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Salem-News.com (Oct-11-2011 13:00)

Cairo Clashes: The Chronicles of Egypt Copts

“With Egypt military council siding with the Islamist front while dragging its feet on getting the police forces back on the street and properly functioning again, the Christian minority (10% of Egyptian population) remains in limbo.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Salem-News.com Cairo remains tense after clashes left at least 24 people dead and over 270 injured in the worst violence in the Egyptian capital since the country’s revolution in February.

An overnight curfew was lifted on Monday but scores of people have been arrested, and a heavy security presence remained on the streets near Tahrir Square (the iconic landmark that witnessed the glorious days of the Egyptian revolution)

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Salem-News.com (Oct-09-2011 23:16)

Deadly Attack Against Christian Demonstrators in Cairo-Egypt

We urge and call upon the international community to call for an immediate investigation into the occurrences of 9 October 2011.

(LONDON Presswire) - Scene in Cairo 0 Oct 2011 Over the past thirty years more than four hundred innocent Christians have been killed in cold blood with repeated government failures to prosecute the perpetrators and apply the rule of law.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-08-2011 14:34)

Nobel Peace Prize Discredited

The issue is the historical sense of the committee, or the lack of it for that matter.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni women’s rights activist Tawakul Karman have been named winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the names at a ceremony in the capital, Oslo, on Friday, saying the three were honoured for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-05-2011 23:03)

In Post- Mubarak Egypt, Waterboarding is Baby Stuff

“There was much more to this unique Tahrir square phenomenon than just bread and butter, … there were popular demands to restore a lost dignity.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The Egyptian Revolution and the epic story of Tahrir square There are a few academic definitions of “Revolution”… but they all come down to one sentence “Dramatic change in a relatively short period of time”.

It could take some time to change the political system of a country; it could take some time to draft a new constitution, elect a new parliament, even a new president … but it will definitely take so many years to get rid of the culture of fear when you have been living for so long in a police state.

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Salem-News.com (Oct-02-2011 14:02)

Chomsky on `Occupy Wall Street` and Israel Imminent Collapse

In an interview with RT’s Marina Portnaya, prominent scholar Professor Noam Chomsky gives his take on some of the world’s political hot topics.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Noam Chomsky Chomsky vividly shares his reflections on the wall street protests and warns of an impending serious poverty and real unemployment similar to the great depression.

He talks about the 2012 American presidential campaign spending and how positions in both the white house and the congress are being bought, not earned and he refers to the killing of Osama Bin Laden and how this marks a shift of American policy from Bush’s abducting and torturing whoever the CIA thought posed a threat to the U.S to Obama’s “just kill `em when you spot `em” approach regardless of the legalities overlooked in the process.

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Salem-News.com (Sep-30-2011 16:25)

Sean Penn takes part in Egypt`s Tahrir demo

“Two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn makes surprise appearance at today’s Tahrir Square protest”.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Sean Penn & Egyptian actor, Khalid el-Nabawy joining the protests in Tahrir square US film star and Oscar winner Sean Penn has joined today’s demonstration in Tahrir Square, staged to protest recent unpopular moves by Egypt’s ruling military council.

“The world is inspired by the call for freedom by the courageous revolution of Egypt,” Penn, waving an Egyptian flag, told Ahram Online from the square. “There are still struggles forward, there are constitutional issues, there [needs to be] a transition of power from the military to the people.”

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Salem-News.com (Sep-23-2011 15:25)

Recognition of Israel Necessitates Recognizing Palestine First

Recognizing a state requires the existence of an equal state, politically and legally on the same level, to make the recognition.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Mahmoud Abbas submitting the application of the state of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations Author’s note: Recognizing Israel has been an Israeli precondition for sitting around one table with the Palestinians to start the so-called peace talks.

In almost all the screwed up bilateral negotiations over the past two decades, the Israeli side would always issue statements that justify and stick the failure of negotiations on the other side’s unwillingness to recognize the state of Israel.

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Salem-News.com (Sep-12-2011 14:06)

9/11: Lingering Doubts

“The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitless.” -- Excerpt from the preface to the 9/11 Commission Report

(TEHRAN Tehran Times) - 911 Islamophobia The attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 provided a dramatic pretext for American Islamophobes to pour out their venom on Islam and Prophet Muhammad (S). Right-wing evangelist Jerry Falwell declared that our Prophet (S) was “a terrorist.”

Franklin Graham, the son of Reverend Billy Graham, called our religion, Islam, “wicked, violent and not of the same God.”

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Salem-News.com (Sep-10-2011 22:57)

The Day The Bush War on Terror Began

One glaring reason why the Bush-Cheney war machine could shape public opinion with such impunity in 2001 is that the main stream media had abandoned its journalistic responsibility to talk truth to power.

(CHICAGO) - Salem-News.com President George Bush’s War on Terror began ten years ago, September 11, 2001.

Murderous crime scenes in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, became spiritual staging grounds for an international war against what Time’s Tony Karon describes as “a tiny network of transnational extremists, founded on the remnants of the Arab volunteers who’d fought in the U.S.-backed Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union.”

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Salem-News.com (Sep-10-2011 22:19)

Dare I say its name?

The Anti-Defamation League condemns as "antisemitic" any writings about “Jewish Supremacism” and labels any person who utters the words as “anti-Semite”.

(LONDON) - Jewish lawyers The term White Supremacism defines the likes of KKK, of racists, neo-nazis etc, and projects a notion of wickedness and evil .

Wherever suitable, the term is used freely and without hesitation, generally by the Left, including the anti-Zionist Jewish Left. No one thinks twice before accurately using the term to portray anyone who claims that so called "White" people are superior to "people of colour".

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