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Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 25 May 2012 in UncategorizedTags: austerity, cartoon, Egypt, election, Europe, Greece, politics, rich, United States
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Beyond “Mubarakism without Mubarak”
Posted: 21 March 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Egypt, military, peasants, protests, revolution, workers
I have argued that the fate of the revolution in Egypt depends not on the “national-development-oriented coalition of businessmen and military entrepreneurs” but on the much larger group of workers in the cities and peasants in the countryside who were the victims of the economic policies of the Mubarak regime. Sasha Simic makes a similar [...]
Thousands of protesters marched on the Interior Ministry in Cairo as Egypt continued three days of mourning Thursday for 74 people killed in a football riot that renewed anger against the nation’s police and ruling military council.
Egyptians commemorate the first anniversary of the Tahrir Square revolution
Cartoons of the year
Posted: 31 December 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, crisis, debt, Egypt, Europe, inequality, Libya, Obama, Occupy Wall Street
Women in Cairo
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 28 November 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, Egypt, inequality, Occupy Wall Street, protests, rich, taxes
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 27 November 2011 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, Egypt, politics, United States
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Egypt The authorities hoped that the protesters would exhaust themselves and go home, but they have not. The military tried violence, but it has not worked. It has tried limited concessions, but they did not work. And it has blamed foreigners for inciting the violence, and that did not work.
