The above photo is from the Egyptian protests this week. Hat tip to Robert A. Wicks. (I am not sure if he made the poster. If someone knows the author of this photo/poster, please advise and will give fuller credit). Here is a link to a great two-minute video produced by Tamer Shaaban. It is [...]
Forty minutes after the start of the official curfew — 4 pm — tens of thousands of Egyptians are gathering in Cairo’s  Liberation Square, while the army — which, according to this eyewitness account, has a rather sparse presence — is simply standing by. One tank commander said the tanks in the streets are not [...]
It is great to see so many people with the courage to risk all defying a corrupt, oppressive government. It is great to see the party headquarters of a corrupt regime going up in flames. And it is great to see American politicians squirming as the authoritarian tool they have bankrolled for 30 years totters [...]
Neocon Marc Ginsberg, former US ambassador to Morocco, appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” the Chris Matthews show masquerading as an “expert” — as Matthews called him — descrying theEgyptian  uprising as a plaything in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. This is not at all surprising: Ginsberg is the same guy who described the Tunisian uprising as representing Al Jazeera’s [...]
The “President” of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, has finally made a public statement broadcast by state-controlled television. The transcription is by me, so it’s not letter-perfect, but you get the general idea: Hosni speaks: We need to stand and take a pose [?] with conscience. I have heard the demands cried and voiced by the people[ and gave] [...]
Via Al Jazeera: The Egyptian army is coalescing around Cairo’s NDP headquarters, as well as the adjoining Museum of Antiquities: with the former practically razed to the ground, a burning shell, the latter is apparently now being threatened. It’s interesting to note that there was a complete lack of fire trucks for many hours around [...]
