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In continuation of steps taken by the Muslim Brotherhood to urge the government to put an end to the phenomena of train crash accidents, Dr. Abdul Fattah Hassan, an MB Parliamentary Bloc member, tabled two requests of information to both Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazeef and Minister of Health Dr. Mohammed Awad Tageddin in which he depicted the recurrent train accidents as a sign of deteriorating..

The theory that Communism and fascism were twins was developed to justify the Cold War, but now the right needs a new enemy - and has discovered ’Islamofascism’ , writes Anindya Bhattacharyya
At the beginning of August, at the height of Israel’s brutal military assault on Lebanon, Tony Blair gave a widely reported speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council where he warned of "an arc of..

The history of American war profiteering is rife with egregious examples of incompetence, fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement, bribery and misconduct. As war historian Stuart Brandes has suggested, each new war is infected with new forms of war profiteering. Iraq is no exception. From criminal mismanagement of Iraq’s oil revenues to armed private security contractors operating with virtual impunit..

It is now the long morning after for President George W Bush and his merry band of misguided Middle East grand strategists, who gambled big by letting the Israeli army run wild in Lebanon and came up empty.

As in Iraq, circa March 2003, the Arab world was supposed to have been shocked and awed by an almighty display of US-made firepower, with the uppity Islamists rather than the uppity..

DR. KIM R. HOLMES: It is an honor and a privi­lege to introduce the Honorable Natan Sharansky, a member of the Israeli parliament, former Soviet dissi­dent, and stalwart advocate of freedom. He will deliver our inaugural Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Lecture: “Is Freedom for Everyone?”

We created this new lectu..

 As mentioned yesterday, The New Republic’s Spencer Ackerman, in a

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The Muslim Brotherhood is experiencing a state of transformations which wrenches from the minds the “stillness” state that the researchers and analysts used to observe in the MB. Such transformations can turn the MB into a new movement despite the fact that many advocates or even the opponents strive to keep in minds the old image of MB.

The m..

Last week’s collision between two trains on a busy route packed with workers travelling into Cairo for work from the poorer northern outskirts of the city has exposed the social and political relations within Egypt today.

At least 58 people were killed and 143 injured in the crash that occurred when a stationary train at Qalyoub station was hit by another travelling at 50 miles an hour,..

A seminar on Shiites and Sunnis in Egypt was held at the Journalists Union on September 6, 2006, where a host of scholars and Islamic thinkers participated. The seminar was aimed to ward off attempts of sectarian sedition which some seek to rise within Muslims. The participants unanimously called on Muslims, Sunnis and Shiites alike, to respect each other’s schools of opinion, enjoining the Sun..

In a statement to Jazeera Satellite Channel on September 7, 2006, MB Executive Bureau Member Dr. Abdul Monem Abul Fotouh said that the Bush Administration is to blame for the growing hatred dominating the Arab and Islamic worlds toward the US government, citing the recently disclosed overseas prisons run by CIA as part of the so called "war on terror". Asked if some Arab states run such pr..

The Islamic movement in Jordan on September 7, 2006, settled the issue of its members of Parliament, rejecting resignations tendered by some of its MPs in protest of the recent government measures against the movement. In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front Zaki bin Arsheed said that the group agreed ,with majority and after an in depth analysis of..

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) said it reported 156 cases of torture and 81 deaths of detained individuals in police custody from 2000 to 2005. The organization suspects that deaths may have been caused by torture with electric shocks, beatings and sexual abuse. The organization released its report on Thursday September 7, 2006, which carried the titl..

In response to president Mubarak’s call for MPs to voice their opinions concerning proposed constitutional amendments, the MB Parliamentary Bloc announced it will hold a workshop on its vision toward these amendments on Tuesday September 12, 2006 at Maadi Hotel. Legal and constitutional experts as well as representatives of different Egyptian political groups will discuss the Bloc’ vi..

Your people understand the Palestinians suffer a great injustice, Mr Blair - but you are adding to it

Despite the historic responsibility of successive British governments for what has befallen our people, from the Balfour declaration to the catastrophe of dispossession, Palestinians had hoped that the new generation of British politicians might break with the past and stand for tr..

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about Summir Said, a young woman journalist working for the Reuters bureau in Cairo who is being harassed by the security services. Security agents made threats when they went to her home yesterday, saying she would regret it if she did not report at once to their headquarters in the south Cairo district of Lazoghly.
 
The authorities ha..

Progressives desperately need to have a real debate on core foreign policy principles. An argument, in two parts, for resisting the realist temptation and reclaiming democracy promotion from Bush.

“Don’t doubt yourselves. We know who we are.” Senator Barak Obama said those words to an audience of progressives in a well-received speech at th..

2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks

72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror

2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts

2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanis..

Freedom and democracy are promoted abroad while their core operative values are eroded in the United States and England, argues Rami Khouri.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in occupied Palestine Saturday, 9 September, in what seemed another futile (and insincere) effort to push the virtually non-existent “peace process” forward.

Blair has met with Israeli leaders and officials who have just carried out a genocidal campaign against Lebanon , resulting in the death and maiming of thousands of Lebanese civilians. The ..