تقرير المرصد النقابي والعمالي حول الاحتجاجات في شهر سبتمبر واكتوبر

http://arabist.net/arabawy/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/sept3weeksindustrialaction.pdf

Click on the link to download the (Arabic) report on industrial action during the first three weeks of September, put together by the Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch…

New pyramid discovered!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_new_pyramid_5

Forced evictions

In 1948 a British police report attested: "Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab population to stay and carry on with their normal lives..."  that was not true then, and it is not true now.  It is mind boggling that 60 years later Palestinians are still forced to leave their homes!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7729487.stm

Amnesty sites serious human rights violations in Yemen

Amnesty International expresses concern about human rights situation in Yemen

http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2008/11/12/serious-human-rights-violations-in-yemen-amnesty/

Court Orders Release of 17 Innocent Guantanamo Detainees into US

It's about damn time!

The worst part is this: All were cleared for release long ago. However, because of the stigma of their detention at Guantánamo and for fear of offending China, no other country had agreed to offer these men safe haven. 

I can't think of greater torment than to live innocently behind bars for seven years!  I wonder how many more innocent lives must suffer.  Close Guantanamo Now

al-Saleh mosque, national wonder or national disaster!

The Yemeni government had a genius idea of dealing with Yemen’s poverty, high illiteracy rates, starvation, lack of water and health care.  Building a very expensive and lavish “Jami’I al-Salih”, or Salih mosque.  What a great idea, they must have had some very smart advisers.  Now when people demand and seek their rights, the government can just remind them that they built an amazing mosque for them, where they can go and ask God to help in solving their problems. 

 

There is nothing “Saleh” about this mosque.  The grandeur of the mosque represents the corruption so apparent in everyday life. It makes me sick.