Das Weisse Haus behauptet steif und fest, es liege „nicht im besten Interesse Amerikas“ zu behaupten, dass in der letzten Woche in Ägypten ein Militärputsch stattgefunden hat, und dass man stattdessen fortfahren werde, Ägyptens Militär und jetzige Junta mit großen Beträgen an Hilfsmitteln zu versorgen.

Josef Foschepoth: ..Wir haben nahezu symbiotische Zustände zwischen den Geheimdiensten. Und alles mit dem Segen und Wissen der Bundesregierungen.

Süddeutsche: Wie kann eine geheime Verwaltungsvereinbarung die deutsche Verfassung ausstechen?

Josef Foschepoth: Die Verwaltungsvereinbarung erläutert ja nur, was in den Hieroglyphen anderer völkerrechtlicher Verträge enthalten ist.

Israel has secretly jailed a member of its security services for a grave offence, a prominent Israeli lawyer said on Tuesday, describing the case as riveting and sensational.

In Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany‘s bestselling 2002 novel The Yacoubian Building, an aging aristocrat declares: „It was a different age. Cairo was like Europe. It was clean and smart and the people were well mannered and respectable and everyone knew his place exactly…“

In Port Said on the Suez canal there is relief both that Mohamed Morsi has gone and that the old ways have returned

The United Arab Emirates will make a $1 billion grant to Egypt and a $2 billion loan, state news agency WAM said on Tuesday. The $2 billion loan would take the form of an interest-free deposit with Egypt‘s central bank, WAM said.

Saudi Arabia approved a $5 billion aid package to Egypt on Tuesday comprising a $2 billion central bank deposit, $2 billion in energy products, and $1 billion in cash, the Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim Alassaf told Reuters.

Laut der israelischen Botschafterin in Russland, Dorit Golender, ist ihr Land dazu bereit, die mögliche Stationierung einer russischen Friedenstruppe auf den Golanhöhen, in der Pufferzone zwischen Syrien und Israel, zu erörtern.

Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, had agreed to submit his body and fame to a form of torture. The body bit would involve being chained to a feeding chair while doctors inserted more than a metre of rubber tubing up his nose, down his throat and into his stomach. His fame would hopefully draw attention to that fact that this is happening daily to 45 hunger strikers in Guantánamo Bay.

Die Absetzung von Mohammed Mursi hatten breite Teile der Gesellschaft befürwortet – ein überraschendes Bündnis aus Liberalen, Christen, Mubarak-Anhängern, Salafisten, Al-Azhar-Gelehrten und den autoritären Militärs, geeint wohl nur vom Willen, Mursi zu stürzen. Nun bestimmen hinter den Kulissen weiter die Generäle, wo es langgeht.

Senior Brotherhood politician Essam El-Erian said the decree by interim head of state Adli Mansour was „usurping legislative power“ and an act of „someone appointed by the putschists“.

„We need to suspend aid to the new government until it does in fact schedule elections and put in place a process that comes up with a new constitution,“ said Sen. Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee.

President Obama’s spokesman said it would not be in “the best interests” of the United States right now to cut off the $1.5 billion in annual aid given to Egypt. But he made clear that over the long term………..

„We support any efforts aimed at ending any manifestations of violence and confrontation, that are aimed at stabilizing the situation,“ Lavrov said when asked about Egypt at a news conference.

Wie der Radiosender Kol Israel berichtet, wurde die Situation in Ägypten in den zurückliegenden zwei Monaten mehrmals in Telefongesprächen zwischen dem Premier Benjamin Nitanjahu und US-Außenamtschef John Kerry, zwischen den Verteidigungsministern Mosche Yaalon und Chuck Hagel sowie zwischen den nationalen Sicherheitsrateschefs Yakov Amidror und Susan Rice behandelt.

The military-backed transitional administration is keen to win Nour‘s support for a new government to show it is acceptable to Islamists after the army toppled the Brotherhood‘s Mohamed Mursi last week.

„We asked for a technocrat economist … a neutral guy,“ Bakkar told Reuters by phone.

The delegation is coming to „show full support to the people of Egypt – political support, economic support,“ Egypt‘s foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty told Reuters by telephone.

Justin River Carter was arrested on February 14 of this year in Austin, Texas and charged as a “terrorist” for a post he made on Facebook. He faces up to ten years in prison. „Rechtssprechung“ auf dem Niveau der Inquisition!

As the World Socialist Web Site has warned from the beginning, the so-called “war on terror” has nothing to do with protecting the American population from terrorism. Rather, it is a smokescreen for unbridled militarism abroad and the preparation of dictatorial forms of rule at home.

This interview was recorded in Hong Kong on 6 June 2013

In a new court filing, the Obama Administration says the secret FISA court has no obligation to publish its decisions — not even those that explain why new forms of spying are constitutional.

Here are a few examples of why.

UNICEF has sounded an alarm on the waves of people forced by war and economic hardship to flee their homes, and the pope has repeated that message forcefully, Iacomini added in a statement.

„The message of the holy father has pierced the veil of hypocrisy“.

The Italian Council for Refugees (CIR) on Monday embraced the pope‘s memorial to migrants who have died in the Mediterranean while seeking passage by boat to Italy or Europe and endorsed the pontiff‘s „very stern warning to policymakers and public opinion, condemning indifference“.

„To the dear, Muslim immigrants who today, this evening, are beginning the fast of Ramadan, with wishes for abundant spiritual fruit,“ Francis said. „The Church is close to you in the search for a more dignified life for you and your families“.

The pope‘s gesture will also echo „among immigrants and Muslims…making them feel they are human beings“ in a foreign land, he added.

Der Papst unternimmt seine erste Dienstreise an die Außengrenzen des Wohlstands und verändert damit die Wirklichkeit.