Egypt

NOVANEWS THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMMIN’…EVEN WORSE THAN THIS ONE “The son would kill more, millions in fact, rig two elections and run up more national debt in a single month than Jimmy Carter did in four years.  America would have its own GESTAPO, called “Homeland Security” but managed by his good friends in Israel, cementing their partnership with what was once the party of Reagan, now running America into the ground, from “triple crown winner” to “glue factory nag” in 8 long and painful years.” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Political dialog in America is a sick joke.  Only Ron Paul ever talks about issues and can’t move in Washington without continual snickering behind his back.  He is seen as a joke, a caricature, a anachronism, part of the “lunatic fringe” of “conspiracy the...

NOVANEWS The anti-dictatorial moment is only the first phase of a prolonged struggle toward definitive emancipation not only in Egypt but throughout the Arab world. The outcome depends on the degree to which the masses develop their own independent organization and leaders. By Prof. James Petras Introduction To understand the Obama regime’s policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context.  The essential point is that Washington, after several decades of being deeply embedded in the state structures of the Arab dictatorships, from Tunisia through Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, is attempting to re-orient its policies to incorporate and/or graft liberal-electoral politi...

NOVANEWS   by Adam Morrow By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO; Feb 8, 2011 (Veterans Today) — Whoever comes out on top after the dust settles in Egypt, one thing’s for certain: the political equation in the Middle East — characterized for decades by Israeli regional hegemony — will never be the same again. Along with being the Arab world’s most populous country, with a majority-Muslim population of more than 80 million, Egypt represents a strategic bridge between Asia and Africa. What’s more, Egypt — Washington’s best friend in the region after Israel — also controls the Suez Canal, a vital means of transit both for international commerce and US naval forces in the Middle East. And, perhaps most importantly for neoconservative policymakers in Washington, Egypt shares a 260-...

NOVANEWS As Tahrir Square goes so goes the Middle East?     by Franklin Lamb, Al Manar Beirut It is difficult to overstate the potential for Egyptian citizens advancing universal aspirations for freedom, dignity and basic human rights now spreading from the determination of those who for more than a week have risked their lives while inspiring much of the World at Cairo’s Tahrir (“Liberation”) Square.  Tahrir public plaza near central Cairo has been the traditional site for numerous major protests and demonstrations over the years, including during the 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots and the March 2003 protests against the American war in Iraq. Washington DC and Tel Aviv are reportedly shocked by the rapidly unfolding and unpredictable revolution. One can quickly recall a long list of geographi...

NOVANEWS  Videos of women protestors and other recommended Egypt sources. Interview with Hamas spokesman about Egypt revolution More Recent Articles Search The Only Democracy? Videos of women protestors and other recommended Egypt sources.   One of my sources sends the following recommendation for on-the-ground  reports from Egypt. Here  are  three  of  the many women  of  the  Egyptian Revolution – that will counter some of those images of passive Muslim women. Change in the Middle East is being pushed forward by women like Mona, Asma, Sarah, etc., too, and they are not few. There  are  many  more  women  who  are actively shaping the revolution,  who  are  blogging,  twittering,  writing,  vlogging etc. about it here, and who have been w...

NOVANEWS Interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy by Mélanie Souad and Kevin Vay  Yoshie Furuhashi has posted another interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy at MRZine: Hossam el-Hamalawy is a member of the organization Revolutionary Socialists as well as of the Center for Socialist Studies in Cairo.  A journalist and blogger, he is one of the "cyberguerrilla" youth at the heart of the revolutions underway in the Arab world.  While constantly occupying Tahrir Square, he seeks to regularly disseminate alternative information to the whole world, via his blog, his Twitter account, and his Facebook page.  He agreed to answer some of our questions by phone on Sunday, 6 February.  We hope we will be able to hear his views on the mobilization soon again in the coming days. . . . How is the atmosphere at the b...

NOVANEWS   by Johnny Punish  The Founding Fathers are Emerging in a Modern Day 21st Century Democratic and Free Egypt and the Results are Surprising……   Asmaa Mahfouz, 26 Year Old Leader in Egypt No, it’s not Hosni Mubarak, the man who, if not for his 20th century ethos, could have been the founding father of a new 21st century democratic and free Egypt.  No, it’s not U.S. President Barack Obama who set the future for democracy in the Middle East in motion with his 2009 Cairo speech.  No, it’s not even a man!  It’s Asmaaa Mahfouz, the woman behind Egypt’s pro-democracy revolution. So much has been written about women’s rights in Muslim countries, even citing this issue as a justification for the western military invasion, but the western feminist movement remains largely silent about th...

NOVANEWS The Egyptian Tsunami of people power is moving so rapidly that the walls of the Old World Order, based on control and military force, cannot hold it in check.  The hypocrisy of our selling lethal tear gas canisters to Israel and Egypt to be used to disperse the huge crowds demanding freedom from oppression is indicative of  the United State’s morally flawed foreign policy of supporting dictators and suppressing freedom throughout the Middle East It’s Super Bowl Sunday which rings hollow compared to the events that are now rapidly unfolding in the Middle East. American exceptionalism may well be having its last feeble hurrah in Dallas,Texas today where the Steelers meet the Packers ~ for the eyes and ears of most of the world are really trained on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt wher...

NOVANEWS   The US has kept Mubarak in power, giving his regime 1.5 billion dollars in aid last year—mainly because he supported America’s pro-Israel policies, especially by helping Israel to maintain its stranglehold on Gaza. By Paul J. Balles / STAFF WRITER “The military was greeted warmly on the streets of Cairo. Crowds roared with approval as one soldier was carried through Tahrir square today holding a flower in his hand,” reports Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous. He speaks of “a great sense of pride that this is a leaderless movement organized by the people. A genuine popular revolt. It was not organized by opposition movements, though they have now joined the protesters in Tahrir.” According to Kouddous, “The Muslim Brotherhood was out in full force today. At on...

NOVANEWS   Only a criminal regime could allow such criminal acts to dominate and terrorize innocent people with impunity.   By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat Hosni Mubarak   “I talk to you during critical times that are testing Egypt and its people which could sweep them into the unknown. “The country is passing through difficult times and tough experiences which began with noble youths and citizens who have practiced their rights to peaceful demonstrations and protests, expressing their concerns and aspirations but they were quickly exploited by those who sought to spread chaos and violence, confrontation and to violate the constitutional legitimacy and to attack it” “Those protests were transformed from a noble and civilized phenomenon of practicing freedom of expression to unfortunate clashes, mobil...