Egypt's unconstitutional "parliament" that was "dissolved" by the Egyptian military, then "reconvened" by the "president" this week "defied" an unenforced "ban" with a ten-minute "meeting" to declare it would NOT be meeting, pending an "appeal" to a lower court than the "supreme" court which declared the body "illegitimate" to draft a "constitution" for the legally "undocumented" nation.
JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN, Associate Director of Mideast Studies at the University of Wisconsin, [ chomskyfund.org ] parses the Egyptian constitutional conundrum, Muslim Brotherhood and marginalized democracy movement, and analyzes elections and repressions in neighboring Libya;
Bob Marley - "Africa Unite";
AMNESTY CONDEMNS LIBYAN MILITIATOCRACY
Libya's NATO-enabled "republic of militias" held a presidential election this week amid what Amnesty International calls an ongoing regime of "arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, impunity for unlawful killings, and forced displacement."
SANJEEV BERY, Amnesty's Middle East and North African Advocacy Director [ aiusa.org ] details the humanitarian turmoil and racial repression that remains rampant in the former Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;
Akon - "Africa"; and
AIDS ACTIVISTS HIT PFIZER ON HIV DRUG MONOPOLY
The Obama administration is secretly negotiating a "Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement" which would expand drug patent monopolies and curtail the production of cheaper generic drugs, such as HIV/AIDS "cocktails." Protesters recently gathered at Pfizer's New York headquarters to oppose the chemical conglomerate's $80,000 Congressional lobbying campaign, and White House support for the pharmaceutical lobby.
THIAGO BARROZO files an on-the-scene report on the rally for "Five O'Clock Shadow", in stereo.
Anchor: Robert Knight Producer: Thiago Barrozo Engineer: Michael G. Haskins Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
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