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04 Jul 2013

Morsi “Didn’t Play Fairly”

Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Saif Kisham, a doctor and activist about the day’s events in Egypt. Kisham said Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi “didn’t play fairly” after his election, overturning the country’s courts and laws, and threatening the future of free elections, by excluding Egyptians who didn’t belong to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Meanwhile, a panel assembled by the Wall Street Journal, including  Nancy Messieh of the Atlantic Council, WSJ Middle East bureau chief Bill Spindle and Simon Constable discuss the ouster of Morsi by the military and what comes next for the country and the Middle East.

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04 Jul 2013

Egyptian Military Ousts Morsi

The head of the Egyptian army has appeared live on state television to announce the suspension of the constitution. General Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, flanked by religious and military leaders, said the chief justice of constitutional court would take the powers of the presidency. The announcement means President Mohammed Morsi is no longer in power. Anti-Morsi protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square gave out a huge cheer in response to the speech, which follows four days of huge nationwide street protests against Morsi, who refused to negotiate with his detractors.

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03 Jul 2013

Egyptian President Digs In

The clock is now ticking down towards the deadline set by the Egyptian army for President Mohamed Morsi to meet the concerns of the protesters on the streets. The President is digging in his heels, rejecting the army’s ultimatum.

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01 Jul 2013

Anti-Morsi Protests Rock Egypt

Mass protests calling for the resignation of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and an early presidential election are taking place in Cairo and around Egypt. His opponents say he has failed to tackle economic and security problems and instead pushed the Islamist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood party.The protests come on the first anniversary of Morsi’s election as Egypt’s first Islamist president.

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29 Jun 2013

Rivals Clash in Egypt

Tens of thousands of backers and opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president held competing rallies and new clashes erupted between the two sides in the country’s second largest city, Alexandria, in a prelude to massive nationwide protests planned by the opposition for June 30 demanding Mohammed Morsi’s removal.

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06 Apr 2013

Egyptian Embassy in De-Nile-Al

Jon Stewart’s support of Bassem Youssef after the Egyptian comedian got locked up for making fun of the president of Egypt was passionate and expected.  What was unexpected, however, was a Twitter fallout between the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and Egyptian officials. The U.S. Embassy made the mistake of tweeting a link to The Daily Show‘s video, which angered Egyptian officials and Islamists. The embassy tried to correct the mistake by taking down its entire Twitter page. Tsk, tsk.

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31 Mar 2013

Attack of the Fresh Produce

Ben Crystal from Personal Liberty Digest wonders if President Obama’s signing of the Monsanto Protection Act will spur a fresh produce counter-attack. In this edition of The Great Eight, Crystal also weighs in on Ashley Judd’s decision not to run for Senate in Kentucky and on Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s latest belligerent warnings.

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03 Feb 2013

Egypt’s Reign of Political Rapes

A wave of sexual assaults in Cairo has led critics of the Morsi regime to charge that Egyptian Islamists are using rape as a tool to silence political dissent. Many of the victims of the attacks have been women protesting for equal rights. Criticism of the regime has intensified since reports emerged of 25 rapes taking place in Tahrir Square.

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Meanwhile, Russia Today captured some disturbing video footage of Cairo police stripping a protester and dragging him through the streets to an awaiting van. Two weeks in, the protests do not appear to be abating but growing more frequent and violent.

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25 Jan 2013

More Seething from Morsi

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi seems hellbent to prove he’s a bigger anti-Semite than Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. After previously calling Jews the descendants of “apes and pigs,” Morsi now has told a delegation of visiting US senators that he’d enjoy a better rep in America if it wasn’t for the “controlled” media that’s biased against him.

Wrong, Lipschitz. No one has to misinterpret your words to make you look bad. Every time you open your mouth, you demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that every bone in your body is bigoted and bent. Spare us a few billion shekels, Obama, and cast this clown adrift. If he counts as an American ally, who needs enemies?

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21 Jan 2013

Egypt Silencing Free Speech

The Egyptian regime of Mohammed Morsi has stepped up attacks on journalists, charging them with insulting his leadership. In fact, a new human rights report shows that Morsi has brought four times more legal cases against journalists and media figures than the regime of the deposed Hosni Mubarak. So much for the myth of the Arab Spring translating into a burst of freedom.

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