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Pogrom in Cairo – Where Was Obama?
Contrary to what we were led to believe - that the US-backed and US-financed Egyptian military would protect the right to peaceful protest - on Wednesday, February 2, in …
In Tahrir
On Tuesday morning I walked around Cairo's Tahrir Square, weaving through and around the thousands of fellow protesters, trying to get a view of things. The space felt like …
News in Brief: Protests in Yemen Remain Passionate, and More
Protests in Yemen Remain Passionate, but Peaceful
JPMorgan Hid Doubts on Madoff, Documents Suggest
Senior executives at JPMorgan Chase expressed serious doubts about the legitimacy of Bernard L. Madoff’s investment business more than 18 months before his Ponzi scheme collapsed but continued to …
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., …