A group of brave Egyptians has started a Facebook page with a view to organizing a national day of gathering in Tahrir Square to promote the rights of sexual minorities on January 1, 2012. The page currently has over 1000 followers, but as Global Voic…
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Art Threat: #Jan25: A soundtrack of the revolution – Q&A with Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum
Omar Offendum almost his train of thought when he saw a video post on his Facebook wall, mid Skype interview, of his song #Jan25 being played in Tahrir Square. It was July, months after the whirlwind revolution that brought down Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, but the as protests in the Middle East persist, Offendum’s […]
Continue readingRedBedHead: Egypt, Revolution & Islamism
Secular protesters retake Tahrir Square after Islamist’s depart. They chant
for a secular state and against the military leadership.
While outside commentators have repeatedly suggested that Egypt’s revolution has stalled or gone backwards, it seem…
RedBedHead: Workers of Egypt: Strike! Occupy! Bring revolution to victory!
This is an awesome leaflet from a section of the Egyptian left on how to drive forward the revolution. It deserves wide distribution and is a taste of the ferment that is going on in Egypt at the moment. From here in Canada it can be hard to really und…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Egypt’s Revolution Continues To Burn
Lots of people hoped that everything would return to normal after the dictator Mubarak abdicated. They hoped that once the face at the top was changed people would be happy. None wanted this more than the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (S…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Taking Sides In Syria
The article below is a reprint of a longer article by Simon Assaf, a British-Lebanese socialist, that will appear in the upcoming issue of the British magazine Socialist Review. It’s an excellent overview of the history of Syria from its founding foll…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Tahrir Square, June 28 Post-Script
Yesterday’s clashes in Tahrir square were covered here at WHR as breaking news. A more complete picture of the context and extent of the situation has emerged. As mentioned in the previous report, the protest began in Cairo as a peaceful demonstration and public mourning by the families of those
Continue readingRedBedHead: Greek Austerity Vote Is Just The Beginning
There was a certain amount of hand-wringing by the business press and politicians internationally that the PASOK government of Greece might not be able to pass the second austerity package in a year. However, it seemed unlikely that more than a handful…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Tahrir Square: Tantawi picks up where Mubarak left off
Cairo’s Tahrir square is once again tonight the scene of ordinary people making extraordinary efforts to free themselves from the militarist rentier regime still in power since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February. Earlier today in Tahrir began a protest by families of “martyrs,” which in this case refers
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Egypt Rejects IMF, Revolution Lurches Forward
by Jonathan Rashad Egyptians have evaded a great pitfall in their quest for freedom, democracy and sovereignty in their rejection this week of loan proposals from the IMF. Nations across the world, especially in Africa, have time and again during periods of turmoil been tempted into bailouts and loan deals
Continue readingRedBedHead: NATO Has Already Lost In Libya
I’m certainly not one to believe that imperialist agendas, hideous in life, won’t rise zombie-like from the grave. The present air war by NATO to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is proof enough of that. The failure of NATO in Afghanistan, after ten …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Greek Meltdown: People vs Banks
Forget the riots in Vancouver by angry hockey fans, things are really on the boil in Greece. After a year of austerity measures that have all but killed the economy and which have driven down living standards substantially, the government is coming bac…
Continue readingRedBedHead: When The Ex-Mossad Chief Thinks You’re Crazy…
This article in the New York Times is interesting. The recently retired head of the Israeli Mossad (i.e. CIA) is using his newfound civilian freedoms to run around and say that Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak are, basically, f*…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Egypt’s Shifting Geopolitical Policies: A Consequence of Democracy
The recent democratization of Egypt has resulted in a series of distinct policy changes with regards to Israel, Palestine and Iran. These changes ultimately represent a shift in Egyptian policy towards the popular opinion of many Egyptians that are bec…
Continue readingArt Threat: IDFA offers online films on “Arab Spring” – Docs on Middle East commemorate pro-democracy movement
Docs on the Middle East online for the first time.
Continue readingNo jasmine revolution for China—Pew survey
With revolution all the rage, so to speak, in the Middle East, pundits have been pondering the prospects of similar passions being sparked elsewhere. Inevitably China, the blossoming superpower on everyone’s mind, comes up for consideration. To examine…
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-03-18 01:28:00
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS: I write these words in the context of what may be a “low point” of the uprising of Arab people for the sort of “democracy” that most of us in the western world take for granted. As I …
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Egyptian Activists Expose Torture Tools and Files, Tied to US Renditions
Article by Siun , March 5, 2011 at: http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/05/egyptian-activists-expose-torture-tools-and-files-tied-to-us-renditions/ On YouTube – Activists storm Egypt torture chambers
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Egyptian Activists Expose Torture Tools and Files, Tied to US Renditions
Article by Siun , March 5, 2011 at:http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/05/egyptian-activists-expose-torture-tools-and-files-tied-to-us-renditions/On YouTube – Activists storm Egypt torture chambers
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Egyptian Activists Expose Torture Tools and Files, Tied to US Renditions
Article by Siun , March 5, 2011 at: http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/05/egyptian-activists-expose-torture-tools-and-files-tied-to-us-renditions/ On YouTube – Activists storm Egypt torture chambers
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