links for 2009-08-19

• New strike wave shaking Egypt|22Aug09|Socialist Worker
  (tags: union egypt strikes politics activism labor privatization)
• As Egypt's Mubarak Comes to Washington, Labor Unrest Surges at Home – TIME
  (tags: labor egypt activism strikes)
• EGYPT: Union Eyes the Silver Bullet – IPS ipsnews.net
  silver bullet being free trade unions
  (tags: egypt politics union activism strikes labor)
• Global Voices Online » Egypt: Gamal Mubarak … Why Not?
  (tags: egypt politics gamalmubarak mubarak music)
• Wobbling Earth Triggers Climate Change: Discovery Channel
  Study claims that ice-age cycles are related to obliquity (tilt) of Earth which cycles every 41k years. And that this should be used to calibrate climate change models.
  (tags: climate-change)
• BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mubarak makes White House return
  (tags: egypt mubarak united-states HillaryClinton politics obama MiddleEast)
• SHE2I2: Tanta Flax Company Strike Enters its 80th Day
  (tags: labor egypt union privatization)
• Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة: Who Should Rule Egypt?
  "By resolutely refusing to appoint a vice president and then choreographing his son’s political rise, Mubarak unwittingly opened up the question of what (and who) are the most legitimate sources of political authority. [..] This public discussion that’s been happening in Egypt for years now gets to a much more fundamental question: what kind of political game should we have in the first place?
  [..]
  This doesn’t mean that Egypt’s citizens are on the cusp of choosing who rules them. [..] It does mean that no system of rule is natural nor inevitable anymore, least of all Nasser’s model of officers running the show. Now everything is up for debate, every model of rule is subject to scrutiny, none get a free pass as the “most appropriate for Egypt,” “the most likely,” or whatever. Ironic, isn’t it? It’s the change-hating Mubarak who has ended up shattering the settled conventions for how Egypt is ruled, opening the door to the imagination of alternatives.
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  (tags: egypt politics mubarak gamalmubarak military history)
• Cairo’s tuktuks under threat – The National Newspaper
  TUK TUK
  (tags: cairo egypt transport auto)

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