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Egyptian Chronicles: Breaking News : An Attempt to Hijack An Egyptian Plane
The govt will use this stupid attempt to divert the attention from domestic events in the coming days.
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: How the New York Times is so unreliable
Egypt and beyond: Lazy workers and neo-colonial managers
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To me it sounds a lot like the racist attitudes to the "natives" that were often expressed by foreign managers and colonial officials during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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In other words, the railway workers' demands to receive a living wage was dismissed as an expression of an irrational oriental attitude to work. Personally, I think that if you pay your workers 150-300 Egyptian pounds per month (which won't bring them and their families above the poverty limit) you shouldn't be surprised if they will do anything to escape work or leave as soon as they find another opportunity.
Turkey's troubled history with May Day / 0 - Hürriyet
From the Memory of the Class...
Solidarity with Mahalla in Istanbul وقفة تضامن مع المحلة في إسطنبول - a set on Flickr
In solidarity with the Mahalla April Intifada..
40,000 demonstrate against Turkish government as economic crisis deepens
Some 40,000 people demonstrated in Istanbul February 15 against the policies of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) government in the midst of the country’s enormous economic crisis.
Egypt and beyond: Erdogans "outburst"- a distraction for the global elite
It was just a show, of course, as Stratfor writes: "Turkey is effectively an ally of Israel. Given this alliance, the recent events in Gaza put Erdogan in a difficult position. The Turkish prime minister needed to show his opposition to Israel’s policies
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: On the Turkish role
I received so many links about the scene of the Turkish prime minister in Davos. It would have been more impressive if the close political, military, and intelligence relations between Turkey and Israel are suspended. Short of that, the scene is a gimmick
Turkey stops being ‘reliable friend’ of Israel|31Jan09|Socialist Worker
This extraordinary diplomatic breakdown is now putting bilateral economic and military agreements between Turkey and Israel at risk.
These include an Israeli arms deal worth £123 million signed ten days before the attack on Gaza and a £3 billion deal for
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