Obama’s Egypt Plan: Mubarak-ism Without Mubarak

With the Obama administration trying to impose Mubarak-ism with Mubarak, easing the old lizard-headed dictator out and ushering in Omar Suleiman -- recently appointed Vice President and formerly Egypt's top intelligence official and torturer-in-chief --  there may...

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Huffpo Headline Helps Hosni

I see the Huffington Post has another one of their over-sized screaming headlines: "'Day of Departure -- Will Massive March Force Mubarak's Hand?" Yes, that's right, Arianna -- you airhead -- Mubarak will be "forced" to kill, jail, and repress the protesters in Tahrir...

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Take the Frum Test

Former Bush speechwriter David "Axis of Evil" Frum, the neocon who today poses as a "moderate" Republican, writes: "There’s a lot of heady talk in the US media right now, from both liberals and conservatives, about the possibilities in Cairo. We all share those...

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Egypt: The Dealmakers

The New York Times and others are reporting that the Obama administration is working on a plan to get Mubarak out and usher in his Vice President, Omar Suleiman, the former head of Egypt's feared intelligence service. That Suleiman is the embodiment of the torture...

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Thursday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 3rd, 2011: National Review Online: Foreign Policy Initiative Executive Director Jamie M. Fly opines that the possibility of the Muslim Brotherhood taking control in Egypt is concerning “but...

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Wednesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 2nd, 2011: The New York Times: Yossi Klein Halevi, a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and a contributing editor at The New Republic, writes, “Israelis fear that Egypt will go the way of...

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Mossad in Egypt?

The Jerusalem Post reports: "Two Swedish reporters were held for hours on Wednesday by Egyptian soldiers accusing them of being Mossad spies, the reporters' employer, daily newspaper Aftonbladet, reported. The soldiers reportedly attacked the reporters, spitting in...

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The Mailed Fist

In Egypt we see the true nature of the State -- all States, everywhere -- revealed as the mask is dropped and Mubarak's hired thugs (paid for with your tax dollars, my friends) wreak mayhem on peaceful demonstrators. Mubarak supporters  must have been listening to...

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