For Palestine
by Carlos Latuff
Silver Lining
Food for thought
Events in the Arab world
General articles
A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs
Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara
Arming Despots: Obama and the Mideast Arms Trade
Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
Is the Arab Spring spreading to US congressional staffs?
It’s Not About the West, Mr. Friedman: Distorting the Essence of the Great Arab Revolutions of 2011
No thank you, the Arabs have their own minds
NY Times: US to build shadow internet and cell phone in the region
Revolution Overloads Faulty US Grid
Roots of the Arab Revolts; Premature Celebrations
Sovereignty in the Middle East
The Crisis for US Policy in North Africa: Imperial Anxieties
The sweet smell of counter-revolution
Two-faced Arab League losing ground
Algeria (click for news)
Bahrain (click for news)
Articles
A Jittery GCC: Bahrain and the “Freedom Contagion”
Bahrain: A Legacy of Broken Promises
Bahrain: America’s big paradox
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s Rulers Goose-Step to the Brink of the Abyss
Bahrain: Days of Rage, Decades of Oppression
Bahrain’s hospitals are used as bait
Bahrain: Oppression, Murder and Myths of Reform
Bahrain- Phone Rings: Hello, You Are Expelled!
Bahrain: When Revolution Becomes the Only Choice
Heralding a New History: The Revolt in Bahrain
Journalist Tortured in Bahrain: Nazeeha Saeed’s Ordeal
The shocking thing is that Bahrain abuse is systematic
Time to Disband the Bahrain-Based U.S. Fifth Fleet
Egypt (click for news)
Articles
After Mubarak, the Military Fist
Amazing Egyptian child chanting slogans for protesters-video
Anatomy of Egypt’s Revolution: How Democracy Could be Hijacked
Arab Spring Wary of Economic Lifelines
A Very Fine Thing: The Egyptian Revolution
Conditions and Consequences: Anatomy of Egypt’s Revolution
Conditions and Consequences: Anatomy of Egypt’s Revolution (Part Two)
Corruption investigations begin in post-Mubarak Egypt
Critical Connections: Egypt, the US and the “Israel” Lobby
Egypt and the Palestinian question-Omar Suleiman’s role
Egypt: Corruption Ran in the Family
Egypt: In every street in my country, the voice of freedom calls…: video (song)
Egypt: Mubarak’s police run over protesters-video
Egypt: Wednesday night intense battle-regime crimes: video
Egypt-‘Israel’ “peace treaty” brought more war than peace
Egypt military trying political prisoners: video
Egypt’s relationship with “Israel” is changing
Egypt’s revolution and the US: Mubarak’s fatal mistake
Egypt’s revolution through a million eyes
Egyptian People Power versus the Oligarchy
Egyptian protester: powerful words- video
Egyptian regime’s crimes revealed-videos: protesters shot, run over, and thugs let loose
ElBaradei??? Soros’s Man in Cairo
Frank Wisner in Cairo: The Empire’s Bagman
From Counter-Attack to Departure Day: Mubarak’s Last Gasps
Hidden Hands Stoke Sectarian Strife
How Palestine’s uprising inspired Egypt’s
Hurriya is Arabic for Freedom: Just Listen to Egypt Roar
Meet Asmaa Mahfouz and the vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution-video
Model of the Status Quo? Egypt, the American Way
Mubarak regime source of sectarian unrest
Muslim-Christian unity characterizes Egypt’s uprising
Omar Suleiman and the Rendition to Torture
Palestine and the Egyptian revolution: a view from Gaza
Plunderers of Egypt’s Wealth.. Documented – Part 2 of 3
Plunderers of Egypt’s Wealth – Documented – Part 3 of 3
Revolutionary Egyptian youth refuse Clinton meeting
Seeking Justice for Those Killed by Egyptian Police: Burying the Truth at Tahrir Square
Spontaneity and a “Collective Moral Earthquake”: Egypt’s Great Awakening
Suleiman: The CIA’s man in Cairo
The Egyptian Revolution and Democracy
The Egyptian Uprising: Facts and Fiction
The Making of Egypt’s Revolution
The revolution continues after Mubarak’s fall
The Sting of the Scorpion…Egypt’s Darkest Corner was the forerunner to Guantanamo
This Isn’t All About Mubarak: Egypt’s Workers Revolt
Twelve Moments That Shook the World: When Egypt’s Revolution Was at the Crossroads
US Zionism and Egypt’s Pro-Democracy Movement
We are all part of Egypt’s revolution
When Citizens Are Left to Fend for Themselves: Egypt’s Dignity Revolution
Iraq (click for news)
Articles
Iraqi riot police open fire toward the protesters and kill 2 and injures many in Mosul-video
Shoe thrower targets Iraq’s PM: video
Jordan (click for news)
Kuwait (click for news)
Lebanon
Thousands of Lebanese Demand Fall of Confessional System
Libya (click for news)
Articles
Brits Bollix Benghazi Caper: ‘Diplomacy’ or deception in the desert?
Fallujah, Iraq 2004 – Misrata, Libya 2011
Inside Gaddafi’s bunker- video
Liberated Libya Rejects US Intervention- video
Libya’s tragedy, Gaddafi’s farce
Message to America and Europe: Spare us the crocodile tears over Libya
Targeting Infrastructure: War Crimes and the Bombing of Libya
The Bang That Ends Qaddafi’s Revolution? The Libyan Labyrinth
The cluster bombing of Misrata: The case against the USA
Those Libyan Atrocities: Do They Really Stand Up?
