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Egypt: * Region * Real Transition * Labor
JONATHAN KUTTAB Kuttab, a noted Palestinian hu…
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Military Sexual Assault Against Female Soldiers: Class Action Lawsuit Filed
AP is reporting today that a group of “17 c…
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Obama’s Budget and Women
GWENDOLYN MINK Available for a limited number o…
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Egypt: Mubarak Out, Is Democracy Coming?
Dr. AIDA SEIF EL-DAWLA El-Dawla is with the Nade…
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Budget
Gray is author of Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics and a regular contributor to The Progressive magazine and CounterPunch. He said today: “The proposed $4 trillion budget targets cutting ‘non-defense discretionary spending,’ or programs that benefit low-income Americans, which makes up less than one-quarter of the overall budget. “An earlier deal was struck to extend the Bush tax cuts for just two years, which increased the deficit by $858 billion. More than $500 billion of that deal constituted tax cuts, with billions more funding business tax breaks and a reduction in the estate tax. Roughly…
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Egypt: Lessons and Future
Porter just wrote the piece “The Triumph of Leaderless Revolutions,” which states: “‘Leaderless revolutions,’ as seen currently in North Africa, pose important challenges to outside media and to foreigners, generally, seeking authoritative voices to clarify the picture of fast-moving events. But genuine revolutions are made from below, with the myriad energies and objectives of hundreds of thousands or millions coalescing at least around certain fundamental demands. Time-constrained and impatient foreign journalists and audiences, dependent on fast analyses by the usual hierarchical menu of ‘experts’ and political leaders, naturally resist an arduous process of grassroots inquiry.”
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Egypt: The Next Move
The analysts listed below are in the U.S. and Egypt, which is 7 hours ahead of U.S. ET. For online resources see: accuracy.org/online-resources-on-egypt Dr. AIDA SEIF AL-DAWLA, Dr. MOSTAFA HUSSEIN Hussein is a doctor at Nadeem Center for Victims of Torture in Cairo; Al-Dawla is a psychiatrist with the group. She was profiled by Time magazine as a global hero in 2004.
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Egyptian Torture Victim: Suleiman “Should be Arrested”
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist and author in Sydney, Australia. He just interviewed Mamdouh Habib, an Egyptian-born Australian who wrote the book “My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn’t.” Loewenstein’s web page features audio of a new interview with Habib in which he says of Suleiman: “He should be arrested, he should be in jail, he’s a criminal. … If America supports Suleiman, people in Egypt will say Obama is a criminal.”
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Omar Suleiman, “Egypt’s Torturer-in-Chief,” Tied to False Iraq WMD Tortured “Intel”
A human rights lawyer, Katherine Hawkins has been a researcher for Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side and the new piece “Who is Omar Suleiman?” in The New Yorker Mayer writes: “Suleiman has headed the feared Egyptian general intelligence service. In that capacity, he was the CIA’s point man in Egypt for renditions — the covert program in which the CIA snatched terror suspects from around the world and returned them to Egypt and elsewhere for interrogation, often under brutal circumstances.”
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Egypt: Frank Wisner and the Nexus of U.S. Interests
Vijay Prashad recently wrote the piece “Frank Wisner in Cairo: The Empire’s Bagman.” “Both the U.S. State Department and the CIA have long used the term ‘stability’ as their preferred goal for the world order. To those who live under oppressive regimes, instability is the general course of their lives: the vagaries of poverty and police behavior coupled with corruption and incompetence. Protests such as we see in Egypt now are not instability, as far as the people are concerned, but toward the construction of a real stability. The U.S. State Department’s meaning of stability is far removed from the…
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