…and Assiut. Egyptians on Twitter used #EgyChurch to crowd-source images and reports of attacks on churches. (Ahram Online, Ahram Online, Middle East Online, BBC News, Aug. 15; Al Jazeera, Aug. 12) Please support our fund drive….
Bill Weinberg Petition for Electoral Nullification The petition “Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19” is online at Change.org. It has won 2,010,778 signatures, of the 3 million it…
…online statements denouncing government policies, as well as organizing discussion groups. (AFP) Bill Weinberg Attempted coup in Beijing? From The Guardian, Aug. 4: Rumours have swirled in Beijing in recent weeks…
…Russia designates independent news site as ‘foreign agent’ Russia designated the independent online news site VTimes a “foreign agent” on May 14, placing the media company under increased scrutiny by…
Sudan‘s security forces arrested a Somali insurgent leader while he was attempting to cross the border to Eritrea, the Somali news website Mareeg Online reported March 14 from Mogadishu. Muse…
…writing a poem urging people to support freedom. The court ruled that Zhu Yufu’s poem It’s Time, sent using the Skype online chat service, deserved stern punishment, according to his…
…an economics professor at the Central University for Nationalities and founder of the website Uyghur Online, said the plainclothes agents sought to persuade him to stop speaking to foreign reporters. “I’ve…
…oil sources online requires periodic price spikes. So both the Peaksters and the Cornucopians just don’t get it. Oil-Price.net tells us the current price is just shy of $92 per barrel—about…
…trials of old regime officials. (Middle East Online, July 1) Hundreds of thousands also marched across Yemen on Friday to demand the departure of all figures in the regime of…
…country.” (Middle East Online, Jan. 24) Morsi meanwhile delivered a speech at Cairo’s Azhar Conference Hall celebrating Mulid Al-Nabi, the holiday marking the birth of Prophet Muhammad, during which he charged…
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, Nov. 26 (with some very gruesome photos of the autopsy online): The family of slain Indymedia journalist Brad Will has renewed its call…
…who amass there each Friday. (Middle East Online, AlJazeera, RFE/RL, June 10) The previous day, fighting between Saleh-loyalist troops and tribesmen who have thrown in their lot with the protest…
