From the Guardian: Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against left-wing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a nonprofit that monitors political violence around the world.In the past 10 months, US law enforcement agencies have used teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and beatings at a
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A ‘war on terror’ is not what we need to defeat the far-right
Via Jacobin: Make no mistake. The purpose of all of this is not merely to go after the participants in last week’s incident at the Capitol, but to empower the government’s repressive bureaucracies to clamp down on all types of civil unrest and protest.
Read on »Twitter deletes Trump’s account
Good riddance: Twitter announced Friday it was pulling the plug permanently on @realDonaldTrump, citing concern that Trump would use it for “further incitement of violence.” تبقى ضربة معلم والله لو جاك يقفل حساب ترمب بعد الانتخابات. تقريبا ممكن تيجي له سكتة قلبية فيها دي — حسام الحملاوي (@3arabawy) November 5, 2020 Read Twitter’s official statement
Read on »How the West supports Egypt’s military dictatorship
While human rights groups condemn Sisi’s regime, he receives European arms deals, American aid, and even France’s greatest honor, writes Maged Mandour.
Read on »Oh, well
“if he’s not ready to clean his house up, he shouldn’t have a house. It should catch on fire and burn down”
Arming Arab dictators
Militarized policing
#Jan25 The Uprising
A radio interview I gave, on 26 January 2011, to Lilian Boctor of FSRN, aired on 27 January 2011.
Read on »The Orlando shooting
The Arab regimes have all condemned the Orlando gay bar shooting in the US, while continuing to crack down, imprison, torture and kill gays back in their own countries.
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