CLEARING OUT CAIRO August 15, 2013
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Egypt had an election two years ago with President Morsi’s election, and now Cairo’s Nahda Square and the space adjoining The Rabaa al-Adawija Mosque are filled with smoke from burning tyres, Police and Army vehicles and bulldozers with protesters.
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DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION, OR NOT? July 4, 2013
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Public protest has developed in countries where dissatisfaction was unexpected, at least by those in power, notably in Turkey and Brazil. In recent days, the protests and counter protests in Egypt, if only because of the their size, have gained attention.
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EGYPTIAN PROTEST CONTINUE November 24, 2011
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The efforts of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to suppress protest by violence causing death and injury has been counterproductive.
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TAHRIR SQUARE CONFLICT November 22, 2011
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The protesters in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt are, it seems, attempting to take on the police and army with their rubber bullets and tear gas with stones.
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PROTECTING THE PEOPLE OF SIRTE September 6, 2011
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Ostensibly the purpose of the no-fly zone over Libya was to protect the civilian population from a government that sought to attack them and kill many of them by artillery fire and aerial bombing.
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WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO LIBYA? August 30, 2011
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Could it be that the Libyan War we have witnessed at a distance was not primarily a civil uprising, despite Gaddafi’s 42 years in government, but another example of active neo-imperialism from the usual suspects Britain, France and the United States?
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WHAT NEXT FOR LIBYA? August 24, 2011
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It appears that the Gaddafi Government has been defeated, at least the rebels hold large areas of Tripoli.
LIBYAN WAR TO END? August 15, 2011
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Reports are suggesting that the rebel forces are making relatively easy gains and the Gaddafi Government is collapsing.
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LIBYAN WAR TO END? May 27, 2011
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The Libyan Government based in Tripoli is now prepared to make concessions to end the civil war, and the UN endorsed and Nato aerial bombing campaign designed to save civilians.
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OIL IT WAS AND IS April 20, 2011
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The Guardian reports Nato has sent a British and French advisory team to Benghazi to advise the anti-Gaddafi forces on “intelligence gathering, logistics and communications”. In the meanwhile bombing continues to protect civilians.
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SUNK IN LIBYA April 12, 2011
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Long story short: peace is not an option. That at least is what the proponents of the Libyan intervention argue, despite the fact that the African Union delegation, led by South African President Zuma appears to have got Muammur Gaddafi’s approval for a ceasefire.
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LIBERTY AND A NO-FLY ZONE March 25, 2011
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The violence that has rained down upon Libya orchestrated by the mandate of the Security Council does not seemed to have solved the problem of violence on the ground.
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WHY LIBYA? March 23, 2011
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Why is the bombing of Libya continuing, given that it was supposedly intended to protect civilians?
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ATTACK ON LIBYA March 20, 2011
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An alliance of military powers, including France, the United Kingdom and the United States, have launched air and missile strikes on targets in Libya.
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TRIPOLI VOLTE-FACE March 19, 2011
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So who is running the show from Tripoli? Is it the crazy person who suggested that terrorism would be spread across the Mediterranean? Or more “forensic” minds?
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GADDAFI AND ALGERIA March 4, 2011
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The situation for Muammar Gaddafi holed up in Tripoli is not as hopeless as it might seem, and consequently his fall not so inexorable. He has it seems the support of the Algerian Regime (together with the mediating efforts of Hugo Chavez).
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THE GENERALS AND THE “DEMOS” February 26, 2011
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Now it seems the Egyptian Revolution has entered a second phase.
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GADDAFI BLAMES BIN LADEN February 25, 2011
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Muammar Gaddafi is blaming bin Laden, the young and drugs for the recent events in Libya in an address over the State television broadcaster. (Apparently the speech was made by phone – can you believe it. I did not understand what I was watching).
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CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST February 22, 2011
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The dictator of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, is now as good as gone, although in a vain attempt to retain power, but not legitimacy, the massacre of people may continue. The problem will be then to form a new government, albeit an transitional arrangement.
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