The likely winner of a genuinely free Egyptian election, according to most opinion polls, would be the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brothers are not particularly radical as Islamists go, but the first thing they have promised to do if they win power is to hold a referendum on Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. And most Egyptians, [...]
29 January 2011 | [print_link] MASS DEMONSTRATIONS of workers and youth throughout Egypt shook the regime of US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak on Friday. Hundreds of thousands poured into the streets to demand the president’s resignation, denouncing mass unemployment and poverty, clashing with police, and burning down the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party. The [...]
The sordid record of the US, always in cahoots with dictators and henchmen supporting puny superrish minorities at the expense of the masses, has been well known to leftists here and abroad for generations. By Tom Eley [print_link] 29 January 2011 On Friday, WikiLeaks released dozens of diplomatic cables that together reveal the US [...]
‘WE NEED TO STOP THIS CULTURE BEFORE IT KILLS THE PLANET’ By Mickey Z | Crossposted with SEISMOLOGIK (a fraternal site) Thursday, January 27, 2011 | [print_link] As you begin reading this interview, take a look at the nearest clock. Now, dig this: Since yesterday at the same exact time, 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed, [...]
DAVID MICHAEL GREEN Civility in politics is – pardon the anti-pun – all the rage nowadays. [print_link] Go figure. I guess assassinating members of the ruling class tends to have that kind of sobering effect. So everyone’s talking nicey-nice, certain members of Congress will be sitting together during this week’s State of the Union despite [...]
Alex Doherty interviews Paul Street January 20, 2011 | [print_link] [* This interview originally appeared as “Jared Loughner and the Paranoid Style” on the Web site of New Left Project (UK) at: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/jared_loughner_and_the_paranoid_style/] 1. Doherty: In the wake of the killings in Tuscon the tea party and their fellow travelers have been attacked for their lack of civility and [...]
By Arun Gupta, AlterNet January 18, 2011 [print_link] Crossposted with http://www.alternet.org/story/149500/ ABOVE: US Congressmembers pay homage to the victims of latest gun massacre in Arizona. Too little too late, and little is likely to change due to the political class corruption. Jared Loughner’s attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is a wakeup call for us to confront [...]
By Matthew Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive, January 14, 2011 [print_link] “This is more than a story of personal betrayal but one of political repression. It sickens me.” That was the reaction of Jess Sundin, a leader of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, after she found out about the FBI infiltration of her group by a [...]
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