Al Arabiya is reporting that a total of ten ministers in the government of President Morsi have now resigned. That certainly has the look of a government that is teetering, at best.

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The Egyptian military (the ultimate arbiter of the current crisis if it chooses to be) has issued statement saying it “will not be involved in the country’s politics or government” but also gives the country’s politicians 48 hours to meet the people’s demands or will introduce its own plan. Read More

Not at all sure where all this is going. But we’re going to be keeping close tabs on the evolving situation in Egypt. I was off the grid most of the weekend. So felt a little bad that the scale of the protests had caught me off guard. But then they seemed to catch Pres. Morsi’s team pretty off guard too.

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There’s a lot of fascinating material in this Times article about the gargantuan protests this weekend in Egypt. But I think the most riveting may be the way the reporters capture how caught off guard President Morsi and his advisors were by the scale of the demonstrations. They are neither clearly accommodating or fully defiant. But at least from his spokesman seem almost literally at a loss for words …. Read More

From CNN’s Ben Wedeman …

Photo: The anti-Morsi demonstrations are THE biggest I've ever seen in #Egypt. #30June pic.twitter.com/BTA0N18RVq

— benwedeman (@bencnn) June 30, 2013

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It’s looking less likely that Edward Snowden will end up in Ecuador.