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  • Uprisings: Online Resouces

    With protests continuing, here is a partial list of online resources: For Libya: #Feb17; CNN’s Ben Wedeman; @EnoughGaddafi; For Bahrain: #Feb14, @OnlineBahrain; For Yemen: #Feb3; @JNovak_Yemen; Palestinian: #Mar15 Gulf: @dr_davidson, @tobycraigjones For Saudi Arabia: on Twitter: #Mar11; Webpages and blogs: rasid.com, ysoof.com/blog/?p=242, saudiwoman.wordpress.com, alasmari.wordpress.com, saudijeans.org To translate: translate.google.com Based in the U.S., but with extensive contacts…

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  • “A New Bipartisan Consensus Against Low Income People”

    The president’s budget is a prosaic austerity plan that inflicts disproportionate pain on low income Americans. Fundamental questions about the costs of war and the fairness of tax cuts for the rich have been avoided by the decision to narrowly target non-security “discretionary” spending to bear the weight of deficit reduction. It used to be…

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  • Challenges for Change in Algeria

    Tunisia and Egypt are relatively centralized states, Algeria not so, neither politically, nor culturally, nor geographically. Historically, the interior has been difficult to control, and there is no guarantee that the rest of the country would rally to the protests taking place in the capital as in the case of Egypt. The Algerian regime is…

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  • “Mubarak has fallen. The regime didn’t”

    CAIRO — Mubarak has fallen. The regime didn’t. We still have the same cabinet appointed by [Mubarak]. The emergency state is still enforced. Old detainees are still in detentions and new ones since the 25th of January remain missing. There is no public apology for the killing. We hear several executives are being prosecuted, including…

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  • Time to forge new, democratic system

    CAIRO — Last night, February 11, Cairo was the scene of what may well have been the largest street party in world history.  It was incredibly powerful and moving.  Of course, the night’s festivities marked both an end and a beginning. Now is the time for Egypt’s judges, other legal professionals, diplomats, other negotiators, intellectuals,…

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  • Our Man in Cairo

    With Mubarak’s departure, the focus now falls on his chosen successor, Omar Suleiman. According to a classified American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, Suleiman was Israel’s pick to succeed Mubarak. But there’s little doubt that he was also the choice of the United States, or at least of one particular American agency with which he…

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  • Online Resources on Egypt and Beyond

    With protests against the Egyptian regime continuing, here is a partial list of resources: A critical Facebook page is “We are all Khaled Said” — also see the associated webpage elshaheeed.co.uk. (For background on Khaled Said, see IPA news release.) See: egyprotest-defense.blogspot.com; live updates at guardian.co.uk; Al-Jazeera English live blog and video, or via YouTube:…

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  • Hungry Gazans Feed Egyptian Troops

    RAFAH, Feb 9, 2011 (IPS) – Mustapha Suleiman, 27, from J Block east of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, crosses through gaps in the iron fence on the border carrying bread, water, meat cans and a handful of vegetables for Egyptian soldiers stationed on the other side. [See at Inter Press Service]

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  • Egypt’s military-industrial complex

    With US-made tear gas canisters fired on protesters in Cairo, Washington’s role in arming Egypt is under the spotlight In early January 2010, Bob Livingston, a former chairman of the appropriations committee in the US House of Representatives, flew to Cairo accompanied by William Miner, one of his staff. The two men were granted meetings…

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  • Uprising Pays Off -– Sort of

    Today I went to a town only 23 kilometers south of Tahrir Square. The plan was to see if the 11-day uprising in Egypt has produced any benefits so far – just by way of finding something different from the insecurity and chaos in Cairo. Kirdasa, a small town known for its flower nurseries and…

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  • Oil-for-Food: The Real Scandal

    JOY GORDON Gordon has written extensively on the Oil-for-Food program, including articles in Harper’s Magazine and Le Monde Diplomatique. She said today: “The Volcker Committee’s final report focuses a great deal on improprieties that had little impact on the Oil-for-Food program. Where it adds up the actual money involved, it finds that the amount of…

  • Devastation and Reconstruction of New Orleans

    JORDAN FLAHERTY Flaherty is a union organizer from New Orleans and editor of Left Turn magazine. He wrote the article “Notes from Inside New Orleans,” and a series of follow-up pieces about the devastation and prospects for reconstruction in New Orleans. He is now in Tennessee. More Information CURTIS MUHAMMAD Muhammad is co-founder of Community…

  • Beyond the Political Spin: New Orleans Realities

    ROBIN ROCQUE Rocque said today: “I’m one of the fortunate. My family evacuated New Orleans early Sunday morning, before the horror. We sat in my uncle’s living room, in Arcadia, La., and stared at the television. I am a native New Orleanian and I had a difficult time identifying my city’s landmarks through water and…

  • New Orleans Disaster: Where’s the National Guard?

    NANCY LESSIN Lessin is a founder of Military Families Speak Out. She said today: “The numbers we have are that there are 11,000 National Guard personnel from Louisiana, of whom about 3,000 are in Iraq with most of the heavy equipment. This included generators and high-water and other vehicles which could assist with the rescue…

  • The Neglected Levees of New Orleans: A Victim of Iraq War Spending

    “It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security…

  • Katrina: · Global Warming · Homeland Security

    ROSS GELBSPAN Today’s Boston Globe features a piece by Gelbspan titled “Katrina’s Real Name” in which he writes: “The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming. When the year began with a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming. “When…

  • Back to School — Military Recruitment

    RICK JAHNKOW Jahnkow works with two San Diego-based organizations: the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities as well as the Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft. He said today: “The Pentagon is having major shortfalls recruiting people. … High school students are getting a distorted picture of the military and war from recruiting ads…

  • Robertson and Chavez: Deeper Issues

    A full transcript and video of Pat Robertson’s recent statement advocating the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are available at Media Matters. The following are available for interviews: Rev. GRAYLAN SCOTT HAGLER Rev. Hagler has written the article “Pat Robertson Is Not a Christian.” He is national president of Ministers for Racial, Social and…

  • Critical Analysis on Iraq

    GREG ROLLINS A member of the Christian Peacemaker Team, Rollins has just returned from a three-month stay in Iraq, his fourth visit to that country. He has written several articles including “The Other Iraq,” “A Police State” and “Life in the Green Zone.” More Information DANIEL ELLSBERG Ellsberg is author of the book Secrets: A…

  • * Kofi Annan in Niger * What About Mali?

    U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is touring famine-stricken Niger today. KEVIN PHELAN In a statement released today, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Doctors Without Borders stated: “Recently-begun food distributions in Niger are not reaching those with the greatest needs, especially children under five years of age in the worst-affected areas. … The U.N. was slow to…

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