“You didn’t really think he was going to step down, did you?” My heart was black. I felt like a heel. How could I have let the cheering and the flags and the singing and chanting lead me to believe in change, lead me to believe that something good can happen there? That was yesterday. […]
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Suleiman Speaks
Thu, 10 Feb 2011, 05:23 PM (-06:00)
And so we hear that the tyrant chooses to remain. The calls of the people fall on the deaf ears of the entrenched elite. The tyrant speaks and the people shake their shoes at him. And then the newly minted Vice President, Omar Suleiman, speaks. “Go back home,” he says. “Go back to your work.” […]
Yalla!
Thu, 10 Feb 2011, 01:09 PM (-06:00)
It’s 19 hours GMT, and Al Jazeera is covering live what is sure to be one of the great events of the early 21st century. What amazing coverage. I had given up on journalism. “After seventeen days of protest, excitement is growing.” And as far as you can see, they tell us, every street leading into […]