March 2011

Libya crisis map

by News Sources 03.11.2011

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Bradley Manning being mistreated says State Department spokesman

by News Sources 03.11.2011

The Guardian reports: Hillary Clinton’s spokesman has launched a public attack on the Pentagon for the way it is treating military prisoner Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of handing the US embassy cables to WikiLeaks. PJ Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs at the US state department, said Manning was being [...]

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David Bromwich: superpower bypassed by history

by TomDispatch 03.11.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Secretary of Defense Robert Gates just made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, and talk about embarrassment, even if in a minor vein: he was met at the tarmac by Afghan War commander General David Petraeus and here, caught on camera, was how they greeted each other: General Petraeus: Mister Secretary.  [...]

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Nicolas Sarkozy calls for air strikes on Libya if Gaddafi attacks civilians

by News Sources 03.11.2011

The Guardian reports: Nicolas Sarkozy has called for targeted air strikes against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime if his forces use chemical weapons or launch air strikes against civilians. As the EU foreign policy chief, Lady Ashton, warned that a no-fly zone could risk civilian lives in Libya, the French president told an emergency EU summit in [...]

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AIPAC’s newest strategy

by News Sources 03.11.2011

MJ Rosenberg writes: In recent years, AIPAC’s main message has been about Iran and its view of the dangers posed by the Iranian nuclear program. Speaker after speaker at various AIPAC conferences over the past decade (including, most histrionically, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) has invoked the Holocaust when discussing the possibility of an Iranian nuclear [...]

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Americans on Islam and violence

by News Sources 03.11.2011

Reflecting on the results of a survey on American attitudes towards Islam, Jonathan Wright writes: Maybe it’s time that educational curricula made a deliberate effort to explain the diversity of opinion within such communities, emphasizing the way that believers, as individuals and as groups, emphasize the doctrines that suit their worldly interests and political dispositions. [...]

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The “Bush-tortured” excuse for indefinite detention

by News Sources 03.11.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: Yesterday, I wrote about the fictitious excuse being offered to justify why Obama is continuing the indefinite detentions and military commissions which defined the Bush/Cheney Guantanamo detention scheme:  it’s Congress’ fault.  Today we have a new excuse:  it’s Bush’s fault.  Because Bush tortured some of the detainees, this reasoning goes, Obama is incapable of prosecuting [...]

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Yaakov Amidror – in his own words

by News Sources 03.11.2011

Ori Nir reports: Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reportedly decided to appoint an ultra-hawk, one of Israel’s leading national-religious icons, as his new national security adviser. If media reports are correct, Netanyahu’s new pick for the important position is Major-General (res.) Yaakov Amidror, who in the past advocated for reoccupying the Gaza Strip and [...]

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Interview with Judge Richard Goldstone

by News Sources 03.11.2011

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The fight for Libya

by News Sources 03.10.2011

Anthony Shadid reports from Ras Lanuf: The momentum shifted decisively Thursday in an uprising that has shaken Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s four decades of rule, as rebels fled from this strategic refinery town under a sustained land, air and sea assault by government forces. The fighting was a stark illustration of the asymmetry of the conflict, [...]

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Poorly informed Libyans make emotive appeal for no-fly zone

by Paul Woodward 03.10.2011

Phyllis Bennis writes: While the Libyan revolt is playing out in vastly different ways, and with far greater bloodshed, it is part and parcel of the democratic revolutionary process rising across the Arab world and beyond. And just as in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, and elsewhere, there is no evidence that the Libyan population supports [...]

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Time to support the Libyan revolution

by Paul Woodward 03.09.2011

There are those, such as Stephen Kinzer, who regard this as “a highly obscure conflict” — as though we really don’t know enough to judge what’s going on. When journalists are getting arrested, beaten up and tortured, it does indeed get hard to know what’s going on, but it’s not hard to take sides. And [...]

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Why the Egyptian revolution is more significant than the American revolution

by News Sources 03.09.2011

Sam Haselby writes: How does the revolution in Egypt compare with the American Revolution? There is no comparison. It is more impressive and more important. So far. In the United States, the American Revolution is sacred history. As a result, Americans tend to associate its slogans and symbols with the whole concept of revolution. If [...]

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A long battle ahead for Egyptian women

by News Sources 03.09.2011

Jumanah Younis writes: A demonstration commemorating International Women’s Day was attacked on Tuesday afternoon in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. More than 200 men charged on the women – forcing some to the ground, dragging others out of the crowd, groping and sexually harassing them as police and military figures stood by and failed to act. It [...]

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Obama does not get it

by News Sources 03.09.2011

Lamis Andoni writes: Barack Obama, the US president, has still not fully grasped the essence of the revolutions underway in the Arab world. He genuinely seems to believe that the people rallying for democracy in the region are making a pro-Western, if not pro-Israeli, statement. “All the forces that we’re seeing at work in Egypt [...]

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‘Go to Obama and tell him: We don’t want his army or fleet’

by News Sources 03.09.2011

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Permanent temporariness

by News Sources 03.09.2011

Alastair Crooke writes: It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which I was sitting flew open. In stalked a figure still dressed in a dark overcoat and scarf. He evidently could contain himself no longer. I was in Downing Street with the prime minister’s foreign [...]

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The fight for Libya

by News Sources 03.08.2011

Chris McGreal reports from Ras Lanuf, where thousands of young volunteers now provide the bulk of the rebel force that has swept along Libya’s eastern coast: Gaddafi’s air force has bombed Ras Lanuf repeatedly, cutting off the town’s water supply on Tuesday and destroying housing. On Monday the victims included a civilian, Mohammed Ashtal, who [...]

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Obama’s mistake in Libya

by News Sources 03.08.2011

Christopher Dickey writes: President Barack Obama and European heads of state are enthralled spectators to events on the ground in Libya, waiting and watching for the first real massacre. Once that happens—once they allow that to happen, standing by as Muammar Gaddafi loyalists with air power and tanks slaughter scores of civilians—then Western leaders may [...]

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Zero hour in Benghazi

by News Sources 03.08.2011

Nicolas Pelham writes: Two and a half weeks after shrugging off Colonel Qaddafi’s dictatorship, the rebels are continuing their carnival outside the courthouse in Benghazi, the city on Libya’s east coast where they have made their headquarters. Roaring crowds taunt Qaddafi to send his planes and tanks, and promise to brave them as they did [...]

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For just an extra $20 billion from US taxpayers, Israel can offer “stability” in defense against the Arab democratic threat

by News Sources 03.08.2011

The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel will need to boost military spending and may seek an additional $20 billion in U.S. security assistance to help it manage potential threats stemming from popular upheavals in the Arab world, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday. Still, he said Israel shouldn’t fear changes in the region or the [...]

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Arab feminism

by News Sources 03.08.2011

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Egypt’s syndicalist future?

by News Sources 03.08.2011

Nathan Brown writes: What Egyptians have termed their “revolution” is now beginning to look like one. Seen from afar, it appears that the military rulers have struggled successfully to hold most state institutions intact and slow the pace of change, but the Egyptian political order is still being fundamentally rewritten. The core constitutional demands of [...]

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Saudi Arabia is losing its fear

by News Sources 03.08.2011

Eman Al Nafjan writes: In Riyadh the mood is tense; everyone is on edge wondering what will happen on Friday – the date the Saudi people have chosen for their revolution. The days building up to Friday so far have not been as reassuring as one would like. On 4 March, there were protests in [...]

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