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Visiting Nasser

The tents are flapping in the wind, you can see the two thin mattresses on the floor...

(GAZA) - It’s stormy, the wind is whipping through the trees, and scattered rain drops hit us in the face as we go down the muddy dirt road to Nasser's house. It’s a few hundred yards from the couple of houses around the cemetery, which form the village of Juhor al-Dik, to his small house near the border.

"Goodbye," shouted the driver who will pick us up from this remote area again, and with a look at the path we chose he added laughingly: "Insha Allah - God willing."

From Tunisia to Egypt to Wisconsin: The New Superpower of Global Public Opinion Will Defy All Efforts to Contain It

Countering the Incursions of the Axis of Kleptocracy.

(ALBERTA, Canada) - In responding to the worldwide protests aimed at stopping the US-led invasion of Iraq, The New York Times referred in 2003 to the existence of a new global superpower, that of world public opinion.

Back then, however, the full potential of this force of change remained unrealized and underdeveloped as demonstrated by the outcome of the events of mid-February.

Our Veto in the Security Council

I predict that future historians will mark this event as the moment when the sun began to set over the American Empire that emerged after World War II.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - When we vetoed the resolution on Israeli settlements in the UN Security Council, something that had been pretty clear before became crystal clear, at least to the rest of the world.

No more fig leaf, no more excuses, we now stand naked before the eyes of the rest of humanity. It is now commonly understood that at all times, under all imaginable circumstances, when little Israel cracks the whip, the American colossus obeys.

Israeli Media `Fears` the New Egypt

Israel's media presents Egyptian democracy as a threat, with one commentator lamenting the end of colonialism.

(JERUSALEM) - Over the past three weeks the Israeli media has been extremely interested in Egypt.

America Change Your Policies in the Mideast Or Lose It

Your choice. Change now or forever hold your tongue and bombs. Time is running out. by

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In a few days, or less, Libya will be free from the 42 year rule of the mentally unstable, psychotic, arrogant, divisive, condescending, megalomaniacal leader and self proclaimed “King of Africa.” –Muammar Al-Ghaddafi.

Unlike the deposed Tunisian and Egyptian leaders, Al Ghaddafi is despised by all other Arab tyrants, thus he’ll have no home outside of Libya unless some African nation has pity on this butcher of his people.

Benghazi; Libyans in Rebellion Mood in the Spirit of Omar Mukhtar

Candid observations on Libya and world revolution.

(UGANDA) - To some of us, the revolution that is spreading like a bushfire in North Africa and elsewhere in the Arab world including the Horn of Africa might have lost its appeal as a juicy news.

Yet,to people who always maintain a sense of history, the uprisings that sparked off in Tunisia and got transmitted to Egypt after rubbing some of its flame on Algeria before it crossed to the Arabian land in Yemen and Bahrain only to be back again to rock the establishment in Libya, remain an interesting phenomenon to be scrutinized.

Turning Against Mu`ammar Gaddafi of Libya

Nureddin Sabir recounts a painful journey of hope, disappointment, betrayal, blood and murder that has seen him turn from loyal supporter to vehement opponent of Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi and his regime in Libya.

(LONDON) - From Zintan in the west of Libya to Benghazi, Al-Bayda, Derna and Tobruk in the east, Libyans have been rising up against the rule of Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi since a “Day of Rage”.

We Libyans have come a long way since that fateful day in 1969, when Gaddafi and a group of 12 young officers seized power from King Idris Sanusi in a bloodless coup.

Traipsing Through The Media Muddied Waters of Revolution

In a fashion very reminiscent of how the Israeli Occupying Forces behaved during Cast Lead, ambulances and EMT's, Red Crescent and other human rights representatives were not allowed to enter areas where wounded were located.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - As revolution spreads in the middle east, so do casualties. As of this writing, confirmation of over 300 dead and hundreds more injured primarily in Tripoli and Benghazi.

It has also been confirmed that a small number of Libyan Security forces have defected in support of the people (Update: Unconfirmed claim that 150 defecting military killed by loyal troops).

March to Gaza - End the Egyptian Blockade of Gaza

The Plan: A march to the Rafah Crossing on MARCH 4th.

(GAZA) - To everyone who knows injustice, everyone who knows tyranny: we are all brothers and sisters with the people of Palestine. Let us act like it and let us march on Gaza on March 4th, 2011.

Let us amass in the greatest numbers possible, and let us march week after week if necessary, to make Rafah Crossing an open border.

US Vetoes Anti-Settlement Resolution

The US veto of the UN anti-settlement resolution is jarringly out of step with the demand for democracy from Middle East Arabs, including Palestinians. The old order is rapidly changing.

(CHICAGO) - The US has cast its first Obama UN veto, rejecting a Security Council resolution which would have condemned Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories “as an obstacle to peace”.

The BBC reported that “all 14 other members of the Security Council backed the resolution, which had been endorsed by the Palestine Liberation Organisation.”