18th February, 2011
Millions of Egyptian demonstrators are holding a rally in the capital, Cairo, to demand the military hand over power to a civilian government.
Archive for February, 2011
Millions call for civilian rule in Egypt
Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2011
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Constitutional patriotism – completing Egypt’s revolution
Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2011
Tamer Bahgat & Khalid El-Sherif
17th February, 2011
“Her length is a month’s journey, and width is ten months. Her sky is clear, her Nile is sweet and her land is most fertile. Her women are unique wonders, and her men are toys. A piper will bring the people together, and a stick will separate them. They belong to him who conquers and controls.”
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Experts say Turkey to become center of political awakening
Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2011
18th February, 2011
While unceasing protests have toppled two pro-Western governments in the Arab world, they have mushroomed in a number of Muslim nations, such as Yemen, Jordan, Libya and Iran. Experts believe Turkey could be a major source of inspiration and a center of political awakening in the region for other autocracies.
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Lethal crackdown in Bahrain is “Made in the US”
Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2011
18th February, 2011
A savage attack by police on peaceful demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in the center of Bahrain’s capital Manama early Thursday morning (approximately 3:30 a.m.) left at least six and perhaps more dead, dozens wounded and 60 missing. After firing tear gas in large quantities, hundreds of police waded into the crowd, swinging clubs and firing pellets from shotguns.
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All about Pearl roundabout
Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2011
Pepe Escobar
18th February, 2011
The historic, Great 2011 Arab revolt is relentless – those initial jasmine winds from the Maghreb turning into sandstorms east and west and now blanketing all latitudes across Northern Africa and the Middle East all the way to Southwest Asia, in Iran.
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Egypt’s revolution will not go home, youth groups say
Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2011
17th February, 2011
As a host of goups, youth movements and organizations, created before, during or after the outbreak of the 25 Januaray Revolution, rush to expand and develop their organizational and political capacities, there seems to be a consensus among them that the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak is merely a beginning, and insist that the revolution’s goals are still to be realized. Foremost on their agendas is the abolishing of the infamous 30-year-long state of emergency, the immediate release of all political prisoners, full freedom to form political parties and trade unions, and the formation of a national unity government of independents and technocrats that excludes the former ruling National Democratic Party.
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Never mind the bees: what about us!
Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2011
Interestingly, the Union ministry of environment and forests has constituted a committee to assess environmental impact of mushrooming mobile towers on the population of birds and bees but have not done anything to that end for human beings.
Mobile tower radiations: the new kid on the pollution block
17th February, 2011
The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) receives several complaints against radiations from mobile network towers, but it is unable to act on them as it has not been delegated any power to deal with electro-pollution.
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Reinvestigate 9/11 update
Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2011
Reinvestigate 9/11
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Iraq Inquiry ties itself in more knots. RI911 has been writing to MPs and Peers seeking support for our call on London’s Iraq Inquiry to start asking questions about 9/11. Tony Blair told them that the attacks changed the “calculus of risk” and hence were critical in the decision to invade Iraq. The Inquiry nonetheless wrote to tell us that 9/11 is outside its terms of reference. We suspect promises were made to the US as indicated by Wikileaks documents. A supporter is opening judicial review proceedings against the Iraq Inquiry. Our letters have elicited replies from several curious Parliamentarians including an eminent ex-Foreign Secretary.
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Nervous U.S. navy eyes on Bahrain
Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2011
Mark Thompson
15th February, 2011
While the troubles in Egypt and Tunisia are important in Washington’s geo-strategic calculations, they don’t rank highly in its selfish concern over real estate. All that changes when it comes to the tiny Persian Gulf state of Bahrain, an island tucked between Saudi Arabia and Qatar on the gulf’s western shore with fewer than 1 million residents. The home of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet – and a recently-launched $580 million U.S. expansion effort slated to double the U.S. Navy’s acreage there – could be in jeopardy if Bahrain’s monarchy falls.
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Thousands of protestors spend night in Bahrain square
Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2011
16th February, 2011
Thousands of people calling for political reform have spent the night on the main square in Bahrain’s capital of Manama, regional media said on Wednesday.
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A Greek rescue means grave problems …for Britain
Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2011
City hopes of the fragmentation of the eurozone seem to be fading fast: enter the great sterling crisis.
Dionysios (Dennis) Kefalakos
13th February, 2011
During the last EU Summit of 4 February, France and Germany presented their plan to settle Eurozone’s long term financial problems. The “package” is meant to drastically reduce the large discrepancies that exist in the fiscal and the competitiveness fronts, between the seventeen Eurozone member states, make the zone cohesive in the long run and guarantee its creditworthiness. As it has already left to be understood by Paris and Berlin some three weeks ago, the short term Eurozone problems, stemming mainly from the Greek woes, are also to be settled with carrot and stick. The carrot is the support to reduce this country’s state debt, and the stick being the introductions of rules making impossible for all future governments to run unsustainable budget deficits. Let’s take one thing at a time.
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