One of Egypt’s leading actors, Khaled Abol Naga, is currently facing a smearing campaign from the regime propagandists in state and private TV, after he called on President Sisi to leave and lashed out against his police state. One of the regime cronies, Lawyer Samir Sabry, has even filed a lawsuit asking the authorities to
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Sisi’s Dirty War: Propaganda, lies and no accountability
Lest we forget, the regime’s mouthpiece the daily Al-Ahram newspaper’s front page headline announced “Egypt to be declared terrorism-free in days,” on 23 September 2013, and estimated “may be a week”. But the insurgency in Sinai, which is already a decade long at least, starting with the 2004 Taba bombings, has only escalated during Sisi’s
Read on »The Egyptian army’s lousy 1960s-style propaganda
In response to Ansar Beit al-Maqdis’ latest propaganda video, the Egyptian Army’s Department of Morale Affairs issued its own propaganda video. And of course the mainstream “singers” have to chip in and aid the war on terror efforts, by even more lousy songs.
Read on »Sisi’s War on Terror
The regime propagandists have managed to uncover the biggest sponsor of terrorism in Egypt. It’s the independent unions! Keep it up, we are definitely winning this war on terror.
Read on »Ansar Beit al-Maqdas
I’ve just finished watching the gruesome new video released an hour ago by Ansar Beit al-Maqdas. The video on YouTube went viral, but it was taken down after being reported by users. However, it’s already there on DailyMotion and other sites. The links are disseminated widely via Twitter, Islamist forums and Facebook, etc. It’s ironic,
Read on »Why Sisi fears Gaza
Sisi fears Gaza, for the same reason Mubarak did. It’s not because of the tunnels. The tunnels have always existed. They flourished only because of the Egyptian-Israeli siege. The arms do not flow into Egypt from Gaza; it’s the other way around. Not a single concrete proof was ever given by Sisi’s propagandists or the
Read on »‘Elephant jockeys and cannibals’
The deputy head of the Egyptian Football Federation, Hassan Farid, regards Africans as “elephant jockeys and cannibals,” and Egypt’s most prominent sports news website doesn’t mind at all posting those racist statements without any sort of commentary. Such anti-African racism is rampant in Egyptian media. Today's @youm7 pic.twitter.com/iJfr1axKgh — حسام الحملاوي (@3arabawy) August 28, 2014
Read on »Brazilian police killed 11,000 people in five years
Leading NGOs in Brazil have called for the de-militarization of the country’s police forces after finding that officers killed more than 11,000 civilians in the five years to 2013, averaging about six killings a day.
Read on »US police killings highest in two decades
The number of felony suspects fatally shot by police last year — 461— was the most in two decades, according to a new FBI report.
Read on »Foreign journalists face increasing hostility in Egypt
Since the January 2011 revolution it has been harder for foreign reporters in work in Egypt, amid a paranoid atmosphere of xenophobia.
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