theory, the events which led to Mubarak’s resignation took the form of a flashmob with the active use of the blogoshpere and Americans recruiting Internet bloggers who are oriented toward the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact such an explanation for what is happening in a country where even according to official figures… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 18 August 2013: Being honest about the dominant Zionist narrative
18 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Invades Aida Refugee Camp In BethlehemIMEMC – [Sunday August 18, 2013] Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, and clashes with dozens of local youths, local sources have reported. … Continue reading
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