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Archives for July 2013
The Rebellion Movement Denounces Mansour’s Constitutional Principles as Dictatorial
If the Egyptian military and judicial elite thought that they could use the youthful Rebellion Movement, which put three or four million demonstrators in the streets a week and a half ago, to restore the status quo before the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, they probably miscalculated. Rebellion denounced as “dictatorial” interim president Adly Mansour’s Monday […]
Argentina’s President Kirchner: US Industrial Espionage gave me Chills down my Spine
The relationship between the United States and Latin America may have just plunged to its lowest level since the 1910s and 1920s, the height of US imperialism in the area, when United Fruit and the Marines imposed themselves on the region. Glenn Greenwald, Roberto Kaz and José Casado revealed in an article for the Brazilian […]
Egypt: A People’s Revolution, Not a Crisis or Coup (Nawal El Saadawi)
Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi writes at IslamiCommentary (translated by miriam cooke) Every revolution in history has had its counter-revolution. Most recently, internal and external forces allied, as they did in Egypt, to abort the January 2011 revolution. But the Muslim Brotherhood failed to abort this latest revolution on June 30, 2013, and they […]
FBI Discriminates Against American Muslims & lets White Terrorists Off the Hook (Harwood)
Matthew Harwood writes at Tomdispatch: The evangelical Christians of Greenville County, South Carolina, are afraid. There has been talk of informants and undercover agents luring young, conservative evangelicals across the South into sham terrorist plots. The feds and the area’s police want to eliminate a particularly extreme strain of evangelical Christianity opposed to abortion, homosexuality, […]
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Calls for ‘Uprising’ as Plan for Elections is Announced
The killing of over 50 Egyptians outside the Republican Guards Barracks on Monday morning continued to roil the country on Monday, as the Freedom and Justice Party, the civil wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, called for an “uprising” against the interim government. The word used for ‘uprising,’ intifada, is the same word used by Palestinians […]
Snowden: I acted because Domestic Spying actually worsened under Obama
The Guardian has released part two of the Hong Kong interview with Edward Snowden, in which he clarifies his reasons for going public. He talks about how the warrantless demand for Verizon phone records was the misuse of a USA Patriot Act provision intended to allow monitoring of an individual, but which was applied to […]
Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay Concentration Camp procedure
There are 120 prisoners at the extra-legal concentration camp at Guantanamo Bey. 44 are on hunger strike and being force-fed against their will, in contravention of international law. Rapper Yasin Bey (formerly Mos Def) demonstrates how that’s done
Egypt: Over 50 dead in Brotherhood-Army Clash; Baha-al-Din proposed PM; Thousands support Gov’t
Update: The death toll in the deadly incident outside the Republican Guards barracks in Cairo has risen to over 50, with 300 wounded. Firm details of how the clash began are still not available. The pro-Brotherhood press, such as Aljazeera, is calling it a premeditated military massacre of peaceful praying civilians. The Egyptian military maintains […]
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