ObamaCare Update: Florida Federal Judge Rules Individual Mandate is Unconstitutional

“… I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate. That is not to say, of course, that Congress is without power to address the problems and inequities in our health care system. The health care market is more than one sixth of the [...]

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So What Happened to that Wikileak™ About a Major Bank? How About the Swiss Bank Documents?

Just asking. What happened to those big ground breaking “revelations” from the latest hero product, Julian Assange? Guess Rudolf Elmer should have given his stuff to Cryptome, huh?

Feb. 1, 2011 – The Miraflores Moment of the Egyptian Revolution?

by Scott Creighton UPDATES Tomorrow will be the definitive day in the historic revolution taking place in Egypt.

Bullshit Mr. Gibbs – Reflections on a Press Conference

by Scott Creighton White House Propaganda Minister Robert Gibbs just gave a press conference on the situation in Egypt. Though he did his best to say next to nothing you can figure out the Obama administration’s position if you read between the lines and if you  know what is happening in Egypt. The first thing [...]

Mike Huckabee speaks “very Zionistically” in Israeli Knesset, condemns Egyptian uprising

(Mike Huckabee claims the people revolting on the streets of Egypt are the “real threat” to Israel.) by Max Blumenthal Mike Huckabee was in Jerusalem today on an important junket related to his likely presidential campaign. He used his speech before the Knesset to denounce the Egyptian uprising as a threat to all humankind, warning [...]

Israel Tells U.S. and Other Nations to Support Mubarak

Israel seeks support for Mubarak: report from AFP Israel has told its diplomats in the United States, Europe and elsewhere to encourage their host nations to support the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, daily Haaretz reported Monday. The newspaper said Israel’s foreign ministry told its diplomats to stress that it is in “the interest [...]

Mubarak’s “New” Cabinet

The “more open and democratic society” – peaceful political reform? Peaceful? Vice President Omar Suleiman  NEW former contact between Washington and Mubarak linked to CIA Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik  NEW former air force commander Finance Minister Samir Radwan  NEW Interior Minister Mahmoud Wagdy NEW former Assistant Interior Minister and Head of Prisons Minister of Antiquities [...]

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Mahmoud Wagdy, New Interior Minister of Egypt, Oversaw The Police State

Looks like Mubarak is doubling down on repression rather than expanding democracy and freedoms. While General Mahmoud Wagdy was Assistant to the Minister of Interior and Director of the Prison Authority, this Feb 2005 report was created in the State Department ( Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor) about conditions inside Egypt: (excerpts) torture: “In June, [...]

Protest at the Square Gains in Size

watch the coverage here Mubarak appointed Mahmoud Wagdy, retired high-ranking police official as Minister of Interior. He was connected with the Egyptian prison system and the secret police.  Combined with the new vice president who was connected with the CIA, this seems to be a deliberate slap in the face of the people protesting Mubarak’s [...]

Israeli officials phone Mubarak’s new VP

Ma’an News Agency Israeli officials have telephoned Hosni Mubarak’s newly appointed vice president Omar Suleiman several times urging Egypt to maintain previous security coordination, Israeli media said. The discussions were over Egypt’s role on the Israeli border and Gaza smuggling tunnels, the Israeli daily Maariv reported. [read the rest, here]

Palestinian Authority Disrupts Egypt Solidarity Protest in Ramallah

Human Rights Watch Palestinian Authority security forces shut down a demonstration on January 30, 2011, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Ramallah, after calling in one of the organizers for questioning multiple times on January 29 and ordering him to cancel the event notice that he had created on Facebook. Human Rights Watch monitored [...]

In Yemen, calls for revolution but many hurdles

Washington Post The pro-democracy protesters marched through the dusty streets of this Middle Eastern capital, voicing hope that the revolution unfolding in the Arab world would soon reach them. “Yesterday, Tunisia. Today, Egypt. Tomorrow, Yemen,” they shouted, trying to make their way to the Egyptian embassy. [read the rest, here]

Rachid Ghannouchi returns to Tunisia after exile

Global Post Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi returned to Tunisia Sunday after 22 years in exile as the country works to establish a new government after the ousting of the president weeks ago. … President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali jailed or exiled thousands of Islamists during the past two decades. He exiled Ghannouchi in 1989, a [...]