Gruesome Pictures: MASSACRE in Cairo

  In Pictures: Killings in Cairo   “Al Jazeera” – Nasr City, Egypt – Hundreds of people died as security forces launched a crackdown on supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. The assault, which began on Wednesday morning, led to bloody…

Ongoing CLASS WAR Continues in Egypt

Egypt is at war. More accurately, Egypt is experiencing yet another battle in its ongoing class war. The battle is so fierce because the primary combatants are the two most powerful social forces in Egypt, both factions of the capitalist class – the military as the state capitalist class and the Ikhwan (the Muslim Brotherhood) representing the competitive capitalist class. The military’s most recent explicit intervention into the political domain is assuredly not revolutionary. Nor is it cause for optimism. It is also not the ahistorical coup of liberal commentary. As a battle between two different kinds of property in Egypt, this is a further descent along the retrogressive trajectory set by the events of 25 January 2011. Egyptian politics are increasingly counter-revolutionary.

Massacre in Cairo

A deadly shooting at the site of a sit-in by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, demanding the reinstatement of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, has left dozens of people dead. The Egyptian health ministry said at…

Netanyahu Calls Obama’s Bluff

As tensions mount in the coming hours and days with the Israeli troops and tanks advancing toward Gaza menacingly, United States President Barack Obama begins to realize that he has a forked tongue. Gaza becomes…