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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Bahraini hunger striker’s letter to President Obama
Read in full here. Excerpt: I write to you from Bahrain, after living through horrible injustice that I would never wish upon anyone in the world. Security forces attacked my home, broke our doors with sledgehammers, and terrified my family. … Continue reading
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Video: Battle of Misurata
The siege on the western revolutionary hold-out continues, see the video here.
Bahraini Activists Dying in Custody
This regime will one day answer for all of this. Al-Jazeera: A Bahraini businessman who was a member of the country’s leading Shia Muslim opposition group, Wefaq, has died in police custody, sources say. There was no immediate reaction by state … Continue reading
Iranian exiles ‘must leave Iraq’ by years end
BBC: Iraq’s government has said members of an Iranian exile group must leave the country by the end of the year, after deadly clashes with security forces. The People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) would be forced out of its … Continue reading
The Emergence of a Guerrilla War in the West of Libya
AlMasry AlYoum: Overwhelmed by the superior firepower of Muammar Qadhafi’s troops, opposition fighters in western Libya are resorting increasingly to guerrilla tactics in their campaign to topple the veteran leader. Unlike eastern Libya, where rebels hold many coastal cities, the … Continue reading
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Video: “How the Middle East is Changing”
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Thousands march in Yemen over protesters’ deaths
I have so much respect for these people. They have braved bullets, massacres, and a president who’s as stubborn as a mule, yet they’re still coming out in droves. The Guardian: In Yemen, tens of thousands of people marched in … Continue reading
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Video: Fearless Revolutionaries in Syria
See it here.
Footage from the Protest outside Israeli Embassy in Cairo
Egyptian and Palestinian flags raised together… I can smell the change in the air. See the video here.
Calls for 3rd Palestinian Intifada Inundate Facebook Censors
New America Media: Arab confidence in Facebook has suffered a significant setback after the site shut down “The Third Palestinian Intifada†page—which had amassed 350,000 supporters—evidently under strong pressure from Israel. After first rejecting requests to remove the page, Facebook … Continue reading
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Egypt: Subverting Democracy Part VI
al-Jazeera: Hundreds of soldiers and security troops backed by armoured vehicles stormed into the square at around 3am on Saturday, firing shots into the air, brandishing tasers and batons, and beating people, witnesses said. Tens of thousands of protesters had flooded … Continue reading
The Wikileaks Cables on Israel
The recently revealed wikileaks’ cables are explosive – The Guardian: The cables report a private talk between the then US ambassador, William Monroe, and King Hamad of Bahrain in the king’s palace on 15 February 2005. Monroe reported back to … Continue reading
Bahrain’s Rulers Tighten Their Grip on Battered Opposition
NYTimes: With Saudi troops now in the country to support King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, Bahrain has taken on the likeness of a police state. There have been mass arrests, mass firings of government workers, reports of torture and, on … Continue reading
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ElBaradei: We’ll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza
To those who are in denial about the shifts taking place in the Middle, take a look at the rhetoric of some moderate politicians. This is mere grandstanding but it should give you a clue about the strategic shifts taking … Continue reading
Army says no to ‘Khomeini rule’ in Egypt
AFP: Egypt will not be ruled by “another (Ayatollah) Khomeini,” the country’s military said on Monday, in reference to the cleric who led Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, the official MENA news agency reported. “Egypt will not be governed by another … Continue reading