Editor's Note: The APNS and the ANG are closely watching the situation in the Africa and Arab World and we are actively seeking first-hand reports from activists involved in the pro-Democracy protests from all regions: [Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Occupied Palestine, etc.] with access to the Internet. Please use: aboriginalnewsgroup  for Skype and GMail or you can leave a voicemail or audio report with editor.novajoservo via Google Talk. Non-Arab support protest activists are also encouraged to contribute their citizen-reports and audio commentaries for further distribution via our newswire.

In solidarity with the international democracy movement,
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Palestinian Pundit: California Professor Beaten By Pro-Mubarak Forces Minutes After Interview on Democracy Now!

"On Wednesday, University of California-Davis Professor Noha Radwan joined Democracy Now! for an interview from a studio in downtown Cairo. Just after finishing the interview, she was attacked in the streets. “I got attacked by the mob and beaten half to death by the Mubarak thugs who were happy to snatch my necklaces off my neck and to rip my shirt open,” Radwan said. We speak to her again today by telephone, asking her to describe what happened....."

McCain calls Middle East pro-democracy movements a ‘virus’ | Raw Story

Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and possibly more ... The growing pro-democracy movements in these countries are a mere "virus" to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), according to a recent interview he gave to the conservative-leaning Fox News Channel.

Speaking to Greta Van Susteren, the former presidential candidate suggested that now is the "most dangerous period in of history" regarding America's involvement in the Middle East.

Pro-Mubarak rioters chase reporters in Cairo hotels

Supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are storming hotels in Cairo and chasing journalists, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Earlier Thursday, the Egyptian military began rounding up journalists, possibly for their own protection, after they came under attack from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak who have been attacking anti-government protesters.

Egypt No Longer Safe For Journalists

Over the past day and a half, Egypt has transformed from a thrilling dream story for journalists into a place where being a journalist is seriously hazardous. First the physical attacks; now, the arrests. A quick rundown, below.

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Mubarak propaganda in the Washington Post

Look at this trash piece of propaganda in the Washington Post. The writer decided that Mubarak is popular with the Egyptian people. The writer wants us to believe that the millions who demonstrated were in fact computer-generated and were not real people. But wait: she is marshaling evidence here: "Taymour A. Hasseb, a consultant with the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram, said Mubarak does not get the credit he deserves for the good things he has brought to Egypt, including greater freedom of expression than exists in many Middle Eastern countries, such as Syria and Saudi Arabia.

NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO: Zizek on Egypt

What cannot but strike the eye in the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is the conspicuous absence of Muslim fundamentalism. In the best secular democratic tradition, people simply revolted against an oppressive regime, its corruption and poverty, and demanded freedom and economic hope. The cynical wisdom of western liberals, according to which, in Arab countries, genuine democratic sense is limited to narrow liberal elites while the vast majority can only be mobilised through religious fundamentalism or nationalism, has been proven wrong. The big question is what will happen next? Who will emerge as the political winner?

palestinefreevoice: Michel Chossudovsky: Egypt - "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey Orders

The Mubarak regime could collapse in the a face of a nationwide protest movement... What prospects for Egypt and the Arab World?

"Dictators" do not dictate, they obey orders. This is true in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

Dictators are invariably political puppets. Dictators do not decide.

President Hosni Mubarak was a faithful servant of Western economic interests and so was Ben Ali.

The national government is the object of the protest movement.

The objective is to unseat the puppet rather than the puppet-master.

Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu | Informed Comment

It should be remembered that Egypt’s elite of multi-millionaires has benefited enormously from its set of corrupt bargains with the US and Israel and from the maintenance of a martial law regime that deflects labor demands and pesky human rights critiques. It is no wonder that to defend his billions and those of his cronies, Hosni Mubarak was perfectly willing to order thousands of his security thugs into the Tahrir Square to beat up and expel the demonstrators, leaving 7 dead and over 800 wounded, 200 of them just on Thursday morning.