The street revolts in Tunisia and Egypt show that the United States can do very little to save its friends from the wrath of their citizens. By Aluf Benn Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as “the president who lost Iran,” which during his term went from being a major strategic ally...
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Ben Grubb and Asher Moses January 31, 2011 – 1:20PM As Egypt’s government attempts to crackdown on street protests by shutting down internet and mobile phone services, the US is preparing to reintroduce a bill that could be used to shut down the internet. The legislation, which would grant US President Barack Obama powers...
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By Tom Brown MIAMI | Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:28pm EST MIAMI (Reuters) – A judge in Florida on Monday became the second judge to declare President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law unconstitutional, in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, appointed to the...
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By Robert Gibbons NEW YORK | Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:32pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Brent oil prices jumped above $101 a barrel for the first time since 2008 on Monday on concern that unrest in Egypt could spread to Middle Eastern crude-producing countries or disrupt Suez Canal flows. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
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Terror in Pantanal, Nayarit Saturday, January 29, 2011 | Borderland Beat Reporter Gerardo Four more deaths in Mexico’s drug war were counted Friday morning after a clash between rival criminal gangs occurred between 6:30 and 8:00 AM this Friday in the town of Pantanal, located in the municipality of Xalisco, Nayarit. After the battle...
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ATLAS SHRUGS PAMELA GELLER The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt calls for war with the tiny Jewish state. What better way to unify the ummah than with tried-and-true, religiously mandated Islamic anti-semitism? For all of those quisling clowns desperately trying to scrub the Muslim Brotherhood, here is a good hard slap in the face. Further,...
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By Douglas Hamilton JERUSALEM | Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:54pm EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – If Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighborhood and President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame, Israeli pundits said on Monday. Political commentators expressed...
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Egypt: Mubarak and the Shah by Michael Ledeen There are some eery similarities between Egypt 2011 and Iran 1979, and some of them are unfortunately about American leadership. Read | 31 Comments What’s the Matter with Egypt? by Victor Davis Hanson The same thing that is the matter with most of the modern Middle...
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// // // Mubarak swears in new cabinet Demonstrations in Alexandria, Egypt Evacuation of Americans from Egypt begins today Mubarak swears in new cabinet Updated 43 min. ago Flights carrying American citizens out of Egypt are expected to begin today. On Sunday, the State Department recommended that Americans leave the country as protests and...
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By George Friedman Related Special Topic Page The Egypt Unrest: Full Coverage It is not at all clear what will happen in the Egyptian revolution. It is not a surprise that this is happening. Hosni Mubarak has been president for more than a quarter of a century, ever since the assassination of Anwar Sadat....
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