Feb 05 2011
John Sagherian, Regional Director for YFCI/MENA, sent an email from Beirut night before last. Attached was an earlier version of the report that follows, from his friend Nabeel Jabbour. Dr. Jabbour has just sent me an update, along with his permission to share it here on “Blues for Levantium Lost.” Regardless of the particulars (and …
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Feb 05 2011
We all helped suppress the Egyptians. So how do we change? By Johann Hari, Friday, 4 February 2011 The old slogan from the 1960s has come true: the revolution has been televised. The world is watching the Bastille fall on 24/7 rolling news. An elderly thug is trying to buy and beat and tear-gas himself enough …
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Feb 04 2011
We Are All Egyptians By Nicholas D. Kristof, February 3, 2011 Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh …
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Feb 04 2011
It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence By Noam Chomsky, Friday 4 February 2011 16.30 GMT “The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies “are quickly losing their influence.” The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove …
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Feb 02 2011
Blood and fear in Cairo’s streets as Mubarak’s men crack down on protests By Robert Fisk, Thursday, 3 February 2011 … “President” Hosni Mubarak’s counter-revolution smashed into his opponents yesterday in a barrage of stones, cudgels, iron bars and clubs, an all-day battle in the very centre of the capital he claims to rule between tens …
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Feb 02 2011
By Sadhbh Walshe, Wednesday 2 February 2011 16.05 GMT … Earlier on his own programme (view clip here), Glenn Beck had so many devils dancing around in his brain as a result of the chaos in Egypt that he was at a total loss as to who to support, who to oppose or, indeed, what …
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Feb 02 2011
Huckabee: Israel can build in West Bank, Jerusalem THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Potential 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says preventing Jewish settlers from building in east Jerusalem is as outrageous as discriminating against Americans because of their race, language or religion. Huckabee spoke at the dedication of a new Jewish neighborhood in east …
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