Feb 06 2011

Village voices

The following is in response to a guest editorial by [name deleted], in today’s “In my opinion” section of the Sentinel Record.  The full text of his “Without doubt, a Christian nation” is included in the comments…  [more]

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Feb 05 2011

Pray for Egypt

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 …  [more]

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Feb 05 2011

Why we do what we do

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…  [more]

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Feb 05 2011

Plan for the future?

Exhausted, scared and trapped, protesters put forward plan for future

By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 5 February 2011 Caged yesterday inside a new army cordon of riot-visored troops and coils of barbed wire – the very protection which Washington had demanded…  [more]

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Feb 05 2011

Rules for a revolution

Every revolution has its rules. Ignore them and the fire will burn out

By Neal Ascherson, Saturday, 5 February 2011 From Tahrir Square, television brings us two sorts of image. The close-ups of men mopping blood from their broken heads,…  [more]

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Feb 04 2011

Ehna kullina Misryeen!

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…  [more]

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Feb 04 2011

Useful gangsters

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…  [more]

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