Egypt

NOVANEWS     Mohamed ElBaradei addresses the crowd at Tahrir … AP/PHOTO Protests in Egypt against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak is entering its eighth day today. Reports say thousands of protesters will again gather on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and across cities in the country. The protesters are demanding that Mubarak step down after 30 years in power. They have called for a general strike and what they hope will be a “million-men” protest march on February 1. Muhammad El-Baradei has called on  President Mubarak to step down from power, saying Egyptians are beginning a new era in their national life. Mr El-Baradei, has said Washington is losing credibility by talking of democracy while still supporting a president viewed by millions of  Egyptian people as oppressive. “This is common se...

NOVANEWS   Gilad Atzmon   - Haaretz reported today that  “Israel urges the world to curb criticism of Egypt’s Mubarak.” Apparently Jerusalem seeks to convince its allies that it is in the ‘West’s interest’ to maintain the stability of the Egyptian regime. In other words, Israel urges the ‘Goyim’ to ‘keep being subservient to Jerusalem’. Jerusalem was  foolish enough to admit that Mubarak was there to serve Israeli and ‘Western’ interests. Over the weekend Israel called on the United States and a number of European countries to restrain their condemnation of President Hosni Mubarak to “preserve stability in the region.” Let’s all be clear about it : as far as Israelis are concerned, ‘stability in the region’ means a few million Jews living in ‘safety’ on Palestinian land, at the expense ...

NOVANEWS   My Truthout essay on the political economy of the protests. Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the forces of revolution and those of counterrevolution. Hundreds of thousands of people - on Tuesday, February 1, well over a million - have been streaming each day into Tahrir Square, the largest plaza in the Arab world, located in the heart of downtown Cairo. Army tanks line the streets, helicopters and F16s buzz overhead, and pro-Mubarak demonstrators, many of them hired thugs, bloodied thousands of protesters yesterday in Tahrir and elsewhere. Yet the people keep pushing for Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's unconditional ouster, and not just in Cairo. Alexandria has been convulsed, while Suez, a small city abutting the Suez Canal, has been riven with some...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross     Is the Revolution Legitimate Populist Rebellion, or Part of a Plan to ‘Balkanize’ Egypt By Michael Collins Piper   http://michaelcollinspiper.podbean.com   If there is anything that can be said about the crisis in Egypt—which is reverberating throughout the Middle East—it is that it is ultimately open to multiple interpretations. Any “expert” who purports to give you “the last word” on the topic is deceiving you and himself. Geopolitical strategists, armchair pundits and conspiracy theory devotees are competing to tell the world “what’s really happening and why,” but there is no single truth to the matter. First of all, consider the issue of popular unrest in Egypt. All serious evidence indicates the Mubarak regime has sustained itself through force and ...

NOVANEWS     So who are these people? asks Egyptian author Adhaf Soueif. In support of the president, they throw Molotov bottles and plant pots from the tops of buildings onto the heads of women and children. To establish stability and order, they break heads with rocks and legs with bicycle chains. To have their say in the debate they slash faces with knives. Who are they? Well, every time one of them is captured his ID says he's a member of the security forces. By Ahdaf Soueif The Guardian 2 February 2011   Pro-Mubarak thugs with whips ride horses into democracy protestors I knew something was wrong when I woke up to the sound of car horns. It's been so quiet and peaceful the last few days we've even started seeing the bats once again flitting in and out of the fruit trees at dusk...

NOVANEWS  Earlier today, hired thugs threw Molotov cocktails at peaceful protesters in Tahrir Square, and men on camels and horses rode into the crowd with batons, injuring people and hoping to sow chaos, and thereby hoping to ensure that people think that the Mubarak government must stay in place to endure an “orderly transition.” Some reports assert that 5000 or more have been injured. Eyewitness reports are that captured thugs have police IDs. Others were reportedly bribed or beaten into throwing rocks or assaulting the revolutionary protesters. Government propaganda asserts that it is Muslim Brotherhood militants throwing the firebombs on the people. The army, meanwhile, “is calling on protesters to go and stay home for Egypt's security.” That is the counter-revolution. And as I write,...

NOVANEWS   Eight days into the revolt in Egypt and we are seeing Zionist Mu-Barak marshal his forces against the peaceful protesters. Zionist Mu-Barak and his clique were caught off guard by the speed and vigour of the uprising against their corrupt rule, initially they were unsure what to do and just employed the Interior Ministry troops. They were insufficient and thankfully overwhelmed, so then the military came into view, but again they were unsure precisely which side to commit to. Zionist Mu-Barak has been pressurised both internally and externally, yet he's not buckling, he's clinging to power as best he can. He doesn't want to go. Mu-Barak assumes he can't fully rely on the army, so he has brought in members of his party, the NDP and bolstered by those who benefited f...

NOVANEWS Dear All,   Demand President Obama immediately pressure the U.S.-backed Egyptian military to protect peaceful protesters in Egypt.   Add more pressure: Call the White House   Today, peaceful anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square were attacked by a mob that anti-government protesters and some journalists say was orchestrated by the government and tolerated by the U.S.-backed Egyptian military. The U.S.-backed Egyptian military did not stop the violence, despite its earlier pledge to protect peaceful protesters, the Guardian reports. [1] Journalists were also attacked, including CNN's Anderson Cooper. [2.]  Demand that U.S. officials act immediately to stop the violence by holding the U.S.-backed Egyptian military to account, making clear that U.S. aid to the Egypt...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross       Egypt–the real deal or another Israhell operation? MCP discusses the likelihood that the current turmoil taking place in the land of Israhell’s ancient enemy is as much deliberate as spontaneous and the long term Zionist reasons for doing it.   Listen Here

NOVANEWS On whose behalf is Egypt savaging the people of Gaza ? An influx of hair-raising stories keeps coming from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border terminal. Nearly all these stories underscore the degrading treatment meted out to Gazans, already thoroughly savaged by the manifestly criminal siege imposed by Zio=Nazi regime in 'Israel'  and their puppet in cairo on the coastal enclave in coordination with several regional and international players, including Zionist Mu-Barak. August 15,2010 by By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Palestine   An influx  of  hair-raising stories keeps coming from the Egyptian side of the Rafah border terminal. Nearly all these stories underscore the degrading treatment meted out to Gazans, already thoroughly savaged by the man...