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NOVANEWS Rights NGO claims that Israeli planes carrying crowd dispersal weapons have arrived in Egypt Monday, 31 January 2011 14:20 Three Israeli planes landed at Cairo’s Mina International Airport on Saturday carrying hazardous equipment for use in dispersing and suppressing large crowds. The International Network for Rights and Development has claimed that Israeli logistical support has been sent to Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak to help his regime confront demonstrations demanding that he steps down as head of state. According to reports by the non-governmental organisation, three Israeli planes landed at Cairo’s Mina International Airport on Saturday carrying hazardous equipment for use in dispersing and suppressing large crowds.In the statement circulated by the International Ne...

NOVANEWS     Get Out Mubarek! - Get Out Mubarek!   In honor of his highness, the dicktator of Egypt, Hosni Mubarek on the eve’s of his ouster, I present to you “Ya Mubarek”, a punk rock song dedicated to the dishonor that is a man who could NOT get his fat friggin’ greed and ego out of the way for people to live in freedom and liberty…..such a friggin loser, this fat ass has to hold on till they drag him out by his bits and pieces. What a loser! Get Out Mubarek! By Jonny Punish, 2011 It-la It-La Ya Mubarek (Get Out, Get Out Mubarek!) Yalla Yalla Ya Mubarek (Hurry, Hurry Mubarek!) Cairo’s burning and he can’t see the flame The beople screaming and he thinks it’s a game While the kids cry out says he’s not to blame It’s too late – he’s deaf – that’s the name of his game It-la It-La Ya M...

NOVANEWS   All power to the people day and night - Longtime Washington Post-neocon columnist is terrified of the prospect of Muslims governing their own country. Cohen’s column is the most hilarious notion written on Egypt since reading that Israel is advising the world to refrain from criticizing Mubarak. By Alex Pareene in Salon Nothing saddens Richard Cohen more than the sight of hundreds of thousands of Egyptians peacefully protesting. The longtime Washington Post columnist is sad because those childish Arab Muslims might end up with a democracy, but they don’t know how democracy works. Here is how democracy works: We like it unless “the people” want something that complicates our current foreign policy objectives. For live updates, see Al Jezeera. Cohen is just broken up about this...

NOVANEWS   Zionist Omar Suleiman Omar Suleiman and the Rendition to Torture   By Stephen Soldz in CounterPunch In response to the mass protests of recent days, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has appointed his first Vice President in his over 30 years rule, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman. When Suleiman was first announced, Aljazeera commentators were describing him as a “distinguished” and “respected ” man. It turns out, however, that he is distinguished for, among other things, his central role in Egyptian torture and in the US rendition to torture program. Further, he is “respected” by US officials for his cooperation with their torture plans, among other initiatives. Katherine Hawkins, an expert on the US’s rendition to torture program, in an email, has sent some critical texts ...

NOVANEWS   by Michael Leon   Ben Shahn's (1898-1967) Allegory (1948) depicts The Lion of Judah standing guard over the Jewish victims. Now, Israel has become the tyrant and the people of Egypt and an entire region the new victims, rising up against the Lion, weakened today by Zionist militarism and bigotry. As the Egyptians prepare for gigantic protests to force out the Zionist dictator Mu-Barak, a legacy of neglect, blood, and death will live through the coming centuries. The victims are honored as events unfolding in Egypt have injected in the people the giddy feeling one gets when changing history by standing with brothers and sisters against tyranny. Israhell fears a people refusing to remain victims. One hopes its fears are justified. Now is the time for action, for millions in the...

NOVANEWS     01. Egyptian anti-government protesters clash with riot police at the port city of Suez, about 134 km (83 miles) east of Cairo, January 27, 2011. Police fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern city of Suez, on a third day of protests calling for an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30 year-old-rule. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany    The Egyptian protests against lack of work, rising food prices and the oppressive regime of President Hosni Mubarak seem to be moving towards a climax. Today the Egyptian government has shut down all internet access and text messaging service to try and prevent people from finding out about the protests. And to stop people from finding out about the police brutality which has been going on for dec...

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 ...