April 29, 2013
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Egypt has walked out of a round of global nuclear talks in protest at what it called the failure to implement a 1995 resolution for a Middle East as a zone free of nuclear weapons.

A statement from Egypt’s foreign ministry on Monday said the nation ended its participation in two weeks of Geneva talks out of frustration that the zone has yet to be created. The talks run through this week.

“We can’t wait forever for the implementation of this decision,” said the ministry’s statement on Monday night, explaining that Egypt’s walkout was meant to send a message to the world that it can no longer accept what it considers to be a lack of seriousness on the issue.

But establishing the Middle East as a zone free of nuclear weapons has long been an elusive goal.

US and Israeli officials have said a nuclear arms-free zone in the Middle East could not be a reality until there was broad Arab-Israeli peace and Iran curbed its nuclear programme, which Tehran says is for peaceful energy and research purposes.

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— http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/04/201342922453324367.html

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Filed under: Middle East Syria Egypt Israel United States of America USA Arab World Muslim 
January 30, 2013
anarcho-queer: Evidence of police shooting rockets at protesters in Cairo, Egypt.

anarcho-queer:

Evidence of police shooting rockets at protesters in Cairo, Egypt.

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Filed under: Police Repression ARab Spring Violence Egypt Middle East Arab Muslim World 
January 28, 2013
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Egypt’s senate on Monday ratified a law that would grant the armed forces powers of arrest.

In Port Said, however, Al Jazeera’s Rageh reported that the army was not enforcing the curfew.

“Thousands poured into the streets when the curfew went into effect, in clear defiance of President Morsi in all three cities,” she reported late on Monday.

“The military has completely pulled back, and in some instances even allowed protesters to pose for pictures on tanks in the streets. They do not appear to be trying to enforce the curfew in the streets of Port Said.”

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— http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/01/20131281468917495.html

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Filed under: Egypt Egyptian Revolution Arab Spring Middle East Muslim World Travel Wanderlust Protest Resistance 
January 26, 2013
fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Cairo, Egypt: Underground train station near Tahrir Square blocked by protesters, January 25, 2013.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Cairo, Egypt: Underground train station near Tahrir Square blocked by protesters, January 25, 2013.

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Filed under: Cairo Egyptian Revolution Progress Warfare Combat Egypt 
January 26, 2013
fotojournalismus: Protesters flee from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes after protesters removed a concrete barrier at Qasr al-Aini Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 24, 2013. [Credit : Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters]

fotojournalismus:

Protesters flee from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes after protesters removed a concrete barrier at Qasr al-Aini Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 24, 2013.

[Credit : Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters]

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Filed under: Cairo Egypt Protest Resistance Resistence 
November 27, 2012
thepeoplesrecord: This is Tahrir Square in Cairo right now: occupied, lively & packed with protesters.  Anti-Morsi demonstrators filled the Square last night after a decree issued on Thursday expanded his powers and shielded his decisions from any sort of judicial review until the election of a new parliament expected in the first half of 2013. “We don’t want a dictatorship again. The Mubarak regime was a dictatorship. We had a revolution to have justice and freedom,” 32-year-old Ahmed Husseini said in Cairo. Click here to watch a livestream of Tahrir.

thepeoplesrecord:

This is Tahrir Square in Cairo right now: occupied, lively & packed with protesters. 

Anti-Morsi demonstrators filled the Square last night after a decree issued on Thursday expanded his powers and shielded his decisions from any sort of judicial review until the election of a new parliament expected in the first half of 2013.

“We don’t want a dictatorship again. The Mubarak regime was a dictatorship. We had a revolution to have justice and freedom,” 32-year-old Ahmed Husseini said in Cairo.

Click here to watch a livestream of Tahrir.

(via anarcho-queer)

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Filed under: Egypt Tahrir Revolution November 27 Cairo Protest 
November 15, 2012
"The American focus is getting the Egyptians to pull Hamas back, and making sure the Egyptians themselves do not do anything precipitous that could seriously damage the peace accords,” said a western diplomat in the region. “The Americans recognise that there has to be a certain latitude for Morsi because he faces his own pressures to take a tougher stand with Israel."

— There is no fucking reason for the West to expect Hamas to pull back when Israel has CONTINUOUSLY EXPANDED VIA ILLEGAL MEANS.  The only just option would be to step back, freeze our financial support with Israel, and work towards making Israel’s neighbors (INCLUDING Palestine…) militarily comperable to Israel, so that they could actually express their views.  Anyone who believes in treating other human beings the way Israel (and her US allies) do way deserves little more than the same treatment we’d met out to Nazis or supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa.  Including anyone who’d give money to a Jewish Organization or charity supporting Israel.

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Filed under: Israel Genocide Occupation Apartheid Hamas Palestine Gaza Egypt Middle East Muslim Arab World 
August 22, 2012
"Economic historians have argued that Egypt was well-placed to undertake rapid economic development at the same time that the U.S. was. Both had rich agriculture, including cotton, the fuel of the early industrial revolution — though unlike Egypt, the U.S. had to develop cotton production and a work force by conquest, extermination, and slavery, with consequences that are evident right now in the reservations for the survivors and the prisons that have rapidly expanded since the Reagan years to house the superfluous population left by deindustrialization."

— Noam Chomsky (http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/13-3)

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Filed under: Chomsky Egypt United States Imperialism Capitalism Racism Communism SOcialism 
July 22, 2012
"You could stop your politicians selling arms to the people who are shooting us."

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Egyptian activist Salma Said’s answer when she was asked what people in the West could do to help with the Arab Revolution. “Said spoke from experience: she was hospitalised after being shot during protests that followed the Port Said football stadium tragedy that left at least 74 people dead.”

The fact that women’s rights have been hijacked for the purposes of liberal interventionists should be a concern to women in the West. We should therefore tread carefully when supporting politicians who make pronouncements about democracy and human rights, ensuring that we always read the small print. In this respect, the arms trade is a feminist issue.

Read this.

(via mehreenkasana)

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Filed under: united states foreign policy egypt egyptian revolution arab spring 
July 8, 2012

It is truly fucking amazing to be back in Tahrir square. My god Egypt, I do love you..

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Filed under: egypt egyptian revolution arab spring travel wanderlust 
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