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Chris Hedges on “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America”

  Chris Hedges’s new book examines how Christian dominionists are seeking absolute power and a Christian state. According to Hedges, the movement bears a strong resemblance to the young fascist

Explosion of strikes rocks Egyptian firms

  Thousands have walked off their jobs in a nation where such work stoppages are illegal -- and many have won raises, benefits Textile workers in Kafr el-Dawwar went on

Coptic Intellectual Writes About: El Shater, and MB Detainees

Tyranny is still widespread all over Egypt, destroying everything, curbing freedoms, polluting even the pure air, …nothing remains….except prisons that have been hosting, during more than half a century, thousands

4 Menoufiya MB Businessmen Arrested

The Egyptian security forces arrested, on Tuesday, four MB businessmen. The state security forces in Menoufiya, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, arrested four Muslim Brotherhood (MB) businessmen. 

Rain Song. By: Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb

Your eyes are two palm tree forests in early light,Or two balconies from which the moonlight recedesWhen they smile, your eyes, the vines put forth their eaves,And lights dance .. 

Should MB Seek Int’l Protection Against Gov’t Oppression?

Counselor Noha Othman El-Zeiny is a brave judge who broke the barrier of silence and blew the whistle on election rigging and fraud during the 2005 Egyptian parliamentary elections. El-Zeiny

Mostafa Al-Feqi..Khairat Al Shater…Other Amendments

Counselor Noha Othman El-Zeiny is a brave judge who broke the barrier of silence and blew the whistle on election rigging and fraud during 2005 Egyptian parliamentary elections. El-Zeiny obtained

Urgent Call for the release of Abdul Jabbar al-Allawi

A source close to the Syrian citizen Abdul Jabbar s/o Ahmed al-Allawi wrote to the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC), requesting to know the fate of the abovementioned citizen and

6. Arab Dictators

The Middle East’s strongmen were under pressure to reform. Now, they rest easy.The failure of U.S. policy in Iraq has provided autocratic regimes in the Middle East a reprieve from

Blogs Against Military Rulers

The fierce security campaign that the Egyptian regime is launching against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group and transferring 40 MB leaders to military tribunals in addition to arresting hundreds of