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...
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...
Ron Paul: Cut All Foreign Aid (video)
Ron Paul spoke to Neil Cavuto on Fox News:
Egyptian Heroine: “We Do Not Trust a Govt. That Sends Thugs to Kill Us.”
I just listened to a live interview on Al Jazeera English with a 23-year-old woman in Tahrir Square. The pro-Mubarak forces are apparently pounding the anti-Mubarak demonstators in the Square with gunfire this night. The Al-Jazeera host asked why she and other...
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...
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...
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...
Egyptians on Israel Peace Treaty
Several Egyptians shown on various networks have said they reject the treaty with Israel. It's also been cited in articles I have been reading for days. I just want to make the point that the peace treaty fosters Egyptian collaboration with Israel in its oppression of...
Rachel Maddow Supports Aid to Mubarak
So you thought it was only the wackos on the neocon right who support Mubarak? Wrong! I'm listening right now to Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's resident ultra-liberal, attack Rand Paul for being "offshore" because he calls for ending the $1.5 billion in "aid" to the Egyptian...
Tuesday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 1st, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Max Boot writes, “[I]t does scant justice to the complexity of the situation to claim that Mr. Mubarak was a...
