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US double standards on Ukraine war are hard to stomach
Mar 04, 2022 15:25US President Joe Biden’s insistence that “we stand for freedom” is contradicted by his administration’s support for brutal dictatorships in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere.
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Biden OK’s $2.5 billion arms sale to Egypt, disregarding government oppression
Jan 30, 2022 17:50The U.S. State Department recently approved a sprawling $2.5 billion arms sale to Egypt even as the Biden administration continues to withhold a far smaller sum of military aid — $130 million — over expressed concerns about human rights abuses by the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a disconnect that critics said makes a mockery of U.S. leaders’ rhetoric.
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Suez Canal logjam boosts China-Europe rail link
Mar 31, 2021 16:12New proposals have been made to expand the capacity of the express rail cargo lines between Chinese plants and European nodes and slash not only time but also cost to lure more goods to flow overland from China to Europe. 2020 data from the Suez Canal’s operator shows as much as 80% of the trade between Asia and Europe still flows via the Canal.
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Lame-duck Trump's "West Asia bonanza" continues with approval of $290 million weapons sale to Saudi regime
Jan 06, 2021 20:45The U.S. State Department has announced a flurry of deals, including $290 million in Boeing-made, precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, $65 million in drones and fighter jets to the UAE, $169 million in military equipment to Egypt, and $4 billion in helicopters to Kuwait.
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No tears for Pharaoh Mubarak
Feb 27, 2020 19:58Iran’s English language daily Kayhan International in its Viewpoint Column on Wednesday, February 26, titled “No Tears for Pharaoh Mubarak” referred to some of the misdeeds of the former Egyptian president, including his unwarranted enmity towards the Islamic Republic of Iran during Saddam’s war in which Egyptian troops were sent to Iraq to fight and kill Iranian Muslims.
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Talk like an Egyptian: Mummy’s voice heard 3,000 years after death
Jan 28, 2020 11:05The voice of an ancient Egyptian priest has been heard for the first time in more than 3,000 years, thanks to a detailed reconstruction of his vocal tract from his mummified remains.
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Morsi died or was murdered, while reciting patriotic poem in a cage
Jul 04, 2019 08:46Mohammed Morsi tried to please everyone in a terribly divided Egyptian society, but in the end, nobody was satisfied, says USSR born Czech-Russian philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek who has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries, and wrote several books from his adopted homeland, the US, including “Exposing Lies of the Empire”.
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Trump’s America and Egypt’s dictatorship deserve each other
Jun 30, 2019 22:55The US is notorious for its support of unrepresentative rulers and tyrannical regimes, coupled with its hostility towards popular and democratic systems of government, which it tries to overthrow.
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Israel admits role in installing Sisi’s dictatorship in Egypt
Apr 13, 2019 21:09The regime of Abdul-Fattah as-Sisi, widely considered a military dictatorship despite a pale sheen of democracy, has forged increasingly close ties with the illegal Zionist regime ever since he came to power in the 2013 coup, says Chile-based American investigative journalist Whitney Webb in her article for MintPress, titled: “Israel Admits Role in Installing Sisi’s Dictatorship in Egypt”.
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EU-Arab League Summit: Lots of senseless fuss
Mar 10, 2019 16:55The Egyptian resort Sharm El Sheikh was closed to tourists for a whole week.