Category: Egypt

NOVANEWS   by Michael Leon   Ben Shahn’s (1898-1967) Allegory (1948) depicts The Lion of Judah standing guard over the Jewish victims. Now, Israel has become the tyrant and the people of Egypt and an entire […]

NOVANEWS     01. Egyptian anti-government protesters clash with riot police at the port city of Suez, about 134 km (83 miles) east of Cairo, January 27, 2011. Police fired rubber bullets, water cannon and […]

NOVANEWS     Mohamed ElBaradei addresses the crowd at Tahrir … AP/PHOTO Protests in Egypt against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak is entering its eighth day today. Reports say thousands of protesters will again […]

NOVANEWS   Gilad Atzmon   – Haaretz reported today that  “Israel urges the world to curb criticism of Egypt’s Mubarak.” Apparently Jerusalem seeks to convince its allies that it is in the ‘West’s interest’ to maintain the stability […]

NOVANEWS   My Truthout essay on the political economy of the protests. Egypt is throbbing with resistance. Cairo is cloven between the forces of revolution and those of counterrevolution. Hundreds of thousands of people – on Tuesday, […]

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross     Is the Revolution Legitimate Populist Rebellion, or Part of a Plan to ‘Balkanize’ Egypt By Michael Collins Piper   http://michaelcollinspiper.podbean.com   If there is anything that can be said about the crisis in […]

NOVANEWS     So who are these people? asks Egyptian author Adhaf Soueif. In support of the president, they throw Molotov bottles and plant pots from the tops of buildings onto the heads of women […]

NOVANEWS  Earlier today, hired thugs threw Molotov cocktails at peaceful protesters in Tahrir Square, and men on camels and horses rode into the crowd with batons, injuring people and hoping to sow chaos, and thereby […]

NOVANEWS   Eight days into the revolt in Egypt and we are seeing Zionist Mu-Barak marshal his forces against the peaceful protesters. Zionist Mu-Barak and his clique were caught off guard by the speed and […]

NOVANEWS Dear All,   Demand President Obama immediately pressure the U.S.-backed Egyptian military to protect peaceful protesters in Egypt.   Add more pressure: Call the White House   Today, peaceful anti-government protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir […]