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Why Washington Never Understood Egypt’s Revolution
By GRAHAM USHER CounterPunch Barack Obama praised the Egyptian revolution with his usual eloquence. “Egyptians have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day,” he said. “It was the moral force of nonviolence — not terrorism, not mindless killing — that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.”…
From Cairo to Madison: Hope and Solidarity are Alive
By MEDEA BENJAMIN Reader Supported News | CommonDreams Here in Madison, Wisconsin, where protesters have occupied the State Capitol Building to stop the pending bill that would eliminate workers’ right to collective bargaining, echoes of Cairo are everywhere. Protesters here were elated by the photo of an Egyptian engineer named Muhammad Saladin Nusair holding a…
Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest
By AMY GOODMAN Reader Supported News | Truthdig As many as 80,000 people marched to the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Saturday as part of an ongoing protest against newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to not just badger the state’s public employee unions, but to break them. The Madison uprising follows on…
Luis V. Teodoro | Imagine
Imagine a world without US intervention, violence, manipulation, and bullying. What’s happening in the Middle East is sending across the planet precisely the message that a world other than this is what people want, thereby agitating US policymakers, who have never imagined such a world possible. By LUIS V. TEODORO / bulatlat.com
Letter to the Editor: Contingency Plans
Letter to the Editor Bulatlat.com 16 February 2011 Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) was the first to raise serious concern on the safety of our fellow OFWs working and living in Egypt when the peace and order situation there had worsen due to massive streets protest by the Egyptian people demanding the ouster of Egyptian president Husni…
Egypt’s Youth Will Not Be Silenced
By AMY GOODMAN Reader Supported News | Truthdig Posted by Bulatlat.com “In memoriam, Christoph Probst, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl” reads the banner at the top of Kareem Amer’s popular Egyptian dissident blog. “Beheaded on Feb. 22, 1943, for daring to say no to Hitler, and yes to freedom and justice for all.” The young blogger’s…
Egypt’s Long Road Ahead
By EUGENE ROBINSON Truthdig Posted by Bulatlat.com Hosni Mubarak’s iron rule crumbles but will not go gently. He still believes himself president of Egypt, although Egypt does not. The revolutionaries of Tahrir Square still have work to do to dislodge him—and then to dismantle the system of coercion, cronyism and corruption that sustained the dictator’s…
Satur C. Ocampo | A Popular Uprising Rages in Egypt
By SATUR C. OCAMPO At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Posted by Bulatlat.com The people’s uprising in Egypt seeking to oust President Hosni Mubarak provides interesting insights and aspects that I wish to share as concisely as our limited space allows. First, the uprising (the protesters call it a “revolution”) could be the tipping…
Why Egypt 2011 is Not Iran 1979
By PROF. JUAN COLE Informed Content | Reader Supported News Posted by Bulatlat.com Alarms have been raised by those observing the popular uprising in Egypt that, while it is not itself a Muslim fundamentalist movement, the Muslim fundamentalists could take it over as it unfolds. The best-positioned group to do so is the Muslim Brotherhood.…
The Arab World Shakes: Is the US on Solid Ground?
By JAMES R. KING CounterPunch Posted by Bulatlat.com The dramatic scenes from Tunis, Sana’a and especially Cairo continue to exhilarate observers across the globe. These images of men, women and children braving riot police, tear gas and decades of authoritarianism to seize their economic, social and political futures point to what seemed impossible a mere…