Category: Politics

Do you want help an Iraqi ? Help my friend …

Posted on by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)

As an Iraqi activist I receive many emails from people over the world how want to help Iraqi people to have a better future ,especially young Iraqi youth , we usually try to get help for the sick and most …

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What’s really going on in Iraq?

Posted on by Abdulla Hawez (Kurdistan)

The recent tension in Baghdad between Nouri  Al-Maliki’s Shiite Iraqi prime minister with both Iraqi president’s deputy Tariq Al-Hashimi, and his deputy for service affairs, Salih Mutlaq, which both are Sunnis is highly connected with the regional tension between Iran …

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Occupy Bardo!

Posted on by Bedlam Beggar (Tunisia)

Tunisians are keeping an eye on the representatives they elected on October 23. Occupy Bardo is a open sit-in held in front of the National Constituent Assembly premises, seat of the former Camber of Deputies to demand transparency of the …

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Gandhi, King and Mandela

Posted on by Nissim Dahan

Some of the strongmen of the Middle East are no longer in the picture, but who, and what, will come to replace them? Yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Egypt is a case in point. Certainly, there was a sense of hope …

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Well! It’ unfair to blame Iran on its nuclear program, but WHY?

Posted on by Abdulla Hawez (Kurdistan)

The nuclear power has been innovated by the father of nuclear physics Ernest Rutherford in 1919. And the first nuclear power plant has been made in Obninsk  in 1954 which generate electricity for a power grid, and produced around 5 megawatts of electric power. Also …

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1. From Tweed Heads to Egypt

Posted on by Trevor Avedissian

Its amazing how random a chance meeting in Tweed Heads (Northern NSW east coast of Australia) can end you up in a 5 star hotel in Egypt on the banks of the Nile. This’ll be my first departure from Australia …

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Yes to Peace for Egypt

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

Yes to Peace for Egypt Before it is for Israel When Ismail Sidqi pasha refused that Egypt would get-in the war of 1948, he wasn’t a traitor to Egypt or loving Israel. All about it is that Ismail Sidqi was …

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So It’s Freedom You Want?

Posted on by Nissim Dahan

People the world over cry out for “freedom,” but how often do we sit down and think about what it really means to be free? Over the years, different people the world over embraced different interpretations of “freedom.” Janice Joplin …

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Why don’t we also be peaceful with Israel?

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

In the seventies and eighties of last century, militant Islamist opposition appeared, which was the strongest of the opposition movements, which was able to challenge the July militarist regime… This opposition reached its peak on October, 1981, when it assassinated …

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Statement by Maikel Nabil – Declaration of hunger strike

Posted on by Maikel Nabil Sanad (Egypt)

“The oppressed is more unjust to himself than his oppressor when he allows oppression to be committed against him.” (Martin Luther King) Dear Director of El-Marg Public Prison, Due to the severe injustice committed against me by the Military Justice …

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