America’s Jekyll And Hyde Foreign Policy In The Middle East

Is the U.S. exporting democracy in response to calls for it around the world, or is it simply using this as a guise to assert corporate imperialism that does more harm than good?

Catherine Shakdam
By Catherine Shakdam

A Lebanese army soldier sits on his armored personnel carrier, as he stands guard outside the Burger King as part of stepped up security measures, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday Sept. 15, 2012. The world watched in fascination as Egyptians, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis, Tunisians and Bahrainis took to the streets of their

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MintPress #TBT: A Ret. Pentagon Official Predicted Saudi Ambitions For ME Through Use Of Terror In 2011

In 2011, Mnar Muhawesh, founder and editor-in-chief of MintPress News, interviewed Air Force Col. B. Wayne Quist (Ret.) about goings on in the Middle East. Quist detailed Saudi plans for the region — plans that are important to reflect upon today.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
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  Editor’s Note: Originally published in May 2011 on MintPress.net, the precursor to MintPress News, the following interview by Mnar Muhawesh, founder and editor-in-chief of MintPress, provides an in-depth look at Saudi Arabia’s plans for the region.  Four years have passed and much has come to fruition, as the rebels armed and

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230 Egyptian Activists, Including Ahmed Douma, Get Life Sentences

Douma becomes the latest leader from the Tahrir Square uprising to face charges. All were charged with staging “riots.”

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar

An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist Ahmed Douma along with 229 other anti-Mubarak activists to life in prison on Wednesday after the court held hearings for 269 people connected to “the cabinet headquarters events” of December 2011, judicial sources said. Douma and 268 others were accused of staging “riots” outside central Cairo's

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WMDs: The Rhetoric Fueling The War On Terror And The Arab Spring

The “weapons of mass destruction” premise has proven to be a mere pretext for war. It has ultimately done little more than distract attention away from the death and destruction wrought by intervening forces.

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi
President Bush speaks at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on, July 12, 2004 where he his decision to invade Iraq even as he conceded on that investigators had not found the weapons of mass destruction. (AP/Mark Humphrey)

The weapons of mass destruction (WMD) premise has proven useful throughout the United States’ continued imperialist infiltration of the Middle East. Indeed, former President George W. Bush’s address to Congress on Sept. 20, 2001 can be read as a prelude to more recent intervention galvanized under the banner of democracy. In his address, Bush

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Egypt Sentences 188 Protesters To Death

The government crackdown in Egypt on Mursi supporters since the army ousted him on July 3 last year has resulted in more than 1,400 people dead and thousands jailed.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar
Mideast Egypt

Human rights groups slammed Egypt Wednesday over the mass death sentencing of 188 Islamists days after murder charges were dropped against ex-president Hosni Mubarak. A Cairo court sentenced 188 supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi to death Tuesday over the killing of 13 policemen in a village on the outskirts of Cairo on August 14,

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Egypt’s Arab Spring 2.0

Egyptians Take To The Streets After Hosni Mubarak Acquitted For 2011 Protester Deaths

Global Post
By Global Post
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Protesters returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday, flouting a ban on protests, after an Egyptian court tossed out charges against ousted president Hosni Mubarak for the deaths of almost 900 protesters during the country’s 2011 uprising. In an interview shortly after the court’s decision, Mubarak said that he did “nothing wrong at

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