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Medea Benjamin: Learning from Cairo
February 10, 2011"I had the feeling it might happen," says Medea Benjamin of the ongoing revolution in Egypt. Recently back from Cairo, Medea has been traveling through Egypt to get to Gaza for a while, and she says that the feeling in that country was of too many people angry, frustrated, and willing to fight their government to go on another 30 years without fighting back.Khaled Fahmy, Medea Benjamin, and City of Joy
February 9, 2011The revolution in Egypt at first was less about poverty and labor than it was about police brutality and the mistreatment of the people by a repressive regime. But now, Khaled Fahmy notes, the growing labor movement in Egypt is coming to the fore, following two years of concerted effort and protest by workers across the country.Philip Rizk, Eugene Jarecki on Reagan, and Al Jazeera
February 7, 2011"The negotiations really are just a form of propaganda to the international community to give the regime some sort of cover for their desire to hold on to power," says Philip Rizk of talks between Mubarak and so-called opposition forces. He notes that scaremongering continues over the Muslim Brotherhood's role in the talks, but that the protesters that continue to occupy Tahrir Square are opposed to talks and mostly do not support the Brotherhood.The F Word: Media Miss the Al Jazeera Story
February 7, 2011One of the biggest stories of the past few weeks has been the story of Americans discovering Al-Jazeera English. It shouldn't have been so hard.
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