accuracy.org

Blog

  • Mubarak, Army, U.S., Israel vs Egyptian People

    [As government forces have attacked peaceful protesters in Tahrir Square, Emad Mekay from Cairo reports] Mubarak is clearly backed by the Americans. He took some moves after speaking with Obama and a visit by a former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner. Mubarak, the army, the Americans and the Israelis are clearly on one side.…

    Read more »

  • Unrest Spreads to Sinai

    A Bedouin youth casually spreads out a piece of cloth before a police headquarters in Sheikh Zwayyed town in Sinai, the vast desert area to the east of Cairo across the Suez. “I will leave when Mubarak leaves,” he says. [Full piece from Inter Press Service]

    Read more »

  • Chomsky: Strategic and Economic Objectives, Not Anti-Islamization, Drives U.S. Policy

    [While many are claiming that a central goal of U.S. policy is to minimize influence of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Noam Chomsky contributed this to our blog] It is well-established, including the major scholarly literature, that the U.S. supports democracy if and only if that accords with strategic and economic objectives.  Following…

    Read more »

  • An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

    ————————————————————————————————————————— [To sign; for recent news releases on Egypt from the Institute for Public Accuracy] Dear President Obama: As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping…

    Read more »

  • Report from Cairo

    From Alex Ortiz in Cairo: “The army is beginning to come into Cairo … tens of thousands converged in midan al-gala’ coming from three different protest marches. Total communication blackout. Reports of senior police officers ordering their men to stand down and not beat or fire tear gas at protesters in Midan al-gala an hour…

    Read more »

  • Report on Latest from Cairo

    CAIRO, Egypt [11 p.m. local time] — 1-Some government media figures appear to be joining ranks with the protesters. Mahmoud Saad, a talk show host in the Egyptian state-run TV, has announced that he will no longer appear on TV starting tonight after he came under pressure from top government officials to report “untruths” about…

    Read more »

  • Police in Cairo Beating up Jounalists

    [From 9:28 a.m. ET]: Police started beating up journalists protesting outside the Press Syndicate in downtown Cairo. They beat up women journalists too who were screaming and crying for help. “Do not club women. Do not club women,” some of the men rushed to the police asking them not to target women. “You’ll make things…

    Read more »

  • From Alex Ortiz in Cairo

    [The Egyptian government has apparently block Twitter, Facebook (as of Wed. morn U.S. ET) and other internet tools, though apparently some people are able to get around such restrictions. Email from 8:45 a.m. ET:] Downtown Cairo today remains in a state of high alert. There are many security forces and plainsclothed policemen visible on every…

    Read more »

  • Video from Cairo

    Phone lines are intermittent and Twitter has reportedly been blocked in Egypt. Here is a live video feed: ustream.tv/channel/cairodowntown [update: ustream has been blocked, streaming now intermittently at livestream.com/cairowitness — further update, now at: www.justin.tv/cairowitness] Here is a YouTube video from earlier today:

    Read more »

  • Ukraine’s Assault on a Free Press

    In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi — known for its independent investigative style — is under intense legal pressure, with its owner not part of Ukraine’s power circles. TVi faces a court hearing on Tuesday over a legal claim that the station’s…

    Read more »

  • Iranian Election Stolen?

    PATRICK DOHERTY, via Kate Brown Deputy director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, Doherty co-wrote today’s Washington Post piece “The Iranian People Speak” with Ken Ballen of Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion. The piece states: “The election results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people.…

  • Does the AMA Represent Doctors?

    President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at the American Medical Association in Chicago on Monday. AARON CARROLL, M.D., M.S. Lead author of a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on doctors’ views on a national health program, Carroll is associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Health Policy and…

  • Soldier Refusing Deployment to Afghanistan

    VICTOR AGOSTO Available for a limited number of interviews, Agosto, a soldier based at Fort Hood in Texas, is publicly refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He recently wrote on military forms: “There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral and unjust. It does not make the American people any…

  • Iranian Election

    MUHAMMAD SAHIMI Sahimi is professor of chemical engineering at the University of Southern California. Several of his articles about the election are available here. He also recently wrote a New York Times oped titled “Iran’s Power Struggle.” He contrasted Iran’s election system with U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. NIKI AKHAVAN Akhavan is…

  • Holocaust Museum Shooting

    LEONARD ZESKIND Zeskind is author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. More Information DAVID NEIWERT Neiwert is author of the just-released book The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right as well as three other books on right-wing extremism and its effects on…

  • $200 Billion Supplemental: * Afghanistan * IMF and European Banks

    The current version of the supplemental spending bill contains about $100 billion for war in Iraq and Afghanistan and also about $100 billion for the IMF. A House vote in May passed with overwhelming Republican support and 51 Democrats voting against — but this did not include the IMF funding, which Republicans are opposing. This…

  • Congress Hears Single Payer

    On Wednesday, a House subcommittee dealing with health is scheduled to hold a hearing titled “Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option” at 10:30 a.m. Also on Wednesday, there will be a briefing on healthcare reform, “How Do We Pay For It?” at 2237 Rayburn House Office Building at 1:30 p.m. Interviews are available with…

  • Hamas Letter to Obama

    Obama administration envoy George Mitchell is traveling to the Mideast. Rep. Donna Edwards recently returned from Gaza. As Obama was traveling to Cairo, the Palestinian group Hamas, which won the most recent Palestinian election, sent a letter to President Obama through the feminist peace group CODEPINK, which just had a delegation in Gaza. Here is…

  • European Perspectives: * Foreign Policy * Economy

    PATRICK SEALE Seale is a British journalist now living in France and a leading expert on the Mideast. His books include Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East. His most recent piece is titled “A New Middle East Alliance.” More Information ALBERT SCHARENBERG Scharenberg is a lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the…

  • Obama in 2002 on Egypt and Saudi Arabia

    “Let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells.” — Barack Obama,…

Mastodon