Again this year, the World Economic Forum builds an unbreachable wall between itself and its failed ideas and the rest of the world
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The transition from a neoliberal comprador police state to a democratic welfare state is a momentous task that demands calm and tactful collective effort
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Egypt now has a legitimate parliament with much work to do; a far cry from the revolutionary street justice some have been calling for
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A year into the revolution, much has changed, but more hasn’t — at least yet
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Before Islamists have even taken power, some are thinking of fleeing the country, scared about what they imagine as a coming clampdown on liberties. Their fear is the real opening to dictatorship
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Quietly and without much media furore, the Doomsday Clock was just moved closer to catastrophe
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Atrocious, appalling, unbelievably ugly, writes Youssef Rakha. But the political antics of Tawfik Okasha, owner and director of Al Fara'een satellite channel, has implications for Egyptian society
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As the Islamists celebrate a landslide victory in Egypt’s first democratic elections, the question of which political force is likely to ally itself with which other poses itself now
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The only eyes worth publishing for are those of the anonymous reader somewhere for whom the struggle to understand the world through words still has meaning
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Regardless of who won or lost, successful completion of free parliamentary polls opens new chapter in country's history
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While an alliance between the ruling SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood is not impossible, the Salafists might be better suited for this alliance
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The Palestinian leadership in its approach to the UN for membership appears to not understand fully the relevant procedure, somewhat suspiciously
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