Earlier, it was announced that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would address the nation, but there's no sign of him. Is he getting his Boeing jet ready to take off -- or, as one Arab paper is reporting, has that plane already taken off en route to London? Update: Al...
Robert Gibbs on the Egyptian events: via Al Jazeera: Has Obama spoken to Mubarak? -- Gibbs is blithering: a "national security memo" has been given to the Prez, a meeting was held. But, no, they haven't spoken. Does the Prez stand by his Egyptian buddy? -- Gibbs says...
Al Jazeera -- an invaluable tool in covering the Egyptian revolution -- reports all incoming flights have been suspended.
The Israeli government reacts: "'We believe that Egypt is going to overcome the current wave of demonstrations, but we have to look to the future,' says the minister in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel enjoys diplomatic relations and...
In the heyday of the War Party's triumphalism, when George W. Bush launched his war to "liberate" Iraq, the neocons were predicting a regional revolution in the Arab states that would overthrow anti-American governments from Iraq to Syria to Iran? Well, the...
Our narrow-minded and ineffably smug pundits have been wrong, wrong, wrong about the Egyptian upsurge. Yes, I know, you're shocked -- shocked! They said it couldn't and wouldn't be done, and this "conventional wisdom" was echoed by Hillary Clinton and her clueless...
Here's our Vice President, clueless as ever: "“Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things. And he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interest in the region, the Middle East peace efforts; the actions Egypt has taken relative to...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 28th, 2011: The Atlantic: Jeffrey Goldberg lists his observations on the ongoing events in Egypt and mentions that friends of his, like FDD fellow Reuel Marc Gerecht, advocate that democratically...
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for January 26th, 2011: National Review Online: Foundation for Defense of Democracies President Clifford May writes about the controversy surrounding a scheduled screening of the Clarion Fund’s film,...
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