From blogger to election candidate, Egypt’s youth play politics
Mahmoud Salem, who goes by the nickname Sandmonkey, is one of the Egyptian bloggers who became well known worldwide during the uprising earlier this year when internet activists were widely praised for raising global awareness of the region’s events. Like Salem, many young activists are trying to make a name for themselves outside of social networks and on the political field as candidates in Egypt’s legislative elections. Duration: 01:30.
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry stumbled over the U.S. voting age and the date of Election Day while speaking at a college in New Hampshire. Terrell Brown reports.
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www.DemocracyNow.org – Political blogger Glenn Greenwald recently wrote about retired General Wesley Clark’s recollection of an officer telling him in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks that the then U.S. Secretary of Defense had issued a memo outlining a plan for regime change within five years in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. Democracy Now! broadcasts an excerpt of Clark’s comments and ask Greenwald to respond. “What struck me in listening to that video … is that if you go down that list of seven countries that he said the neocons had planned to basically change the governments of, you pretty much see that that vision, despite the perception that we have a Democratic president and therefore the neo-conservative movement is powerless, is pretty much being fulfilled,” Greenwald says.
Despite expectations that violence would mar Egypt’s first election since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the vote was instead marked by high turnout and few violations.
The Senate’s bill was more stringent than the House’s.