Feels good

It feels good to be Arab these days

By Goufrane Mansour, Thursday 3 February 2011 14.59 GMT The Arab awakening, for that is what it is, which began in Tunisia and is now gripping Egypt, has taken western…  [more]

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Are you in the West mad, too?

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,…  [more]

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Chaos!

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…  [more]

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Matthew 23 woes

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,…  [more]

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Egypt parade

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…  [more]

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Hizbullah’s man

From: Oliver Miles Sent: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 9:07 pm Subject: Lebanon MEC Analytical Group 1 February 2010 Lebanon  The Lebanese president has appointed Najib Miqati, former prime minister and billionaire, as Prime Minister after he received 68 votes in…  [more]

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On the streets of Cairo

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,…  [more]

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