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Marc Lynch:
Obama's handling Egypt pretty well — After President Obama spoke last night about the situation in Egypt, my Twitter feed and inbox filled up with angry denunciations, with lots of people complaining bitterly that he had endorsed Mubarak's grim struggle to hold on to power …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egyptians Defiant as Mubarak Appoints a No. 2 — CAIRO — Tens of thousands of protesters once again defied President Hosni Mubarak's curfews and threats of a harsh crackdown, taking to the streets for a fifth day as the Egyptian leader struggled to hold on to the power that he has maintained in nearly 30 years of authoritarian rule.
Al Jazeera Blogs:
Live blog 29/1 - Egypt protests — on January 29th, 2011. — Visit our special Anger in Egypt coverage page. — Watch Al Jazeera English broadcasting live from Cairo, Suez and Alexandria. — Read up on a timeline of the past four days of unprecedented protests.
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Firedoglake, The Daily Dish, LewRockwell.com Blog, Hullabaloo, Open Left, Global Voices in English, CNET News and GigaOM
Latme / Babylon & Beyond:
EGYPT: Opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei accuses U.S. of dropping the ball — Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei called the U.S. position on the Egyptian crisis a disappointment and condemned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's early Satruday morning speech as “almost an insult to the intelligence of the Egyptian people.”
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CNN:
Egypt protests draw mixed reaction in region — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Saudi Arabia slammed protesters in Egypt on Saturday as “infiltrators” who seek to destabilize their country, while a a top Palestinian official affirmed “solidarity” with Egypt.
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Aljazeera, Weasel Zippers, BBC and Weekly Standard
Amb / Fox News:
AMB. JOHN BOLTON: Is Democracy Coming to Egypt at Last? — As seen on Fox News Channel's “Happening Now with Jon Scott and Jenna Lee” on January 28. — FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON: I think what's clearly happened today [in Egypt] is that the Muslim Brotherhood …
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Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Egyptian troops let protests proceed as Mubarak names vice president — CAIRO - Tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators swarmed central Cairo on Saturday in the largest demonstration yet against the rule of the country's longtime autocratic leader, President Hosni Mubarak.
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Washington Post:
The U.S. needs to break with Mubarak now — ON FRIDAY, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians did something that the Obama administration, and many others in Washington, believed they would never do: They rose up against their government, demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak's autocracy.
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CNN:
JOHN KING, USA — Unrest in Egypt — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — JOHN KING, HOST: Thanks Wolf and good evening everyone. Tonight Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak tries to quiet a political crisis, but his defiant tone leaves …
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BBC:
LIVE: Egypt unrest day five
LIVE: Egypt unrest day five
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The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt …
Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt …
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Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter / Human Events:
America Must Stand With Her Ally Egypt
America Must Stand With Her Ally Egypt
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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Al Jazeera Covers Protests Despite Hurdles
Al Jazeera Covers Protests Despite Hurdles
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Kerry: Premature to threaten cutting Egypt's $1.3B aid
Kerry: Premature to threaten cutting Egypt's $1.3B aid
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Weasel Zippers and The Hill
President Barack Obama / Time:
Transcript: President Obama's Remarks on Egypt
Transcript: President Obama's Remarks on Egypt
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Caroline B. Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Column One: The pragmatic fantasy
Column One: The pragmatic fantasy
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama on the Situation in Egypt: “All Governments Must …
President Obama on the Situation in Egypt: “All Governments Must …
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Outside the Beltway, New York Times and Blue Virginia
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
‘Whose Bright Idea Was It to Send Joe Biden Out to Talk About Egypt?’
‘Whose Bright Idea Was It to Send Joe Biden Out to Talk About Egypt?’
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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Don Surber
Caroline Glick:
The pragmatic fantasy — Today the Egyptian regime faces …
The pragmatic fantasy — Today the Egyptian regime faces …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Cautions Embattled Ally Against Violence
Obama Cautions Embattled Ally Against Violence
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The Politico:
Right takes refuge in Constitution — The federal lawsuits against last year's health care overhaul were greeted with eye-rolling and snickers from many conventional legal scholars. — Nobody's laughing now. — A federal judge in Virginia ruled late last year that a key underpinning …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Karl Marx, Real Business Cycle Theorist — Kudos to Benjamin Kunkel for trying to present an accessible Marxist account of the current financial crisis. I was struck reading the piece, though, by how similar the Kunkel/Harvery/Marx account of the crisis is to linguistically and ideologically quite different accounts from the right.
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Benjamin Kunkel / London Review of Books:
Benjamin Kunkel: Marx's Return
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama ‘willing’ to golf with Boehner — President Obama is willing to play golf with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to help improve their relationship, a top White House adviser said Saturday. — Outgoing White House senior adviser David Axelrod said that the chances are “good” …
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Inquiry Is Missing Bottom Line — There was something almost comical about the way the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its report on Thursday morning. — About a week ago, reporters were told they would get a sneak preview of the report the morning of its release. The location was undisclosed.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Who Wants To Be Paul Ryan's Press Secretary? — News stories about Paul Ryan have increasingly come to resemble an open competition for the job of Paul Ryan's press secretary. The latest audition, from ABC News, actually compares him to Kevin Kline's character in “Dave,” …
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Paul Krugman:
The Wal-Mart Decade — I've been putting some material together for textbook revision, and found myself looking at European versus US productivity performance over the past couple of decades. I sort of knew the facts here, but this recent paper by Bart van Ark (pdf) seemed …
Mark Perry / Foreign Policy:
Not worth the paper they're printed on — This week's release of the Palestine Papers by Al Jazeera television might well be a classic example of “burying the lede.” While the revelations sparked revulsion among Palestinians about how much their leadership conceded in talks with Israel …
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Salon, Babylon & Beyond, The Huffington Post, Suburban Guerrilla and Mondoweiss