Post(s) tagged with "egypt"
If you don’t know already, YOU SHOULD GET TO KNOW THIS MAN.
SLAVOJ ZIZEK.
In 1902, a team of geologists guided their camels into a valley in Egypt’s Western Desert—a desolate, dream-like place. Centuries of strong wind had sculpted sandstone rocks into alien shapes, and at night the moonlight was so bright that the sand glowed like gold. There was no water for miles. A nearby hill was known as “Mountain of Hell” because of the infernal summer heat.
Yet in this parched valley lay the bones of whales.
Some of the skeletons were 50 feet long, with vertebrae as thick as campfire logs. They dated back 37 million years, to an era when a shallow, tropical sea covered this area and all of northern Egypt.
Source: smithsonianmag.com
Gaza Strip: Children wave a Palestinian flag during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to end the power crisis, near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
It’s happening already.
Source: q4rrtsiluni
Neo-colonialism
seriously
Source: myjspace
Doomsday Clock Moves One Minute Closer To Midnight
“The failure by the US, China, Iran, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Israel to act on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and by North Korea on a treaty to cut off production of nuclear weapons material “continues to leave the world at risk from continued development of nuclear weapons”, he said.
The potential for nuclear weapons use in regional conflicts in the Middle East, Northeast Asia and particularly in South Asia was also alarming, BAS said.
Global climate change was also an issue that needed to be addressed, according to Allison Macfarlane, a BAS Science and Security Board member.”
More here.
Source: progressivefriends
Ottoman Empire during the reign of Selim I.
Source: infiniteregretness
Clashes in Cairo
Source: reuters.com
Thousands of women massed in Tahrir Square here on Tuesday afternoon and marched to a journalists’ syndicate and back in a demonstration that grew by the minute into an extraordinary expression of anger at the treatment of women by the military police as they protested against continued military rule.
Many held posters of the most sensational image of violence over the last weekend: a group of soldiers pulling the abaya off a prone woman to reveal her blue bra as one raises a boot to kick her. The picture, circulated around the world, has become a rallying point for activists opposed to military rule, though cameras also captured soldiers pulling the clothes off other women.
The march, guarded by a cordon of male protesters, was a surprising turn. In Egypt, as in other countries swept by the revolts of the Arab Spring, women played important roles, raising hopes that broader social and political rights would emerge along with more accountable governments. But with the main popular focus on preparing for elections and protesting the military’s continued hold on power, women here had grown less politically visible.
The women’s protest came on the fifth day of violent clashes between Egyptian soldiers and protesters. The severity of the military’s defense of its hold on power, even as the newly elected Parliament begins to take shape, has restored a degree of unity that had been missing among the civilian political factions, liberal and Islamist, since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in February.
(Photo: Asmaa Waguih / Reuters via the New York Times)
Loading more posts
Ask
Members
Following
Stuff I like
-
mutualassureddistraction asked: 13: On the state? I'm dubious: I do admire social achievements (mass education, scientific research, public healthcare, facilities) gained in the last centuries thanks to a great instrument such as the centralized State but, at the same time, I abhor the ominous consequences (genocides, ethnocides, ecocide, etc.) of such a great powerful machine. Sometimes Anarchism appears to me a good answer but how to deal with a world inhabitated wit 9 billions people or more? (Thanks)
Thanks for the q! You say some very true things...
-
do you ever think about how many people are out...
-
The Struggle: Then and Now.
... -
“
In the middle of my PhD, I reached a point where...
” -
Anonymous asked: so i went to my psychiatrist and we were talking about relationships and he goes like... did you know that people who like obese people are sick?
oh jeez. your psychiatrist sounds like...