UK’s role in rehabilitating Qaddafis and the London School of Economics
Videos about protests in Libya
What next for the ‘Mad Dog’ of Libya?
Who Else is Helping the Libyan Leader? Algeria?
Mauritania (click for news)
Morocco (click for news)
Oman (click for news)
Palestine (click for news)
Articles
Interview with Hassan Hijazi who returned to Jaffa (Yafa) from Syria
“Israel’s” Changing Demographics
Israelis Prepare to Emigrate, Palestinians to Return
Nakba: “I’m sick of 63 years of Israeli occupation”: video
Returning to Safed in shackles
Right of Return and Right to Break the Fence
Standing for Justice: Why I’m Going to Gaza
The On-Going Nakba of Palestine … 63 Years Later: video
They Call it “Independence” … We Call it Nakba
To the Edge of Their Lands: Nakba Sunday at Maroun al Ras
News sorted by date (old to new)
May 15: Return marches, martyrs and many wounded
May 15: 15 martyrs on Right to Return Day, “return is closer than ever”
Saudi Arabia (click for news)
Articles
Saudi Arabia scrambles to limit region’s upheaval
Saudi Arabia (spotlight on protests) and Western Hypocrisy
Sudan (click for news)
Syria (click for news)
Media forgery: Videos claimed to be in Syria turned out to be false- Reuters & European media
Syria: Mass grave containing the bodies of 12 security forces found & lies circled about Hezbollah
Tunisia (click for news)
A Burning Desire for Freedom: Tonight We Are All Tunisians
Dictatorship, Neo-Liberalism and IMF’s Diktats: The Tunisian People’s Uprising
Political prisoners in Tunisia’s new era-video
Revolution is an export Tunisia can be proud of
The Fall of the West’s Little Dictator
Tunisia: The massacre behind the revolution
Tunisians must dismantle the monster Ben Ali built
UAE (click for news)
Yemen (click for news)
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Silver Lining 
The Arab Revolt of 2011 keeps getting stronger. Protests continue in such unlikely places like Bahrain. Some ME rulers do some cosmetic changes just to please Washington, and the oil companies.
The Egyptian virus of 2011, however, the façade of democracy erected by Bahrain rulers and their ilk keep crumbling. The beneficiaries of oil piracy have been the royal family, and a crony clique. Bahrain monarch imported 50,000 foreign workers to reconfigure the demographic landscape.
This Bahranization policy was a smokescreen to pit the (local) labor against the (foreign) labor. Locals feel the pain. Young people are at the forefront of the revolts because they have the most to lose from the subsidies, and from the policies that mortgage their futures.
These are also turmoil against the overpaid agents (bankers) of multi-national corporations. When will the Arab people rule themselves, and not be ruled by one-party dictators and monarchs who do the bidding of the bond markets and foreign capitals?
The Western politicians continue to praise their “democratic” friends in the Middle East. To top the obscenity, Obama conferred with the Saudis on the democratic transition in Egypt, which is like asking a vegetarian Brahmin to cook beef.
When will the economies of the Arab region be able to sustain their populations rather than fatten the financial houses in the Atlantic world, and offer massive trust funds for the dictators and the monarchs?
Cursed with oil, the Arab world has seen little economic diversification and almost no attempt to use the oil wealth to engender balanced social development for the people.
Instead, the oil money is given in the hands of foreign banks , to provide credit for overheated consumers in the United States and to provide banks with vast funds that are recycled at high interest rates to poor third world nations.
The oil money also has also gone toward the real estate boom in the Gulf, and the gamble tables and escort services of Monaco (the Las Vegas of Europe, which has another decrepit monarch, Albert II, at its head). WE do a great injustice to Islams social justice and equity
Thanks kodimirpal that was quite a comprehensive summary of the situation of the Arab world especially the Gulf. Hopefully, the tides are turning and what is seen now as the curse of the oil becomes truly a helping hand in all of these countries.
Can Egypt Get Back the Stolen Money?
The Western banking system itself is not clean, it is meant for making profits from the deposits of political thieves like Mubarak , Suharto, Marcos and others.
It is deliberately made impossible to investigate massive transfer of funds to Swiss Number Accounts by the rotten politician. The banks themselves are dishonest and corrupt and there is so much of social injustice and the dishonest, greedy and wealthy control the wealth of the world and its monetary system
The Swiss banks use the so called confidentiality clause.
This money illegally earned is kept by the western banks, is misused to finance illegal wars, insurgents and secret operations, to destabilise third world democracies and to help drug trade by officials, politicians and the worlds filthy rich .
The most interesting thing about this is that the stolen money comes back to poor developing countries in the form of World Bank and IMF loans and some poor nations pay more by way of interest on the loan than the Principal.
The Security Council can do something about this by bringing an international law saying that once a person holds political power or senior admin job, his numbered Swiss bank accounts are to be fully revealed and become transparent. But the UNO is an exclusive American club and the US will not co-operate, may even veto such a resolution because this will hamper the billions of dollars that the West effectively uses to grind its private axe.
Unless the UNO passes a security council resolution making it illegal to allow numbered accounts by the political leaders of any nation and the resolution is strictly implemented. India is a tiny little power in this dirty game. Only the US can do something, they will not do because of the huge American Zionist interest in the world banking system. The US political leadership survives by it.
I agree with you, even if the Egyptian people do get something it would not come close to the real amounts. The banks will keep the money for other purposes.
Thanks for the insightful information.