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Mubarak Resigns, Military In Charge – Watch Al-Jazeera Live (LIVE STREAM)
For continued coverage of Egypt and the Mideast from Al-Jazeera English, use the player below or visith the Al-Jazeera English YouTube channel. This stream is overloaded and sometimes …
History Suggests No Doomsday Will Occur if Iran Gets the Bomb
Few issues in international affairs are so unquestioningly accepted as the notion that a nuclear-armed Iran would wreak havoc on the world. But history does not support the inevitability …
An Egyptian Voice of Democracy Says, Tell Old Pharaoh, Go
“The culture of democracy is still far away.” That's what Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman told a group of the country's newspaper editors on Tuesday. It was just two …
The Environment as Our Common Heritage
What does it mean to say that the environment is our “common heritage”? On one level this is a simple statement of fact: when we are born, we come …
Mubarak Resigns, Setting Off Wild Celebrations in Egypt
Cairo - Bowing to 18 days of a popular revolt that showed no sign of slowing down, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned Friday and handed over power to the …
Paul Ryan Criticizes Bernanke for Failing to Contain Tooth Fairy
In a Congressional hearing today, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee, strongly criticized Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke for failing to contain the severe inflation …
America’s Stay-at-Home Ex-President (2)
As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk of arrest on …
Katrina vanden Heuvel and Ryan Grim on the State of the Media (Video)
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Medea Benjamin | Obama Must Take a Stand and Demand That Mubarak Step Down
The Egyptian people have been betrayed yet again by Hosni Mubarak, who still refuses to step down. Furious, they have responded in a loud and clear voice: MUBARAK MUST …