Entries (RSS)Archive for 'Egypt'
“Beware the False Fury”
“This is a different season—this is the season of the Green Movement and the Arab Spring—do not be fooled by these zealotries of the fanatics who are trying to steal the revolution.”
Posted by Marcel Côté on 14 Sep 2012 at 17:03 under Egypt, Extremism, Iran, Politics, Religion.
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Manipulation: A Case Study
Obama now faces a battle on two fronts: first, to calm things down in the Arab world before the protests spiral out of control; and second, to figure out how to deal with a virulent Islamophobic network at home that is doing all it can to stir up trouble.
Posted by Marcel Côté on 14 Sep 2012 at 04:38 under Egypt, Extremism, Libya, Politics, Religion.
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Egypt, Too Big to Fail
If Obama sees his job as preserving the legitimacy of failed institutions above all else, I wish he would spare us the high-flown rhetoric and betrayals of hope.
Posted by Marcel Côté on 05 Feb 2011 at 15:08 under Egypt, Imperialism, Politics.
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Western “Reforms” in Egypt
“We are working closely with the military… to ensure a continuation of a dominant role of the military in the society, the polity and the economy.”
Posted by Marcel Côté on 05 Feb 2011 at 13:08 under Civil Rights, Egypt, Politics.
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Complicity
“Lurking in Egypt’s police and intelligence files are mountains of materials on significant human rights abuses…. In some of these cases, the United States government knew what was going on or had agents in the room.”
Posted by Marcel Côté on 03 Feb 2011 at 15:38 under Civil Rights, Egypt, Imperialism.
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Darkest Before Dawn
Today, foreign journalists are being attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs in Cairo, because Egyptian state TV has spread rumors that they are Israeli agents.
Posted by Marcel Côté on 03 Feb 2011 at 14:03 under Anarchy, Civil Rights, Egypt.
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Egypt After Mubarak
“President Hosni Mubarak lost his political power on Friday, 28 January…. What other forces were behind this sudden fall of Mubarak from power? And how will this transitional military-centered government get along with this millions-strong protest movement?”
Posted by Marcel Côté on 02 Feb 2011 at 16:46 under Civil Rights, Egypt, Politics.
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Democracy in Egypt?
“If you bet on individuals [like Mubarak] instead of the people, you are going to fail. And Western policy so far has been to bet on individuals, individuals who are not supported by their people and who are being discredited every day.”
Posted by Marcel Côté on 03 Apr 2010 at 11:38 under Civil Rights, Egypt, Politics.
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Congress Demands Arab Censorship
Isn’t it ironic that around the same time Hillary Clinton made a big speech defending the “freedom to connect” on the internet, Congress should be demanding that Arab states use their authority to pull independent media off the air?
Posted by Marcel Côté on 29 Jan 2010 at 09:19 under Civil Rights, Egypt, Lebanon, Media, Morocco, Politics.
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Are Emos a Threat to Egypt?
gypt’s paranoid dictatorship is trying to distract the people from its own unpopularity by cracking down on emos.
Posted by Marcel Côté on 06 May 2009 at 12:06 under Culture, Egypt, Politics.
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