EGYPT’S “MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD” LEADERSHIP HAS PRACTICED PRECIOUS LITTLE “BROTHERHOOD” TOWARD ITS MUSLIM BRETHREN IN GAZA. The post-Mubarak regime in Egypt was elected to the immense delight of Palestinians in Gaza as elsewhere, with the expectation that the new government would cease the collaboration of Egypt in maintaining the seige of Gaza by maintaining border [...]
IS PRESIDENT OBAMA PLAYING ELECTION YEAR POLITICS WITH YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRANTS? In the razor-thin margins that will likely decide this year’s presidential election, both sides are going after every last possible vote in a bid to seize the White House. Due to their booming population and heavy concentrations in so-called “swing states” [...]
PUSSY RIOT IN RUSSIA: NOW THERE’S AN ISSUE INTO WHICH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CAN SINK ITS TEETH. Diane Johnstone examines the behavior of the international “human rights” organization in going to the defense of a feminist punk-rock band “persecuted” by the Russian government for performing an allegedly “decadent” show in a Russian cathedral in which [...]
“NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT” IS NOT STOPPED BY A HURRICANE IN TEHRAN, BUT ITS MEETING THIS WEEK MAY RAISE A MIGHTY WIND IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY. The “Atlanticist” alliance of U.S., Israel and NATO members that fancies itself as the “international community” is shaking with anger against the meeting of 120 world “non-aligned” nations in Tehran. The [...]
MARK ZUCKERBERG: “A CERTAIN MANIA AT WORK.” (Counterpunch) The young Facebook co-founder—with a movie about him in his rear view mirror and risky ventures in marriage and stock market lying ahead—approaches the future with what looks like a “juvenile business plan” that minimizes the hazards being encountered. His behavior suggests to one internet blogger that [...]
WHEN DID THE “SPONTANEOUS” ARAB SPRING TURN INTO AMERICA’s “IMPERIAL RIGHT” TO FIND “A BALANCE…BETWEEN THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES” AND THE PROTESTERS? (Salon) Glenn Greenwald viciously displays the mounting hypocrisy of the mounting U.S.-role in the latest developments to rattle the middle East in the post-Arab Spring universe. Events on the ground having gotten the best [...]
HOW IS THAT ARAB SPRING THING WORKING OUT IN EGYPT TODAY? (UK Independent) Apparently the “liberation” of that country from an “autocratic” Hosni Mubarak has descended into a winter of repression. Arab opinion is inflamed as military regime’s police violently break up anti-government protests and a video is broadcast across the Middle East of a [...]
EGYPT: DING, DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!—-WELL NOT QUITE. Last February there were huge celebrations in the streets of Cairo after mass protests resulted in power being transferred from Hosni Mubarak to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Now demonstrators have taken to the street again to protest the failure of SCAF [...]
“DEMOCRATIC” EGYPT BECOMING A THEOCRATIC EGYPT? This is the fear of many of the young secular protesters who fueled the deposing of Mubarak. The new military government has found a surprising ally in the formerly-banned Muslim Brotherhood as it struggles to return “stability” to the country. Many believe the religious fundamentalists have struck a “deal” [...]
IS A THERMIDOREAN REACTION BEGINNING TO TAKE EFFECT IN EGYPT? (Christian Science Monitor) This term, originally referring to a phase of the French revolution in which elements of the “revolutionary” government turned against the revolution (in the execution of Robespierre for example) is seemingly playing out in Egypt in which remaining elements of the deposed [...]
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