UPDATE:
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces and ending a 30-year grip on the largest Arab nation.In a stunning reversal of fortunes, Omar Suleiman, the new vice-president, announced in a televised address on Friday evening that the president was “waiving” his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. (Link)
Al Jazeera is really the only true coverage of the issues in Egypt. Al Jazeera is being slammed by Mubarak and followers. I have even heard derogatory remarks from America and Israel. But the truth is this is the real situation and no cover up is intended and allowed…
Watch a few minutes of streaming live video. At least while we can still get such true pictures and coverage. If my site gets the video blocked try the link below. It leads to the main Al Jazeera site…
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
Makes you think doesn’t it? They are really down on America and it is getting worse. Our (American) involvement now and in the past has backfired hugely. This is a real example of why we need to keep our nose at home and take care of ourselves first and foremost…
Ron Paul said, “This is a typical example of what happens when we run on intervention-type foreign policies. We get in the middle of these fights. We’ve been in the middle of this for 30 years now. We’ve given Mubarak $60 billion. We’re responsible for a lot of the mess that is over there,” (Link)
Hummm… (Powder keg comes to mind as I watch this video streaming live…)
Windows to Russia!
- CIA watching Al Jazeera, learns Mubarak about to go (warincontext.org)
- Egypt takes aim at Al-Jazeera for protest coverage (sfgate.com)
- Egyptian unrest fuels demand for Al Jazeera English (theglobeandmail.com)
- Egypt takes aim at Al-Jazeera for protest coverage (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- How Al Jazeera used Twitter to distribute its TV signal (lostremote.com)
- Al Jazeera offering up creative commons coverage of Egypt (tobiasbuckell.com)
- Egypt blames Al-Jazeera for stoking protests (ctv.ca)
- How Al Jazeera tweets (ryansholin.com)
- Should Americans Be Demanding Al Jazeera English? (bigthink.com)