November 2011

How students landed on the front lines of class war

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Juan Cole writes: The deliberate pepper-spraying by campus police of nonviolent protesters at UC Davis on Friday has provoked national outrage. But the horrific incident must not cloud the real question: What led comfortable, bright, middle-class students to join the Occupy protest movement against income inequality and big-money politics in the first place? The University [...]

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Netanyahu views the Arab Spring with complete contempt

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Haaretz reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blasted Israeli and world politicians who support the Arab Spring revolutions and accused the Arab world of “moving not forward, but backward.” In his sharpest Knesset comment since the wave of uprisings swept out of Tunisia and across the Arab states in January, Netanyahu expressed his complete [...]

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Capitalism vs. the climate

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Naomi Klein writes: There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row.   He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American [...]

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Earth from space

by Attention to the Unseen 11.24.2011

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Global recession looms as euro crisis deepens

by News Sources 11.24.2011

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Journalist Mona Eltahawy: I was sexually assaulted by Egypt police

by News Sources 11.24.2011

The Guardian reports: The US-based Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has been released according to her personal twitter account after 12 hours in detention at the hands of Cairo security forces. An earlier tweet from the account @monaeltahawy said that she was sexually and physically assaulted while being held inside the interior ministry in Cairo, in [...]

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After apology, Egypt’s military rejects quick end to its rule

by News Sources 11.24.2011

The New York Times reports: Egyptian generals offered an unusual apology on Thursday for the killings of protesters in Tahrir Square, the iconic landmark of the country’s revolution, but rejected the demonstrators’ demands for an immediate end to military rule. As violence around the square eased after five days of intense clashes, the military also [...]

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Reporting Syria

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Robin Yassin-Kassab writes: The Syrian regime’s blanket ban on journalist access has some carefully selected exceptions. Robert Fisk, for instance, who seems to be compensating for the naive anti-Syrian and pro-March 14th line in his reporting of Lebanon over the last years by treating the statements of Syrian regime figures – professional liar Boutheina Shaaban [...]

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A perfect terrorist

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Watch A Perfect Terrorist on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. See also Sebastian Rotella’s companion article in ProPublica, The American behind India’s 9/11—and how U.S. botched chances to stop him. Share

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Bahrain’s Independent Commission report

by News Sources 11.24.2011

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Report finds Bahrain systematically tortured political detainees

by News Sources 11.24.2011

McClatchy reports: An international human rights panel concluded Wednesday that the Sunni Muslim government of the small gulf island of Bahrain carried out “deliberate” and “systematic” torture against many of the 2,929 people it arrested last spring during protests demanding more democracy. The panel, headed by Egyptian-born U.S. lawyer Cherif Bassiouni, also said the Bahraini [...]

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Inside Story – Saleh visits Saudi: More of the same?

by News Sources 11.24.2011

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Yemen president quits after deal in Saudi Arabia

by News Sources 11.23.2011

The Guardian reports: After nine months of mass protests calling for his resignation, Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed an agreement in Saudi Arabia transferring his powers to the vice president in return for immunity from prosecution. With the economy on the verge of collapse and bloody clashes breaking out between armed factions of the military, [...]

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Fifth day of clashes in Cairo

by News Sources 11.23.2011

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Egyptian military using ‘more dangerous’ teargas on Tahrir Square protesters

by News Sources 11.23.2011

The Guardian reports: Egyptian security forces are believed to be using a powerful incapacitating gas against civilian protesters in Tahrir Square following multiple cases of unconsciousness and epileptic-like convulsions among those exposed. The Guardian has collected video footage as well as witness accounts from doctors and victims who have offered strong evidence that at least [...]

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Inside Story – Egyptian military’s quandary

by News Sources 11.23.2011

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Who stands where in Egypt

by News Sources 11.23.2011

Issandr El Amrani has created a useful chart to show where the various political actors are positioned in the current crisis as the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is challenged by protesters in Tahrir Square. Share

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Inside Story – Egypt: Honeymoon over?

by News Sources 11.23.2011

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How Occupy stopped the supercommittee

by News Sources 11.23.2011

Dean Baker writes: Those who want lower deficits now also want higher unemployment. They may not know this, but that is the reality – since employers are not going to hire people because the government has cut its spending or fired government employees. The world does not work that way. While this is the reality, [...]

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Will 50% cuts “hollow out” the military?

by News Sources 11.23.2011

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America’s never-ending war

by News Sources 11.23.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought us 9/11″ — Al Qaeda — by rendering it “operationally ineffective.” Specifically, “the leadership ranks of the main al-Qaeda terrorist network have been reduced to just two figures whose [...]

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Most American children lack economic security

by News Sources 11.23.2011

Motoko Rich reports: With the Census Bureau fine-tuning its definition of poverty, a group of “near poor” has emerged — those who are not officially poor but are perilously close to it. Another way of putting that is to look at “economic security,” the amount of income necessary to cover basic expenses without relying on [...]

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Egypt’s military rulers have ‘crushed’ hopes of January 25 protesters

by News Sources 11.23.2011

Amnesty International: Egypt’s military rulers have completely failed to live up to their promises to Egyptians to improve human rights and have instead been responsible for a catalogue of abuses which in some cases exceeds the record of Hosni Mubarak, Amnesty International said today in a new report. In Broken Promises: Egypt’s Military Rulers Erode [...]

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Corrupt and brutal, Egypt’s police fight for their survival

by News Sources 11.23.2011

Ursula Lindsey writes: At the edge of Tahrir Square on Tuesday night young men—and a few women—vied for a place in the front lines fighting the riot police, where, decked out in scarfs, goggles, and surgical masks, they formed a fearless rank. When the protestors fell and were carried to the motorcycles and ambulances ready [...]

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