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Archives for July 2013

Egypt
Egypt: One Soldier Dead, 3 Wounded, as Muslim Brotherhood Clashes with Army, Secularists in Provinces

Egypt: One Soldier Dead, 3 Wounded, as Muslim Brotherhood Clashes with Army, Secularists in Provinces

Juan Cole

The markets in Egypt reacted with sheer joy to the Egyptian Revolution 3.0, with the Egyptian stock market rising 7% and adding billions to the economy. Deposed president Muhammad Morsi was considered a poor steward of the economy, and tourism, electricity and services had deteriorated in the year he was president. But whether the transitional […]

Egypt
Egypt’s “Revocouption” and the future of Democracy on the Nile

Egypt’s “Revocouption” and the future of Democracy on the Nile

Juan Cole

The argument over whether what happened in Egypt on Wednesday, July 3, was a coup or a revolution is really an argument over the legitimacy of the actions taken. If it was a revolution, it was perhaps a manifestation of the popular will, and so would have a sort of Rousseauan legitimacy. If it was […]

Domestic Surveillance
How Unreasonable Searches of Private Documents Caused the American Revolution

How Unreasonable Searches of Private Documents Caused the American Revolution

Juan Cole

Just FYI, the Restore the Fourth movement in defense of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is holding protests all over the US today. On the Fourth of July, Americans should be celebrating the freedoms enshrined in the US constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. At one time, Americans minded when the government usurped their […]

Environment
No Atheists in Foxholes, no Climate Change Deniers at front Lines of Wildfires

No Atheists in Foxholes, no Climate Change Deniers at front Lines of Wildfires

Juan Cole

The western US is facing the prospect of worse and worse severe wildfires over the next century, according to a study summarized by The Scientific American: ” Their findings suggest that, in the decades to come, fire prevalence will decrease in tropical regions — but will increase, possibly severely, at more northerly latitudes, and particularly […]

Egypt
Fourth of July Comes a Day Early to Cairo after Fundamentalist President is Removed (video)

Fourth of July Comes a Day Early to Cairo after Fundamentalist President is Removed (video)

Juan Cole

RT has video:

Egypt
Egypt's Countdown to Meltdown: Morsi Refuses to Deal

Egypt’s Countdown to Meltdown: Morsi Refuses to Deal

Juan Cole

The Egyptian military’s ultimatum to the Muslim Brotherhood President Muhammad Morsi and his left, liberal & centrist political opposition to find a compromise by 4 pm Wednesday Egyptian time was disregarded by both sides, but most spectacularly by Morsi himself. The country was plunged into crisis when some 3 million demonstrators against Morsi came out […]

Government surveillance
Snowden Fall-out:  European Denial of Overflight to Bolivian President Angers South America

Snowden Fall-out: European Denial of Overflight to Bolivian President Angers South America

Juan Cole

As Bolivian President Evo Morales was returning from Moscow in a private jet after consultations on energy, his pilot was suddenly informed that France and Portugal had revoked overflight permissions, along with Spain and Italy. Spain ultimately relented, and Morales’s plane refueled there, before heading to Vienna to overnight. The Bolivian government is furious at […]

Government surveillance
Uncle Peeping Tom: US Surveils EU (Jamiol Cartoon)

Uncle Peeping Tom: US Surveils EU (Jamiol Cartoon)

Juan Cole

courtesy Paul Jamiol

Egypt
Feminist Revolutionary Narratives from Egypt and Syria: Hopes and Disappointments (cook)

Feminist Revolutionary Narratives from Egypt and Syria: Hopes and Disappointments (cook)

Juan Cole

miriam cooke writes for ISLAMiCommentary * *REVOLUTIONARY NARRATIVES: NAWAL EL SAADAWI AND SAMAER YAZBEK ISLAMiCommentary Editor’s Note: This paper was written by miriam cooke and presented at the international forum—“Mediterranean Women’s Rights in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings” — on June 21, 2013 in Fez, Morocco, and shared with ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN. Note, that […]

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