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
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 30 2011
Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 30 January 2011 … The Egyptian tanks, the delirious protesters sitting atop them, the flags, the 40,000 protesters weeping and crying and cheering in Freedom Square and praying around them, the Muslim Brotherhood official sitting amid the tank passengers. Should this be compared to the liberation …
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Jan 30 2011
The Egyptian masses won’t play ally to Israel By Gideon Levy, published 01:55 30.01.11 Three or four days ago, Egypt was still in our hands. The army of pundits, including our top expert on Egypt, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said that “everything is under control,” that Cairo is not Tunis and that Mubarak is strong. Ben-Eliezer said …
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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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