Egypt’s Islamists Take Commanding Lead in Elections VOA News Partial results for Egypt’s first round of parliamentary elections reveal Islamist parties leading with 65 percent of the party-list votes, a stronger than expected showing that puts liberal groups on the defensive. The figures released Sunday by Egypt’s High Election Commission put the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom [...]
Tag: Egypt
December 4, 2011
June 12, 2011
VOA’s Digital Tweaks Get Mixed Signals
As the government’s Voice of America broadcasting services undergo a 21st-century digital makeover, some proposed moves away from radio transmission to Web-casting and Facebook are causing static on Capitol Hill, The New York Times reports. Walter Isaacson, the veteran D.C. journalist who now runs the propaganda agency, is discovering that traditional VOA affiliates such as [...]
May 19, 2011
March 31, 2011
Gaddafi ‘not at breaking point’
Pro-Gaddafi forces are locked in a pattern of advances and retreats in the east Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi’s armed forces are not close to breaking point despite hundreds of allied air strikes, American military chiefs have said. Adm Mike Mullen told a US Congress committee Col Gaddafi’s troops still had 10 times the rebels’ firepower. [...]
March 31, 2011
March 28, 2011
Would American Politicians Step Down Also?
Estimates suggest that Mubarak resigned amid as many as 2 million protesters in the streets. This is about 3% of Egypt’s population. If the United States saw similar turnouts at Federal and State government buildings, would our leadership resign without a fight as well? Are we to believe that the same logic being used to [...]
March 23, 2011
Clinton pledges to aid Tunisia reforms
Hillary Clinton, left, met Tunisia’s interim president Fouad Mebazaa at the presidential palace in Tunis [AFP] The US secretary of state has pledged to help Tunisia undertake political and economic reforms, as she visited the country two months after mass protests led to the overthrow of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Hillary Clinton praised the Tunisian people’s [...]
March 20, 2011
Egyptians approve constitutional changes
Egyptians approved on Sunday constitutional changes, the head of the supreme judicial committee Mohammed Ahmed Attiyah said. Egypt’s ex-President Hosni Mubarak stepped down on February 11 after 18 days of large-scale anti-government protests throughout Egypt, which left more than 360 people dead and about 5,500 injured. The amendments allow Egypt’s military rulers to move swiftly [...]
March 20, 2011
Yemeni president dismisses government
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh dismissed on Sunday the government of Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, SABA Yemeni news agency reported. The president pledged to put a new constitution to a referendum this year and create a parliamentary system in the country, world media reported Thursday. The opposition subsequently rejected the offer. The opposition demands the [...]
March 20, 2011
Main news of March 20
Russia: * Radiation levels were within the norm in the Russian Far East despite radiation leaks from Japan’s Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant severely affected by last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry reported * Sochi 2014 Olympics’ mascot snow leopard is a symbol of a new Russia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said [...]
February 28, 2011
U.S. Inflation Caused Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya Unrest…
The National Inflation Association (NIA) announced in its November 5th, 2010, food price projection report that food inflation would take over as America’s biggest crisis in calendar year 2011, surpassing the mortgage crisis and high unemployment, which were the top economic concerns of Americans in 2010. NIA’s food price projection report received worldwide media attention [...]
February 2, 2011
Why Not Freedom of All Persons Everywhere Now?
Why don’t Egyptians seize the moment and create freedom for themselves – their Persons – now? By freedom for Persons, I don’t mean democracy or a so-called free society or a society under some government, be it democratic or democratic-socialist or theocratic or autocratic or whatever. I don’t mean elections, coalitions, parties, votes, leaders, taxes, [...]
January 31, 2011
Who Woulda Thunk – America and Israel in a mess…
Cairo Anger starting to focus on Israel, US: Saturday’s optimism on the streets of Cairo for imminent political change gave way to anger on Sunday, as thousands of demonstrators became increasingly frustrated with the lack of response from major world leaders, especially the US. During the main protest on Sunday in downtown Cairo, one man [...]
August 12, 2010
Iran Reveals US, Israel Pressures on Egypt to Deny Visa for MPs…
Image via Wikipedia TEHRAN (FNA)- Member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Parviz Sorouri revealed US and the Zionist regime’s pressures on Egypt no to issue visas for the Iranian MPs planning to visit Gaza in support for Palestinian people. The Iranian lawmaker said Egypt has yet to issue visa for [...]