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 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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Feb 02 2011
Secular and devout. Rich and poor. They marched together with one goal By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 2 February 2011… It was a victory parade – without the victory. They came in their hundreds of thousands, joyful, singing, praying, a great packed mass of Egypt, suburb by suburb, village by village, waiting patiently to pass through …
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Jan 29 2011
Arab states: a quagmire of tyranny By Soumaya Ghannoushi, Friday 28 January 2011 23.00 GMT … We are witnessing the breakdown of the Arab state after decades of failure and mounting crises. The Arab political establishment has never looked weaker than it does today. It is either dying a protracted silent death, corroded from within, or …
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Jan 29 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo5Fn1-2E8o[/tube] A people defies its dictator, and a nation’s future is in the balance By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 29 January 2011 … It might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands of Arabs braved tear gas, water cannons, stun grenades and live fire yesterday to demand the …
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