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  • 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.…

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  • 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]

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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:

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  • 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…

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  • Will Congress Finally Stop U.S. Support for Saudi’s War in Yemen?

    The group signed a letter along with 105 other organizations recently in support of the Sanders legislation: “March 26th, 2022, marked the start of the eighth year of the Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen, which has helped cause the deaths of nearly half a million people and pushed millions more to the edge of…

  • Big Pharma’s Big-Money Business Model for the Pandemic

    Fresh analysis from the New Institute for Economic Thinking finds that drug prices will remain out of reach for Americans until pharmaceutical companies sever executive pay from stock price performance and the companies are banned from stock buybacks.

  • Nobel Peace Prize Purpose: Ending War or Taking Sides?

    PBS reports: “Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner works to hold Russia accountable for atrocities.” The Ukraine-based Center for Civil Liberties will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway this Saturday. Other awardees are Ales Bialiatski from Belarus and the Russian organization Memorial, which was founded when the Soviet Union ended to document abuses under Stalin. FREDRIK…

  • Nursing Home Deaths Remain High

    Nursing home deaths have remained high while older Amercians’ rates of receiving Covid boosters have been lower than expected.

  • Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Congress Giving it Billions More

    Congress stands ready to give a big raise to an agency that failed to account for more than 60 percent of its assets.

  • Why are 9 out of 10 Covid Deaths Among Americans 65+?

    Although adults over the age of 65 make up only 16 percent of the U.S. population, they account for nearly 90 percent of current Covid deaths. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field weighs in on why.

  • Study Links Paid Sick Leave and Higher Vaccination Rates

    A new study finds that vaccination rates may be 17 percent higher in cities with paid sick leave policies compared to cities without such policies. 

  • U.S. Pouring Gasoline on Ukraine Fire, Risking Armageddon

    In his latest article “Ukraine War Evolves: Slouching Toward Armageddon”, Professor Falk harkens back to the Yalta Agreement on maintaining spheres of influence, and how a self-censoring Western media has propogated state propaganda as the US continues to torpedo any attempts at a resolution to the conflict.

  • Predicted Spill of Toxic Foam in Hawaii Highlights Dangers

    Elder’s team documented high levels of PFAS draining into the water at Honolulu earlier this year.

  • Global Covid Mortality Rates Obscure Actual Loss of Life

    Philip Schellekens argues that reported Covid-19 mortality rates suggest that the pandemic has been “mild” in developing countries––but further examination leads to exactly the opposite conclusion.

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