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Month: April 2023
[ Bought to you by : ] Crisis in Egypt Dr Nigel Parsons from Massey University’s politics department is an expert on the Middle East, who’s lived and worked in Egypt. Mohammed Hassan is an Egyptian student in Auckland who helped organise a rally over the weekend. The two discuss […]
Former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs: Egyptians, Greeks, Tunisians and British Are All Protesting Against Pillaging of Their Economies Nomi Prins – former managing director of Goldman Sachs and head of the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London – notes that the Egyptian people are rebelling against being […]
Yvonne Ridley reminds us that it is US support, and US politicians putting Israel’s interests above those of their own country, that has allowed dictators such as Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to desecrate the Arab world with their existence for so long. The “Made in the USA” empty shell casings […]
Ken O’Keefe grew up in California and was in the U.S. Marines in the 1991 Gulf War. [youtube]BcVTI09T5D4[/youtube] He initiated P10K https://www.P10K.net in 2004 to recruit international observers to live side by side with Palestinians. Humanitarian Peace Activist, Anti-War, Gulf War veteran and survivor of the Mavi Marmara massacre. https://worldcitizen.uk.net/ […]
Images of the thousands of Egyptian protesters that defied a curfew in the capital Cairo and other cities taken throughout the day. [youtube]3qQTzLoKYF4[/youtube]
Repeated calls by Western leaders, including US president Barack Obama, for Egypt’s protest movement to refrain from violence are also significant. Never mind the utter hypocrisy of such exhortations by the US and other Western governments who have armed the Mubarak regime to the teeth and continue to support it […]
Luther King Jr. questioned US military interventions against progressive movements in the Third World by invoking a JFK quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Were he alive to witness the last three decades of US foreign policy, King might update that quote by noting: […]
https://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every […]
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