My Bookmarx 01/29/2012

• Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor – International – World – Ahram Online

  Twitter’s credibility seems to be jeopardized after proclaiming its plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that breaks local laws, as the youthful company had long prided itself in promoting unfettered expression

  tags: censorship internet internet_freedom Twitter

• Egypt’s Revolutionary Narrative Breaks Down – Lauren E. Bohn | Foreign Policy

  With Hosni Mubarak long gone, a heavily Islamist parliament in place, and the military in uneasy command of the country, who speaks for the revolution?

  tags: egypt revolution SCAF muslim_brotherhood politics

• Twitter to restrict user content in some countries | Reuters

  Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

  tags: Twitter internet internet_freedom censorship

• فايزة أبو النجا: لا يمكن تنفيذ حكم القضاء بعودة شركات الخصخصة إلى القطاع العام – بوابة الشروق

  أكدت الدكتورة فايزة أبو النجا، وزير التعاون الدولي، أن هناك استحالة لتنفيذ أحكام القضاء الإداري بعودة الشركات التي تم خصخصتها، حيث تغير الوضع الفعلي لهذه الشركات بما لها من مقومات وعمالة.

  tags: egypt economy privatization Kamal_Al_Ganzoury Faya_Abul_Naga government SCAF

• Egypt gets dumped by its Washington lobbyists | The Cable

  All three of the lobbying firms representing the Egyptian government in Washington, D.C., dropped Egypt as a client late Friday amid widespread criticism of the ruling military council’s raid of U.S. NGOs in Cairo and its refusal to let American NGO workers leave the country.

  tags: egypt usa lobbying ngo SCAF politics

  • 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. The groups had been working in Egypt for years without being technically registered with the government, but now stand accused of fomenting unrest against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which has been ruling the country since Mubarak’s ouster.

• 1936-1939: The Spanish Civil War and revolution | libcom.org

  A short history of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution which broke out in response to the right-wing and fascist coup attempt of General Franco.

  tags: spain Spanish_Revolution anarchism revolution anarcho-syndicalism workers self_management CNT FAI fascism

• الأناركية بالعربية

  مدونة تحررية تهتم بنشر الفكر الأناركي اللاسلطوي والكتابات التحررية باللغة العربية

  tags: anarchy anarchism theory articles arabic

• ما هي الأناركية

  ما هي الأناركية بيان تعريفي

  tags: anarchy anarchism theory articles

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