Egypt: will US dump Mubarak?
…of calls in the US Congress for Mubarak to step down immediately. (Middle East Online, Middle East Online, AFP, AFP, Feb. 4) See our last post on Egypt. Please leave…
…of calls in the US Congress for Mubarak to step down immediately. (Middle East Online, Middle East Online, AFP, AFP, Feb. 4) See our last post on Egypt. Please leave…
…1,169 have been killed, including at least 370 children, and 85 women. There have been more than 5,015 injured, including at least 1,745 children. (Middle East Online, Ma’an News Agency,…
…make up 20 percent of the population, are Palestinians who remained in the country following the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, along with their descendants. (Middle East Online,…
A court in China on Dec. 26 convicted a prominent online activist and a human rights lawyer on subversion charges, after holding them for two years. Activist Wu Gan, known on…
…since the Israeli offensive began 11 days ago has now reached 160. (Middle East Online, Jan. 6) Babies face hypothermia risk The British aid organization Save the Children warned that…
…the dead are civilians, the UN says. (Middle East Online, Jan. 1) Israeli strikes also targeted the Legislative Assembly building and the Justice Ministry, and there were reports of damage…
…heroics when a riot broke out at an aid distribution center (while the accompanying online video lingers lovingly on blood gushing from a child’s facial injury): Our correspondent managed to…
…snipers and street fighting. (Middle East Online, The Guardian, March 23) Representatives of the Libyan opposition’s Interim National Council spoke in Paris on plans for a post-Qaddafi government. “The future…
…to protect Jews. (Middle East Online, National Catholic Reporter, Reuters’ FaithWorld blog, Oct. 9) *“Charity” is National Catholic Reporter’s term, while Middle East Online—along with AFP and CathNews—uses the word…
…anyway, he asserted, minutes after warning that al-Qaeda is on the brink of taking power: “Peace and security hold sway in a large part of Libya.” (Middle East Online, March…
…began in 2014 the use of “black propaganda” by both sides. So online propaganda partisans will believe what they will. However, before we so readily dismiss the chemwar claims from…
…and have now reached Sidney. More than a thousand people sign the www.nonviolence.cz online petition everyday. European reporters are arriving in the Czech Republic to cover this new Prague Spring…