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Jamal Halaby / Associated Press:
Jordan's opposition: Arabs will topple tyrants — AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States. — Hammam Saeed's comments …
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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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Laura Rozen / The Politico:
Ex-officials urge Obama to suspend aid to Egypt — A bipartisan group of former U.S. officials and foreign policy scholars is urging the Obama administration to suspend all economic and military aid to Egypt until the government agrees to carry out early elections and to suspend Egypt's draconian state …
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Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Egypt riots are an intelligence chief's nightmare — Western intelligence in general and Israeli intelligence in particular did not foresee the scope of change in Egypt, which may require a reorganization of the IDF. — The events of the last few days in Egypt - apparently …
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Barry Rubin / GLORIA Center:
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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 …
Leila Fadel / Washington Post:
More Egyptian protesters demand that White House condemn Mubarak — CAIRO - In a dusty alleyway in downtown Cairo, Gamal Mohammed Manshawi held out a dirty plastic bag Saturday afternoon. Inside were smashed gas canisters and the casings of rubber bullets that he said Egyptian police had fired at anti-government demonstrators.
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Calling for Restraint, Pentagon Faces Test of Influence With Ally
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Reuters:
FACTBOX - Omar Suleiman, new Egyptian vice-president
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Los Angeles Times, AOL News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Other McCain and New York Times
Latme / Babylon & Beyond:
EGYPT: Opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei accuses U.S. of dropping the ball
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Associated Press:
Egypt's Mubarak names vice president for 1st time
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CNN:
Egypt protests draw mixed reaction in region
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The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt …
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Blogcritics, The Gateway Pundit and FrumForum
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Egyptians Defiant as Military Does Little to Quash Protests
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Hrag Vartanian / Hyperallergic:
Breaking: Images of Egyptian Museum Damage [UPDATE 28] Al-Jazeera: NDP Fires Still Threaten Museum, AP: King Tut Treasures Safe … UPDATE 24: Sat. Jan 29 12:43pm EST: Al-Jazeera has broadcast video of the damage at the National Museum, aka Egyptian Museum.
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J.J. Gould / The Atlantic Online:
Liveblogging Egypt: Day 2, Cont'd — Tracking the ongoing demonstrations and government response — 7:00 p.m. EST / 2:00 a.m. Cairo Egypt's ambassador to the U.S. may be onto something. In an interview on CNN's The Situation Room: “There is a sense of crisis in the country.”
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Time, This Just In, Telegraph and National Review
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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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Latest Updates on Protests in Egypt
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Gawker, Guardian, Mondoweiss, The Daily Dish and JustOneMinute
hrw.org:
Live Updates From Egypt
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Guardian, The Daily Dish, New York Times and Prairie Weather
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Al Jazeera Covers Protests Despite Hurdles
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Taylor Marsh, Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla, more at Mediagazer »
The White House:
Weekly Address: “America Will Win the Future by Out-Innovating, Out-Educating, and Out-Building Our Competitors” — WASHINGTON - In this week's address, President Obama called Orion Energy Systems in Manitowoc, Wisconsin an example of how America can win the future by being the best place on Earth to do business.
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The Future of Capitalism, The Gateway Pundit and Politics Daily
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Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog:
Weekly Address: Out-Innovating, Out-Educating & Out-Building Our Competitors
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Verum Serum and CNN
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Virginia House Revives Doctrine of ‘Interposition’ Last Used To Defend Jim Crow — Segregationist Virginia Senator Harry Byrd Sr. — In response to the landmark Affordable Care Act, numerous right-wing state lawmakers have introduced unconstitutional bills attempting to nullify this federal law.
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The Political Carnival, Joshua Holland's Blog and Colorlines
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE ANTI-SCIENCE PARTY.... This segment, by way of Daily Kos' Jed Lewison, helps reinforce much of what's wrong with the state of critical thinking in the Republican Party. — “Real Time” host Bill Maher asked Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) a fairly straightforward question: “Do you believe in evolution?”
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
WHPS: Who Cares? — Howard Fineman celebrates Jay Carney's elevation to the post of White House Press Secretary because it shows Barack Obama's understanding of the need to surround himself with savvy insiders: … This seems to me to be a reference to a change that simply never happened …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama ‘willing’ to golf with Boehner
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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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Grasping Reality …
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