Egypt
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Russian politics: Nostalgia or a new political direction? By Eric Walberg
As Russia gears up for its election season this winter, Putin’s Popular Front and Rogozin’s nationalist front are playing an old Soviet melody and even borrowing a tune from revolutionaries in Cairo. Eric Walberg recognises the refrain Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bad News From The BBC – Part 1: ‘Replete With Imbalance And Distortion’
One of the main headlines on the BBC news homepage earlier this month read, ‘Violence erupts at Israel borders’. Israeli soldiers had shot dead at least 12 protesters and injured dozens more. BBC ‘impartiality’ decreed that the brutal killings were presented almost as an act of nature, a volcanic eruption that simply happened. Continue reading
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“Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt” – Samir Amin
Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt. The (Gaddafi) bloc in power and the forces fighting against it have no analogues in Tunisia or Egypt. Gaddafi has never been anything but a clown whose vacuous thought is reflected in the famous ‘Green Book.’ Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Humanitarian Ship to Enter Gaza Territorial Waters, Break the Blockade By Michel Chossudovsky and Julie Lévesque
23 May, 2011 — Global Research UPDATE Monday 23 May At 8.33am EDT (14.33pm local time) The Spirit of Rachel Corrie lifted anchor and started sailing towards Gaza. UPDATE: 9:53pm EDT, Egypt time 3:53pm “The Egyptian Navy is forcing us out of their territorial waters and has asked us to go to international waters. One Egyptian… Continue reading
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Spain Newslinks 19-22 May 2011
22 May 2011 — williambowles.info 22 May 2011 BBC: Spanish polls open amid protests Spain is voting in regional elections overshadowed by mass protest rallies in cities across the country.” Elections in Spain underway after massive protests His government has been squeezed by Spain’s 21% unemployment rate, the highest in Western Europe, and a financial… Continue reading
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The Middle East Revolution: The Empire Strikes Back: Libya Attacked by the US and NATO By Asad Ismi
The Western attack on Libya is motivated mainly by the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions taking those countries out of Washington’s control. This created the need for a military base from which to contain those revolutions, which Libya is perfect for, since it borders both of these countries. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 May, 2011: Amnesty International Calls For Investigation Into Nakba Killings
18 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Prison Protest Expands IMEMC – Wednesday May 18, 2011 – 18:33, Protests against conditions in Israeli jails have continued recently, with two additional institutions joining the hunger-strikers’ action. Continue reading
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Egypt's Christians Blame Army after Sectarian Violence By Simon Hanna
Coptic anger turns on the army after bloody sectarian violence gripped Cairo. The clashes between Muslims and Christians in Imbaba left at least 12 dead. Two churches were torched. It’s the latest in a string of sectarian incidents since Egypt’s revolution, which left the army in interim charge of the country. Continue reading
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Those Libyan “Freedom Fighters”: The Fix is On By Kevin Carson
So the head of the opposition movement is on the CIA payroll, and the first order of business of the insurgent regime is to create a central bank that takes orders from international finance capital. Doesn’t look real good for ‘freedom’ in Libya, does it? Looks pretty damn good for the banksters, though. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 May, 2011: Israeli Officials Call For “Reoccupying” the West Bank
8 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Detained Legislator Receives Extended Administrative Detention Order IMEMC – Monday May 09, 2011 – 02:23, The Israeli Prison Authorities decided to renew the administrative detention order against elected legislator, Dr. Mahmoud Al Ramahi, for additional six months. Al Ramahi was placed under administrative detention,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 May, 2011: Egypt and Israel Heading for Crisis
5 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hamas To Allow Fateh Leaders To Travel To Ramallah IMEMC – Friday May 06, 2011 – 02:11, The Hamas-led government in Gaza retracted, on Tuesday evening, a previous decision preventing Fateh leaders from leaving the Gaza Strip to attend an official meeting of the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 April, 2011: Lieberman indictment imminent
11 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu: “Gaza Flotilla, A Provocation” IMEMC – Tuesday April 12, 2011 – 04:59, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed Monday that the Freedom Flotilla solidarity ships, planning to send aid and humanitarians supplies to the Gaza Strip, are a provocation that must be stopped. Continue reading
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You didn’t need to be an expert on Libya to know which way the wind was blowing By Max Ajl
This is not a nya-nya-I-was-right-you-were-wrong point. Except in the psychedelic hallucinations of former Arab leftists, now heading stage-right destination Christopher Hitchens-ville, and Juan Cole, who should shut up, this intervention will not embolden Arab revolutionaries. Skip the Arab summer. The people running the show in Brussels, Riyadh, Qatar, and Washington want to usher us in… Continue reading
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Uprisings in Southern Africa
30 March, 2011 — The Real News Netywork Firoze Manji: Democratic uprisings brutally suppressed in many African countries Transcript Continue reading
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Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons? By Prof. Peter Dale Scott
The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle East. What began as a memorable, promising, relatively nonviolent achievement of New Politics – the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt – has morphed very swiftly into a recrudescence of old habits: America, already mired in two decade-long wars… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks for 24 March 2011
24 March 2011 — williambowles.info U.S. Says Egypt Vote Shouldn’t Be Rushed Wall Street Journal By ADAM ENTOUS CAIRO—US Defense Secretary Robert Gates gently prodded Egypt’s interim leaders not to rush to new elections, saying the new political movements that helped push longtime President Hosni Mubarak from power in February need time to … india.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703362904576218872404821988.html Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 March, 2011: Knesset Passes “Nakba” and “Segregation” Laws
23 March, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Before Flying To Moscow, Netanyahu Approves Further Strikes In Gaza IMEMC – Wednesday March 23, 2011 – 23:05, Israeli sources reported Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip before he headed to Russia. Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war 24 March 2011
24 March 2011 — Stop NATO New U.S.-NATO Strikes Kill Libyan Civilians, Including Rescue Workers Libyan Quagmire Could Drag More U.S. Forces In White House Hands Libyan War Command And Control To NATO How “Humanitarian” Is Western Intervention In Libya? AFRICOM Chief Visits 14-Nation Libyan War Air Operations Center In Germany Egypt: Pentagon Chief Gates… Continue reading
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Post-Gaddafi Govt. Selected / 1994 US ‘hosted’ Libyan Exile Post-Qaddafi Conference / About Lockerbie
23 March 2011 — Burbank Digest US ‘hosts’ support for spontaneous popular revolt 17 yrs. ago January 1994 Libyan Exiles Debate Post-Qaddafi Era www.washington-report.com/component/content/article/152/7370-libyans-debate-post-qaddafi-era.html Nov. 28-29, 1994, Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a conference on “Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Prospect and The Promise.” The conference was unique in that all of the… Continue reading
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