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June 18, 2012 -- The once-promising democratic transition in Egypt is in peril after a power grab by the generals and the courts — holdovers from Hosni Mubarak's repressive regime. This is not what Egyptians rallied and EFTA00671813 died for in Tahrir Square. It guarantees more turmoil. Given Egypt's imp

urmoil. Given Egypt's importance in the Arab world, it sets a terrible example for other societies trying to get beyond autocratic rule. After Mr. Mubarak was deposed 16 months ago, the generals promised to transfer power to a civilian government by July 1. We were always skeptical, and they have now

19 June, 2012 Article 1. NYT Egypt's Democracy Interrupted Editorial Article 2. The Daily Beast China Should Intervene in Syria, Not America Niall Ferguson Article 3. Usa Today Iranian nukes? No worries Kenneth Waltz Article 4. BBC Fears grow for fate of Syria's chemical weapons Jonathan Marcus

Saudis are insisting on an orderly transition of power and a dignified exit for President Ali Abdullah Saleh (a courtesy that was not extended to Hosni Mubarak, despite the former Egyptian president's many years as a strong U.S. ally). To facilitate this handover, Riyadh is leading a diplomatic effort unde

Saleh (a courtesy that was not extended to Hosni Mubarak, despite the former Egyptian president's many ye

le 4. The Washington Post Amid the Arab Spring, a U.S.-Saudi split Nawaf Obaid Article 5. Article 6. Article 7. Newsweek Dr. K's Rx for China Niall Ferguson Hurriyet Daily News aria as Turkey's domestic issue Yusuf Kanli STRATFOR The Geopolitics of Israel: Biblical and Modern EFTA_R1_02029150 EFTA0

s for exporting Iran's essentially Shiite revolution have run into the complications of the Arab Spring. Emboldened by the fall of the pro-American Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Tehran has subsequently watched with disquiet the isolation of Syria's Bashar al-Assad and the potential loss of llamas, not to mention t

erprises remain untouched. This economic empire situates Egypt in neither a socialist economy nor a neo-liberal one: it is an "ambivalent market." Mubarak's regime purposely created ambiguity in the country's economy. On the one hand, it attempted to abide by the 1992 agreement with its creditors to l

ing Syria crisis J. Michael Kennedy Article 4. The Daily Beast The British Prime Minister Is Coming to America EFTA_R1_00225754 EFTA01840698 Niall Ferguson Article 5 NYT What Greece Means Paul Krugman Article 6 The Moscow Times Jews in Russia Alexei Bayer Article I. Bloomberg Iran-Israel Histo

staff Sami Anan; and the heads of Egypt's army, navy and air force — as finally giving Egypt's revolution the chance to remove key remnants of the Mubarak regime and fulfill its promise. Others, particularly non-Islamists, are more prone to see recent actions as the Muslim Brotherhood removing any che

d Abbas. Early hopes that Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi, might put the Hamas genie back in its bottle have subsided. Under his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, donors meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh in March 2009 committed $5 billion to repair damage from Israel's Gaza war in 2006 and promised to end the siege

rity will push the United States towards nuclear arms and cyber-warfare Jan Kallberg & Adam Lowther Article 6. The Daily Beast Obama's Gotta Go Niall Ferguson Article I. The Washington Post Egypt's new lea r m Dennis Ross pt reality August 20 -- A new reality and an alternative reality are shaping up

vival and the restitution of some of the gains they had won by virtue of the 25 January Revolution and that they could never have dreamed of in the Mubarak era. This is the course that the Muslim Brotherhood is currently pursuing with total single-mindedness. It has led some to wonder whether if the Eg

ting in Lyria. It's a policy that Niall Ferguson calls "one of the great fiascos of post- World War Two American foreign policy". (Mental note: send Niall Ferguson a book about the Vietnam War.) The charge isn't just being hurled in Washington. According to John McCain: "I travel all around the world and I hea

looks as if he is not beholden to US support or interest to the local population, which is something that the Egyptian public has held against both Mubarak and Morsi, while Putin appears to his population as if he is infiltrating a US stronghold in the region and restoring Russia's cold war glory. All

an Outlook piece in the Washington Post, warns about the dangers of negotiating with bad guys. The other comes from ubiquitous Harvard know-it-all Niall Ferguson, who ponders Obama's failure to lead in the Wall Street Journal. Both men seize on Obama's inconsistency and inconstancy, implying— though neither

Sawiris, won about 14 percent of the vote. The secular but hardly liberal Wafd Party, which thrived as a corrupt, sanctioned opposition party under Mubarak, won about another 10 percent. So, at a stretch, a quarter of the voters in round one went for secular parties -- and this in Cairo, Alexandria, an

ot For Putin Kathryn Stoner-Weiss EFTA_R1_02047559 EFTA02695882 2 Article 1. The Daily Beast Great Britain Saves Itself by Rejecting the EU Niall Ferguson December 9, 2011 -- To listen to some conservative commentary in London on Friday, you would think the British Prime Minister David Cameron just m

alysts tell me that if Assad goes down, the Kremlin will earn a reputation of supporting allies-something the United States lacks after letting the Mubarak regime go down quickly. The real question is whether Russia will keep the Soviet-era naval base in Tartus on Syria's Mediterranean coast. While th

Article 1. NYT Unity Deal Brings Risks for Abbas and Israel Ethan Bronner Article 2. The Daily Beast Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction Niall Ferguson Article 3. Wall Street Journal (How) Should Israel Bomb Iran? Bret Stephens Article 4. The Daily Beast Israel and Netanyahu, Pipe Down the Thr

erious dent in further Turkish initiatives. Turkey's loss, however, may turn out to be Egypt's gain. Freed from the stagnant rule of former President Hosni Mubarak, Cairo is now expected to play a more active role in Arab affairs. Instead of continuing Mubarak's policy, conducted in complicity with Israel, of pu

eed from the stagnant rule of former President Hosni Mubarak, Cairo is now expected to play a more active role in Arab affairs. Instead of continuing Mubarak's policy, conducted in complicity with Israel, of punishing Gaza and isolating its Hamas government, Egypt is reported to be pushing for a reconcilia

ence and technology to countries that would never have benefited from them otherwise. Foremost among the new generation of revisionist historians was Niall Ferguson of Harvard University, whose television series, based on his new book "Civilization: The West and the Rest," has just started showing in Britain. In

rge Mitchell Daniel Stone Article 4. The Washington Post Amid the Arab Spring, a U.S.-Saudi split Nawaf Obaid Article 5 Newsweek Dr. K's Rx for China Niall Ferguson Article 6 Hurriyet Daily News Syria as Turkey's domestic issue Yusuf Kanli Article 7. STRATFOR The Geopolitics of Israel: Biblical and Modern HOUSE_O

the Saudis are insisting on an orderly transition of power and a dignified exit for President Ali Abdullah Saleh (a courtesy that was not extended to Hosni Mubarak, despite the former Egyptian president's many years as a strong U.S. ally). To facilitate this handover, Riyadh is leading a diplomatic effort under

Saleh (a courtesy that was not extended to Hosni Mubarak, despite the former Egyptian president's many yea