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11
2012
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16
2012
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No, the danger is that a real groundswell of short-term pressure will result in further funding and political support to armies with despicable human rights records, armies which will use their new power not to “end a war”, but to consolidate the militarisation of social struggles in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, to further victimise “their own” populations, to ratchet up the exploitation of collective wealth for private and state gain, and to open the door yet wider for AFRICOM and others, all processes which reproduce and entrench the social forces #Kony2012 fanboys and fangirls think they’re getting away from.
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Whatever happens with Kony, this is congealing into a distinct and clumsy post-Iraq pattern: activist networks, dependent on flimsy and superficial friend/enemy constructions, seeking to put state and private military power to work. Save Darfur re-iterated; the development-security nexus socially-networked; the armed wing of faux-civil society.
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Feb
29
2012
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Law 4 of 2012 permits the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, the regulator of investment and companies in Egypt, to settle with investors who have committed either in person, or as an accomplice of a government employee, embezzlement, theft, illegal acquisition or misuse of public funds and property, harming the public welfare, and similar offences, while undertaking any of the investment activities covered by the law, provided they restore the disputed amounts or reimburse the state for their approximate value at the time the offence was committed. The settlement can take place any stage before a defendant is convicted by the final court of appeal.
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the investor and a GAFI representative sign a document together with the terms of the settlement, which is subject to the approval of the Chairman of GAFI. It need hardly be stated that this presents a conflict of interest, as the Chairman of GAFI, if not actually personally implicated by the crime in question, has a strong interest in protecting unfettered investment and avoiding legal issues with foreign investors in particular.
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The ruler, recently arrived on the monarchial or presidential throne, reaches out to the Brothers to benefit from or at least neutralize the political support they command. For their part, the Brothers seek purchase within the state to ward off threats, obtain resources and gain footholds from which they may commence their final ascent to power. But this cooperation will not last, to judge by history — a history well-known to all players in today's unfolding story.
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But this time the outcome may be quite different.
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on the military's production and tensions with neoliberal policies
Feb
4
2012
protester gives speech to soldiers in front of MoD
Feb
3
2012
powerfully echoing chants of يسقط يسقط حكم العسكر
Jan
29
2012
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Apart from gross incompetence, the army’s actions have another explanation: reassertion of a “deep state” that was badly bruised during the January uprising and took some time to regain its footing. While the army may be the bedrock of the post-1952 Egyptian state, the country’s array of security agencies crosses the boundaries between civilian and military. The Ministry of Interior’s agencies were particularly battered by the uprising and the fall of the ex-minister, Habib al-‘Adli, who had amassed unmatched clout in his long years on the job. It is not clear who controls the Ministry today, but it is almost certain that the police veteran in charge when the wintertime clashes broke out, Mansour al-‘Isawi, was not master of his own house.
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he inner mechanisms of the SCAF’s decision-making, its dependence on intelligence agencies that have their own agenda and the likelihood that the generals are not all on the same wavelength must be factored in.
while i am happy to see the US withdraw its imperial bribe, it should be noted how transparently ridiculous and hypocritical it is to do so because a handful of NGOs got raided and not because of the mass violations of human rights and international law. fuck politicians.
while i am happy to see the US withdraw its imperial bribe, it should be noted how transparently ridiculous and hypocritical it is to do so because a handful of NGOs got raided and not because of the mass violations of human rights and international law. fuck politicians.
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The trio came under fire last week for circulating talking points defending Egypt's Dec. 29 raid of several NGOs working to train political parties in Egypt, including three organizations partially funded by the U.S. government
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For years, these firms have been defending the Egyptian military's $1.3 billion annual aid package on Capitol Hill and lobbying for non-military aid to go through the government, and not directly to independent organizations
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