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'Our Fight Is Not Over': Egyptian-Palestinian Rights Activist Ramy Shaath Freed After 900+ Days

"I had hope, and I continue to have hope," said the co-founder of Egypt's BDS movement. "I have hope for a better Middle East and a better world that we live in."

Jessica Corbett · Jan 8, 2022

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As Climate Emergency Worsens, Freak Storm Sends Snow, Scorpion Plague on Egypt's Aswan

Juan Cole · Nov 14, 2021

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COP Is Dead. Long Live the Movement!

João Camargo · Nov 12, 2021

Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds To Sisi's Egypt. (Photo: CODEPINK)

'Dismaying': Human Rights Groups Blast Biden Plan to OK Millions in Military Aid for Egypt

Brett Wilkins · Sep 14, 2021

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin interrupted a General Dynamics shareholder meeting in Reston, Virginia on May 5, 2021. (Photo: Medea Benjamin)

Peace Activist Interrupts General Dynamics Shareholder Meeting to Blast the Business of War

Brett Wilkins · May 6, 2021

Bloomington, Indiana anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp on Jan. 12, 2021 while protesting against the then-pending execution of Lisa Montgomery, and two others, at Terre Haute Federal Prison this week. Montgomery was to be put to death on Wednesday. President Donald Trump's administration has sped up the execution of prisoners on death row during the last months of his presidency. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

UN Experts Urge Biden to Abolish 'Inherently Flawed' Death Penalty

"There is no time to lose with thousands of individuals on state death rows across the country and several executions scheduled at state level in 2021."

Brett Wilkins · Mar 11, 2021

Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is accused of illegally transferring weapons to Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar. (Photo: The Oxford Union/REX Shutterstock)

Report of Illegal $80 Million Arms Transfer by Erik Prince to Libyan Warlord Raises Question of Who's Backing Former Blackwater CEO

Prince has "been linked to the Trump administration, the Emirati leadership, and the Russians," noted one expert.

Brett Wilkins · Feb 20, 2021

Mohamed Soltan, 32, a U.S. citizen who became a prominent Egyptian political prisoner, at his home on Sunday, May 31, 2020 in Fairfax, Virginia. (Photo: Pete Marovich/Washington Post via Getty Images)

After Vowing 'No More Blank Checks for Trump's Favorite Dictator,' Biden Seeks $200 Million Arms Sale to Egypt

"Here's some missiles. Please stop abusing human rights, please?"

Brett Wilkins · Feb 17, 2021

Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds To Sisi's Egypt. (Photo: CODEPINK)

Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds To Sisi's Egypt

Sisi's reign of power has caused vast human rights abuses and a large-scale breakdown of civil society.

Medea Benjamin · Feb 12, 2021

Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of Geopolitics, Incites Warfare Between Egypt and Ethiopia

Trump is much more terrifying, if equally cartoonish.

Juan Cole · Oct 25, 2020

The U.S. stores upwards of 50 B-61 nuclear gravity bombs at Incirlik

An American General Probably Thinks- “Thanks Trump, for Putting a Target on My Back!”

In 2017, Trump gave the CIA the authority to again use assassin drones after it had been withdrawn by the Obama administration. 

Ann Wright · Jan 5, 2020

A Nativity scene in the southern Califiornia city of Claremont depicting the Holy Family as a separated family held in cages at the U.S. border is sparking controversy and conversations over President Donald Trump's immigration policies. (Photo: Rev. Karen Clark Ristine/Facebook)

Would Refugee Baby Jesus Have Been Torn From Mary’s Arms by Trump?

These American, Christian politicians would not have admitted the holy family when they fled Herod the Great.

Juan Cole · Dec 24, 2019

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Melania Trump and President Trump during the opening of an "anti-extremist" center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2017. (Photo: Saudi Press Agency)

Looming Impeachment Puts Trump in Company of Corrupt Mideast Leaders

Only because the masses turned against their guy did military elites step in to insist they step down. Think about that.

Juan Cole · Nov 1, 2019

Popular Protest: Just How Effective Is It?

The uprisings are many, but are they enough?

James Dorsey · Oct 30, 2019

Shortly before April’s election, the Trump administration offered Netanyahu a campaign fillip by recognising Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in 1967. (Photo: Mark A. Wilson)

Forget Trump’s 'Deal of the Century.' Israel Was Always on Course to Annexation

Ultimately, Israel wants the Palestinians gone entirely, squeezed out into neighbouring Arab states, such as Egypt and Jordan

Jonathan Cook · Jun 20, 2019

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