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Here's an update to the Egypt linkdump from two nights ago. Sorry to spam your f-lists/access lists with this, but this is kinda Really Fucking Important™.
Liveblogs:
ontd_political : #3 || #4 (the best place to start, as it has some of the best comments and commentary)
Al Jazeera: Saturday 1/29 || Sunday 1/30 || Monday 1/31
Mother Jones (scroll to the bottom [before the comments section] for the latest)
The Lede @ The New York Times
The Guardian (UK)
Other liveblogs, plus video feeds
Al Jazeera:
Egypt front page
BBC:
El Baradei tells crowd "change coming"
Anxious waiting game as standoff continues
Tension rises as jets buzz Tehrir Square in Cairo
Hillary Clinton urges "orderly transition"
Profile: Mohammed El Baradei
Can Mubarak survive the revolt?
Tough questions if revolution succeeds
Foreign Policy:
Pharaoh's End: A roundtable
The Worst of Both Worlds
Five questions about Egypt
President Obama, here is your "game changer"
Unmasking Mubarak's "chaos"
Democracy is not all that different....
Obama's handling Egypt pretty well (h/t
mcollinknight , and an article I agree with 100%)
Guardian:
Egyptians form makeshift militias to stop looters
Editorial: Mubarak's dictatorship must end now
Voices of the Egyptian rebellion
"We've waited for this revolution for years"
New York Times:
Opposition rallies to El Baradei as military reinforces in Cairo
Independent (UK):
Robert Fisk: Death throes of a dictatorship
The Nation:
Live from the Egyptian Revolution
The Globe and Mail (Canada):
Egypt's new vice-president has been crown-prince-in-waiting for years
Enough! Why thousands of young Arabs have taken to the streets in protest
Kansas City Star:
Why has Egypt's army not confronted protesters?
Huffington Post:
A complete guide to the 2011 revolution
Associated Press:
Iraqis watch Egypt unrest with sense of irony
Center for a New American Security:
Egypt: A humble request (another necessary punch to the gut for Western observers)
Los Angeles Times:
White House quietly preparing for a post-Mubarak Egypt
UNCUT:
Egypt's Twitter-less revolution
Mondoweiss:
The Egyptian revolution threatens an American-imposed order of Arabophobia and false choices (h/t
mcollinknight -- highly recommended reading)
Canonical.org:
Why Egypt's popular rebellion is the greatest historical event in a decade, and how Barack Obama missed the boat (I don't agree with this person's assessment of the American response to the crisis in Egypt, but this provides a good background to what's going on, and has some good arguments against the pro-Obama Foreign Policy article I linked above)
As always, feel free to link to this page if you want, and please leave interesting articles and other links related to Egypt and protests throughout the Arab world (especially from non-mainstream and non-Western sources) in the comments. ;-)
Liveblogs:
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Al Jazeera: Saturday 1/29 || Sunday 1/30 || Monday 1/31
Mother Jones (scroll to the bottom [before the comments section] for the latest)
The Lede @ The New York Times
The Guardian (UK)
Other liveblogs, plus video feeds
Al Jazeera:
Egypt front page
BBC:
El Baradei tells crowd "change coming"
Anxious waiting game as standoff continues
Tension rises as jets buzz Tehrir Square in Cairo
Hillary Clinton urges "orderly transition"
Profile: Mohammed El Baradei
Can Mubarak survive the revolt?
Tough questions if revolution succeeds
Foreign Policy:
Pharaoh's End: A roundtable
The Worst of Both Worlds
Five questions about Egypt
President Obama, here is your "game changer"
Unmasking Mubarak's "chaos"
Democracy is not all that different....
Obama's handling Egypt pretty well (h/t
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Guardian:
Egyptians form makeshift militias to stop looters
Editorial: Mubarak's dictatorship must end now
Voices of the Egyptian rebellion
"We've waited for this revolution for years"
New York Times:
Opposition rallies to El Baradei as military reinforces in Cairo
Independent (UK):
Robert Fisk: Death throes of a dictatorship
The Nation:
Live from the Egyptian Revolution
The Globe and Mail (Canada):
Egypt's new vice-president has been crown-prince-in-waiting for years
Enough! Why thousands of young Arabs have taken to the streets in protest
Kansas City Star:
Why has Egypt's army not confronted protesters?
Huffington Post:
A complete guide to the 2011 revolution
Associated Press:
Iraqis watch Egypt unrest with sense of irony
Center for a New American Security:
Egypt: A humble request (another necessary punch to the gut for Western observers)
Los Angeles Times:
White House quietly preparing for a post-Mubarak Egypt
UNCUT:
Egypt's Twitter-less revolution
Mondoweiss:
The Egyptian revolution threatens an American-imposed order of Arabophobia and false choices (h/t
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Canonical.org:
Why Egypt's popular rebellion is the greatest historical event in a decade, and how Barack Obama missed the boat (I don't agree with this person's assessment of the American response to the crisis in Egypt, but this provides a good background to what's going on, and has some good arguments against the pro-Obama Foreign Policy article I linked above)
As always, feel free to link to this page if you want, and please leave interesting articles and other links related to Egypt and protests throughout the Arab world (especially from non-mainstream and non-Western sources) in the comments. ;-)