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Egyptian Protests Grounded in Decades of Struggle; Portend Regional Transformation
Tweet Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the forces of revolution and those of counterrevolution. Hundreds of thousands of people - on Tuesday, February 1, well …
Noam Chomsky | “The Arab World Is on Fire“
“The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported on Jan. 27, while throughout the region, Western allies “are quickly losing their influence.” The shock wave was set in motion …
Sent to Jail for Caring About Her Kids’ Future
An African-American single mother of two from Akron, Ohio, was sentenced to two concurrent five-year prison sentences for a felony conviction of “falsifying documents” so that her two daughters …
Patrick Leahy Introduces Bipartisan PATRIOT Act Reforms, but Civil Rights Groups Unsatisfied
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) introduced a reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act last week that would extend and reform some provisions set to expire on February 28. Leahy's reforms, known …
Abortion at Risk: Where Does Your State Stand?
In the wake of Republican victories in the November midterms, abortion rights have taken a pummeling. On the federal level, as mapped out in the latest issue of Ms., …
Israel Sides With Its Loyal Ally in Cairo
On Tuesday, February 1, I watched Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give a talk about the ongoing events in Egypt. In essence, he said that if the demonstrations against …
Plan B for Health Care Reform: It’s Called “Medicare for All“
My colleague, Bo Cutter, has noted the likelihood of continued challenges to health care reform in the wake of the recent Florida State Supreme Court decision to invalidate the …
Jim Hightower | The Kochs Are Coming
Rancho Mirage, California - The multibillionaire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors, keeping their identities and self-serving involvement …
US Officials: Cairo Clash Shows Army Won’t Push Mubarak Out
Washington - The Egyptian military's failure Wednesday to keep pro- and anti-government forces from clashing violently in Cairo's Tahrir Square provided persuasive evidence that the army has no intention …
Donald Rumsfeld, “Defender of the Constitution” (Really)
Here's what I thought when I heard the Conservative Political Action Conference has decided to honor former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with something CPAC calls the "Defender of …