I have said before and I will repeat again that it is I believe Obama is a 3ars and this political masturbation is going no where. Obama mentions Gaza situation by the by and only in answer to one of the questions and as if nothing happened 5 months ago.
A hilarious posts that raises deep academic questions: "How much of this antipathy is attributable to deliberate misinformation, and poor education, and media which loves a sensation? Does what is ostensibly over zealous nationalism mask a deep insecurity, even a loss of identity?"
The original decree was that the Zabaleen would be compensated for the pigs, but now they are saying that since they can sell the pigs, they will not be compensated.
Egypt is ahead of industrialized nations walahy.
They say the ANC wants to change the constitution to make it harder to prosecute politicians for corruption.
whoa .. this is a must read.
May '68 was a political failure for the protesters, but it had an enormous social impact. In France, it is considered to be the watershed moment when a conservative moral ideal (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) shifted towards a more liberal moral ideal (equality, sexual liberation, human rights) that today better describes French society, in theory if not in practice. Although this change did not take place solely in this one month, the term mai 68 is used to refer to this general shift in principles, especially when referring to its most idealistic aspects.
Which goes to prove that “democracy promotion” is a policy that’s in need of a serious rethink: “pressure” doesn’t really work, and autocracies have time on their side
Chomsky on Gaza.
Absolutists who violently rejected offers of money or peace for sacred land were considerably more inclined to accept deals that involved their enemies making symbolic but difficult gestures. For example, Palestinian hard-liners were more willing to consider recognizing the right of Israel to exist if the Israelis simply offered an official apology for Palestinian suffering in the 1948 war. Similarly, Israeli respondents said they could live with a partition of Jerusalem and borders very close to those that existed before the 1967 war if Hamas and the other major Palestinian groups explicitly recognized Israel’s right to exist.
According to Summerfield, half the population in Gaza have "basically spent some time in [Israeli] detention, some of them for years." The proportion of the Gazan adult male population interrogated and tortured, he adds, is probably higher than any population in the world.
There has also been a backlash to the backlash against Egypt prompted by protests outside Egyptian embassies demonstrating against Egypt's policy in general, but its failure to open its border in particular. Funnily enough, many of the people I know who have taken umbrage at the attacks from abroad and are now banging the nationalist tub are the very same individuals who are most critical of the way that domestic issues are handled by the current regime.
The EIPR's analysis of the new bill finds it generally in conformity with human rights standards, including the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1991.
In 2000, EPRDF set fire haphazardly to all Oromia forests, including Bale forest which was recognized by UNESCO for its endemic fauna and flora. The Oromo students from elementary and high schools, and universities protested this atrocity referred to by conservationist as ‘ecological genocide’. The response to the student protest, as Human Rights Watch reported, was bloodshed. Similarly in 2001, police killed more than 30 people and wounded an estimated 400 more in putting down a student demonstration at the Addis Ababa University . In 2002, police opened machine-gun fire on protesters in Awassa, killing an estimated 38 people. Many students were kept in prison for months without ever being brought to court, a clear violation of human rights and the constitution of the regime itself in a manner …
Daily News Egypt saw one protestor — who was initially struggling — beaten into unconsciousness by the four men in plain clothing who were removing him.
By Ahmed Abdallah
The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur.
An FAQ about how to deal with police in Egypt. Flash version, can be read directly.
Doctors say they are torn between working with integrity and trying to survive financially.
A photoset on flickr
Ahdaf Soueif's diary of a long, hot summer of protest that shows no sign of ending
نتائج المرحلة الأولى للانتخابات البرلمانية
2005
إحتجاجهم المستمر على الفساد في إدارة المستشفى وتدني الخدمة الصحية بها.
الاحتجاج على السياسات التي تتبعها الدكتورة نبيلة الشيخ عميدة كلية طب البنات بجامعة الأزهر ونائبتها الدكتورة نجلاء مختار ومعاملتها القاسي
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