Egypt

NOVANEWS   by crescentandcros Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer www.activistpost.com After the corporate owned media’s failed attempt in February 2011 to portray the Libyan unrest as “unarmed protesters” being brutalized by Qaddafi, reports began trickling in of what was actually a full-scale rebellion with weapons coming across the border from Egypt. These reports are now confirmed, as large scale operations to supply the rebels with weapons have now been admitted by both the US and Egyptian governments. The Wall Street Journal, quoting a “senior US official,” claimed that the latest Egyptian operation to arm Libyan rebels had started several days ago and is ongoing. The WSJ reiterates what many globalist think-tanks have been saying all along, that the operation to overth...

NOVANEWS Dear all, I send you below an article by Egyptian conscientious objector Maikel Nabil on the situation in Egypt. I haven't managed to read it myself yet, but I'm sure it's an interesting perspective. It is taken from http://www.maikelnabil.com/2011/03/army-and-people-wasnt-ever-one-hand.html Best wishes, Andreas Activists tortured and Killed by the Army, Even after Mubarak’s resigning (A study supported with documents) The army and the people wasn’t ever one hand Is The Egyptian Army Standing Beside the Revolution? On the 11th of February 2011, after the President’s stepping down speech that was delivered by Omar Suliman (Vice-President of the Republic, and the former head of the Egyptian intelligence), many Egyptian powers rushed into declaring the victory and the end of t...

NOVANEWS   By Eric Walberg There is a Russian proverb: only a fool learns from his own mistakes. As Georgia’s foreign minister visits his Egyptian counterpart, there are lessons for Egypt in similar revolutions in eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, notes Eric Walberg. Central to Egypt’s revolution was a tiny group of Serbian activists Otpor (resistance), who adapted nonviolent tactics in the late 1990s and successfully forced Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic to resign in 2000. Egyptian youth in the 6 April Youth Movement even adopted their clenched fist symbol, bringing Otpor once again into world headlines and TV screens. It was the 2008 strike El-Mahalla El-Kubra to protest high food prices and low wages that brought about this unforeseen Serbian-Egyptian alliance. ...

NOVANEWS   IT IS A MOMENTOUS EVENT Such a moment occurs when the governed refuse to be ruled as they had been and when the rulers can no longer govern in the same manner. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi MP Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi The rush and tumult of events makes it hard, sometimes, to draw the most important general conclusions from their significance. This said, the revolutionary tidal wave, which began in Tunisia and Algeria, reached its crest in Egypt and is currently sweeping other countries such as Libya and Bahrain, offers a unique opportunity to watch how people can reshape history as they reconstruct their fates and futures. It also offers a rare scientific window to observe the birth of the new from the old and to study a moment of qualitative transformation that culminated from...

NOVANEWS   As’ad AbuKhalil is attacking Amira Hass here: Amira Hass wants Egyptians to roll out the red carpet for her "While In Cairo, I finally found out that Israel is an occupying state. This is thanks to all those people who refused to meet with an Israeli journalist. In this way, my three-week stay in revolutionary Cairo turned into an adventure of seek bypass routes, and not without a great deal of professionalfrustration."  Good for you, Egyptian people. (thanks Ali) Everyone knows that the Israeli left is feeble. Everyone knows that Zionism is hegemonic amongst Israeli Jews. We also know that the Israeli radical left gets over-promoted, and that people, especially left-liberal Americans and Europeans, are quite desperate to hear rustlings of change from within Israeli s...

NOVANEWS   source--www.thepassionateattachment.com watch?v=3VjNM1spIow&feature=player_embedded On January 12, 2009, US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman joined a group of Egyptian political bloggers from the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo. Less than two months earlier, Glassman and Jared Cohen from the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff had given an on-the-record briefing on the State Department’s alliance with ten partners in the private sector—including Facebook, Google, MTV, AT&T, Howcast, Access 360 Media—to form the Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM). During the briefing, Glassman singled out Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement for special mention, saying that some of its members would be in attendance at t...

NOVANEWS   by crescentandcross     Source–http://thepassionateattachment.com   From the New York Times: “[Obama] got on the right side of this thing when a lot of the foreign policy establishment was cautioning otherwise,” said Robert Kagan, a Brookings Institution scholar who long before the revolution helped assemble a nonpartisan group of policy experts to press for democratic change in Egypt. “And he got it right. This may strengthen his confidence the next time this kind of thing happens.” Kagan, who co-founded the Project for a New American Century with William Kristol in 1997, was joined on that “nonpartisan group” by PNAC founding member Elliott Abrams and PNAC deputy director Ellen Bork. Bork is currently “democracy and human rights” director at PNAC’s successor, Foreign Poli...

NOVANEWS By:Khalid Iqbal                                                                                        Interestingly, the fall of the Mubarak regime coincided with the day, twenty one years ago, when Nelson Mandela was released from 27 years long internment. This was also the day when Shah of Iran’s tyrannical regime collapsed, thirty two years ago. However, anatomy of Egyptian revolution is unique. It was contagious, spontaneous, leaderless, yet very powerful. Rapid mass mobilization overtook the traditional pillars of political and religious leadership of Egypt. Before the native leaders could come out of their slumber, it was all over. Western intelligence agencies failed to predict it, almost replicating the way as these outfits had failed to forecast the collapse of Shah...

NOVANEWS By Ayesha T Villalobos The revolutionary upheaval in Egypt has brought millions of workers, youth and professionals into the streets to demand the removal of the U.S.-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak. . Egypt’s mass outbreak was inspired by the earlier mass demonstrations, strikes and rebellions in Tunisia “In December, a young man, Mohammed Bouazizi, set himself ablaze in the town of Sidi Bouzid after Tunisian police barred him from selling fruit without a permit. The dramatic death resulted to weeks of unrest”that  finally resulted to the abdication of onelong-time autocratic client of the United States, Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to ask for refuge in Saudi Arabia, another imperialist supporter in the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to the uprisings in Tunisia and Egyp...

NOVANEWS             Gaza Strip, Pro-Zionist Egyptian runing Dogs decided Tuesday to open Rafah border crossing, the only entrance to the besieged Gaza Strip, after being shut for a month due to Egypt revolution that led to the resignation  of  Zionist Hosni Mu-Barak. Ayoup Abu Sha’r said to local sources “ Rafah crossing would be opened to allow the departure of 300 travelers per day from Gaza Strip until the opening of the crossing as normal. The association of crossings in Gaza  announced Saturday that temporary measures would be taken to  facilitate the citizens’ movement from Gaza Strip to Egyptian territories in both directions via Rafah border crossing. Pointing out that measures would be conducted for those wishing urgently to leave Gaza for medical treatment or education. Th...