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Egypt’s Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy
Archaeology

Egypt’s Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt’s new billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids opened on Saturday. It has 100,000 artifacts, including a massive statue of […]

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Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed

Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed

11/02/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy

Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy

11/02/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

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Egypt
"Egypt my Beautiful Country - Helwa Ya Baladi": a slide show of simpler times set to Dalida's Hit Song

“Egypt my Beautiful Country – Helwa Ya Baladi”: a slide show of simpler times set to Dalida’s Hit Song

Egypt is in for a hard week. To take the edge off let’s enjoy Mina Nabil Ramzy’s slide show of nostalgia for Egypt in simpler […]

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Egypt
How Egypt’s Michelle Bachmann became President and Plunged the Country into Chaos (Cole at Truthdig)

How Egypt’s Michelle Bachmann became President and Plunged the Country into Chaos (Cole at Truthdig)

My column is out at Truthdig, “How Egypt’s Michelle Bachmann became President and Plunged the country into Chaos”. Excerpt: “Despite Egypt’s sagging economy, Morsi did […]

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Biggest Demonstrations in Egyptian History:  Millions Demand President Morsi Step Down

Biggest Demonstrations in Egyptian History: Millions Demand President Morsi Step Down

The Egyptian military estimated that “millions” of Egyptian demonstrated on Sunday to demand early presidential elections, only one year into the four-year term of President […]

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Government surveillance
Furious European Parliament Members Warn US Spying could Derail Free Trade Agreement

Furious European Parliament Members Warn US Spying could Derail Free Trade Agreement

European Union officials are furious about revelations that the US is spying on them and on Continental Europeans as vigorously as it spies on China. […]

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UAE
Dubai's Underwater Hotel

Dubai’s Underwater Hotel

Construction of the Water Discus underwater hotel of Dubai may be begun soon, and it will be finished in five years, according to Colin Simpson […]

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Government surveillance
How Obama has made Whistleblowers the Flying Dutchmen of the 21st Century (van Buren)

How Obama has made Whistleblowers the Flying Dutchmen of the 21st Century (van Buren)

Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch: As a State Department whistleblower, I think a lot about Edward Snowden. I can’t help myself. My friendships with […]

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Arab Spring
‘The 19th Day of the Egyptian Revolution’: What the Egyptian Press is Saying about Today’s Mass Protest

‘The 19th Day of the Egyptian Revolution’: What the Egyptian Press is Saying about Today’s Mass Protest

Via the USG Open Source Center, report on Egypt press for June 30, 2013 (arrangement and headings by JC), regarding the massive demonstrations throughout the […]

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Energy
GE's 'Brilliant' Wind Turbines offer Cheaper Energy than Coal, Gas, & have Battery Storage

GE’s ‘Brilliant’ Wind Turbines offer Cheaper Energy than Coal, Gas, & have Battery Storage

GE’s Brilliant wind turbines generate electricity more cheaply than coal or gas according to Clean Technica , and have battery storage for when the wind […]

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Government surveillance
US bugged EU offices, Collects 1/2 Billion German Internet & Phone Connections Monthly

US bugged EU offices, Collects 1/2 Billion German Internet & Phone Connections Monthly

Der Spiegel has two explosive stories on NSA spying from Edward Snowden’s leaked documents. The first is that the US has bugged the telephones and […]

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