Here are two videos: The demands: And the fear barrier is broken:

“Please use my real name Omar from now on—we have nothing left to hide anymore” That is how the man I was calling Yousry started his remarkable intervie with me a few hours ago. At a point in our conversation he also said “Please tell Mubarak we do not need his damn internet for the […]

A mother with child watches protesters gather in Tahrir Square yesterday. (Photo: MSNBC) This morning I had an opportunity to conduct an impromptu interview with Ahmed Moor in Cairo by Skype. He was just returning from Tahrir Square and offers his take on the day’s events, and where things seem to be headed in Eqypt. […]

My new theme is the cleavage between the American Jewish community and the Israel lobby over political values in Egypt. Howard Berman is the ranking Democrat on House Foreign Affairs. He says, “If a stable democracy is to emerge, there must be wide participation by all secular forces in the country.” But Israel has a […]

K. Petersen-Overton (@neonmeatte) 1/31/11 5:18 PM Brooklyn College has decided to rehire me unconditionally! This is a victory for academic freedom in the United States. More later. Congratulations to Brooklyn College and Kristof Petersen-Overton! Salon’s Justin Elliott has the story here.

What hath Egypt wrought! Danielle Pletka of American Enterprise Institute, George W Bush’s neoconservative braintrust, says that the U.S. should cut aid to Israel. Neoconservatism is imploding… And there are some lessons in what has happened in Egypt for our nation’s legislators: •    Rubber-stamping billion dollar aid programs year in and year out is irresponsible […]

And other news from Today in Palestine:

The Egyptian army has said that it will not use force to put down the popular movement for reform… Gary Ackerman, L.I. congressman, and big Israel supporter, won’t stand in the way either. Beautiful statement: “The Egyptian people have made their wishes very clear: it is time for President Mubarak to step down and allow […]

That’s the tweet of the day. Here is a live stream for the latest from Egypt:   And here is a news digest from the Egyptian revolution:

Felice Gelman, a Westchester NY activist who has led several delegations to Gaza and Egypt, is back in Cairo. She sent along two reports from Saturday and Sunday that Mondo editor has made one. These are her photographs, too: [SaturdWe arrived in Egypt about 5 pm, went thru immigration and customs with no signs of […]

I wish the American media were reflecting more of the pure democratic joy of the Egyptian revolution. And here is why we insist on calling it a revolution at this site: Because a year ago when my friends and I who were enraged by human rights violations in Gaza tried to take over Tahrir Square, […]

My big new theme is, Let the political imagination of the north African Arabs come and ravish the United States. Open up the crusted channels of our thinking. When all that Richard Haas of the Council on Foreign Relations can talk about is stability, i.e., protect Israel at any cost. Here is Russ Douthat in […]

Here are the folks Obama should be listening to, it’s a letter from brains in his former base, the libleft and some realists too, among them Noam Chomsky, Nader Hashemi, Stephen Zunes, Nir Rosen, As’ad AbuKhalil, Moustafa Bayoumi, William Quandt, Hamid Dabashi, Diane Singerman, Ian Lustick. They tell him Mubarak must go. And note the […]

Obama must have wanted to make the Cairo speech for years–probably fantasized about it before he ran for president. But he lacked the courage to place, or keep around him, the people who could advance the change he spoke for; and he didn’t have the knowledge or resourcefulness to take the lead himself. Also, he […]

Here is a translation of a video that was posted yesterday: Say what parliament, and what they have done. And `Ala`a Mubarak, for every business deal, takes a commission. They say he has repented, and is eating kabab that he bought with his dad’s money. And the fortune oh, has slaughtered the poor And the […]

Ahmed Moor wrote this article on Thursday in Cairo. It appears here for the first time. I didn’t know where to go for today’s round of anti-regime protests. There wasn’t any question of whether they’d happen; Tuesday invigorated people. I spent some time in the morning trying to identify where demonstrators were likely going to […]

Bill Kristol said at Yivo a few years ago, prophetically, that Zionists will have to turn to the Christians more and more. This is huge; Max Blumenthal reports on Huckabee’s speech to Knesset. He spoke “very Zionistically,” an Israeli rightwinger said happily. And what does this signal? Egypt will liberate the U.S. It will have […]

Laura Rozen: Abrams skips WH Egypt chat. “I had other commitments I did not think I could fairly cancel at such short notice,” he tells me. Hubristic? Maybe. But the fall goeth before the pride.

From CNN, thanks to Bruce Wolman:

Video of protesters in Tahrir Square, January 30, 2011 (Video: Justimage) Its lonely and I am thinking (and dreaming) in 140 characters or less. The only people I have spoken to in the last few days are friends in Egypt, friends from Egypt in the US, my boyfriend and a few reporters. Un-showered for three days […]

And you’re worried about Islamists? Robert Kagan and Elliott Abrams have been invited to the White House, per Laura Rozen, to talk about Egypt. Looks like other participants are likely to be Dennis Ross and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East democracy issues Tamara Wittes. She’s sort of a mellow Zionist. If you […]