hosni mubarak

Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life

Just announced on CBS news. No articles to source yet. Council of Armed Forces ordered to run the country.

Blimey, there's an economics forum! I thought I'd get your views on the following. Forbes list, #1 Carlos Slim Helu & family: http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_Carlos-Slim-Helu-family_WYDJ.html $53.5 billion How likely is it that Mubarak and family are actually richer...

In the midst of the Egyptian protests, pro-Mubarak forces appear to be targeting journalists. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03journalists.html?hp

Since we don't know what sort of government will take his place if (when?) he falls, it's kind of early to opine upon the subject, but let's engage in our usual rampant speculation anyway. Mubarak has served the U.S. as a useful idiot for 30 years. Once he's gone, we may find that we're unable...

I've always understood that the us and uk have implicitly supported Mubarak because they see him as a secular ally who is preferable to more overtly religious alternatives. How accurate is this? Why have we so happily embraced a repressive dictator - it's not like the gulf where we turn the...

Dawn comes, and with it, more protesters: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/201112974149942894.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110128/ap_on_re_us/us_us_egypt The USA will review our aid to Egypt based on their response to anti-govt. protestors. Meanwhile, Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians over the last 20 years of anti-occupation rioting during two Intifadas, confiscated...

Once again Biden is Biden. If a "president for life" like Mubarak who rigs every election and declares a permanent state of emergency isn't a dictator, who is?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110123/ap_on_re_us/tunisia_spreading_protests first Tunisia and now possibly Yemen. any chance that Saudi Arabia could follow? I support any and all attempts to bring down dictatorships, but only if there is a democratic and secular movement waiting in the...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052974.html Hamas is becoming more and more isolated.

Cairo anti-Mubarak rallies grow I wonder if the fact that there are thousands of riot police present for an event there are only hundreds of protestors is a good sign or not. *winky smiley*