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Soup: Libya, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen News Roundup: March 4.

pantslessprogressive:

Happy Friday! Here is a news roundup for Libya, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and other countries for Friday, March 4.

[Previously: Mar. 2]

Libya - The People:

Via Soup


newsflick:

The cyber activist group/internet hacker group - Anonymous - released press statement that continues to circulate widely on the internet. The group issued a statement of solidarity with the Libyan people.




NO SHIA. NO SUNNI. JUST BAHRAINI.

Wal3at 3al a5er

(Source: insaniyat)




the revolution will now truly begin (Inshallha)



newsweek:

In lands that have been plundered and tyrannized, the Arab Revolution of 2011 has been smoldering for decades. What finally turned resignation into rebellion.

(Photo: Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum for Newsweek)



theeconomist:

Tahrir Square, Cairo. While protests continue, our correspondent in the city suggests that something close to normalcy is beginning to return.  



jackrubytuesday:

Protesters wake up near a tank in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 6.



nationalpost:

They’re ‘our’ SOBs: U.S. has history of backing despots — when they’re useful

No one knows for sure if President Franklin D. Roosevelt really said, of the U.S.’s support for the corrupt Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.”

Most likely he didn’t. It hardly matters. The fact the quote has, for 72 years, taken on a life of its own — it has been held up as the defining, cold-hearted mentality behind U.S. foreign policy — does.

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A collection of Al Jazeera’s most powerful images from today’s protests against Mubarak


Via SHINY FUCKING CURLS




“Their bed for yet another night: the sidewalk” from @TravellerW, as protesters in Tahrir Square bed down for the night. [x]

Allha ya7mehom.


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