The bravery, discipline, and creativity of the Egyptian revolutionary movement is nothing short of a political miracle, deserving to be regarded as one of the seven political wonders of the modern world! Does this seemingly amateur (in the best sense of the word) movement in Egypt have the sustaining energy, historical knowledge, and political sophistication [...]

So Hamas are not coming out to play at the elections the Palestinian Authority wants to hold before September. And who can blame them? Last time, I hear, President Abbas and his gruesome crew wouldn’t allow Hamas to contest the elections under their own party name… and they still lost, went into a sulk, turned [...]

“Enclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, “diplomats,” are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they are recruiting and training terrorists. There is no evidence of Davis and those like him be they dozens, hundreds or thousands, are actually performing any mission in either the best interests of either the United States [...]

US POLITICIANS MAY NEED TO HEAR THEMSELVES TALK When US politicians are forced to discuss critical Middle East matters, more often than not their remarks either display an ignorance of facts, are shaped more by political needs than reality, or are just plain dumb. Commentary about the popular revolt in Egypt provides a case in [...]

“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.” –Napoleon Bonaparte By Mohamed Khodr  — My Catbird Seat Freedom!! How sweet its sound, how delicious its taste, how musical its voice, how fresh its air, how aromatic its [...]

Today, proudly, we are all Egyptian. Click here: Revolution Walk from Tim King on Vimeo. (SALEM, Ore.) – The Bangles might not have ever considered that their 1986 hit song ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’ would today, in 2011, take on the tone and role of a ballad for a people’s movement of epic proportions. There [...]

Will democracy in Egypt benefit the Palestinians? By Alan Hart – My Catbird Seat For decades, and despite much rhetoric to the contrary, American-led Western policy has been to prefer Arab dictatorship (authoritarianism in various forms) to Arab democracy. This preference was determined by two main assessments. One was that corrupt and repressive Arab regimes [...]

“Simple description of observable reality does nothing more than capture the ‘accidents’ that identify the particularity of something, not convey the greater universal truths, the ideal form, that lies hidden beneath the accidental appearance.” By William A. Cook –  My Catbird Seat For fifteen days and counting, the people of the world have been watching [...]