Monday, February 27, 2012

News from Morocco

Joerg from Germany sent me this:  "it was not only that Al Jazeera did not air the documentary about the February 20th movement. Secretary Clinton cancelled a meeting with opposition groups and met the former foreign minister Fassi Fihri (from Istiqlal) before she met his successor Othmani (from PJD).

http://www.demainonline.com/2012/02/25/hillary-clinton-annule-sa-reunion-avec-les-responsables-de-la-societe-civile-marocaine/
http://www.demainonline.com/2012/02/26/taib-fassi-fihri-recoit-clinton-avant-el-otmani-et-le-fait-savoi/

Here is something funny:
http://www.demainonline.com/2012/02/26/le-mineur-qui-a-traite-mohamed-vi-de-voleur-dit-quil-etait-drogue/

(but of course it is not funny in a Moroccan prison...)

And here is a film about February 20, in English:
http://www.larbi.org/post/2012/02/My-Makhzen-Me-%2C-by-Nadir-Bouhmouch