Thursday, January 16, 2014

Egyptian Military Tyrants' New “Constitution” Squeaks By With Only 95% of Vote in Plebiscite

Surprising it wasn't 99%, as the opponents boycotted the vote, 450 people who tried to post posters against the “Constitution” were arrested, and the Egyptian propaganda system, which has been gushing a niagara of the most hysterical propaganda in support of the military oligarchy, has presented it as a patriotic duty to vote “yes.”

NPR has been awful in its coverage. Ignoring the massive repression.Even the BBC is better. As usual, one has to go to either the fringes of establishment (aka “respectable”) media for the facts you need, or alternatives like democracynow.org.

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