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Egyptian writer and lecturer Mona Eltahawy published an article on the current Egyptian revolution entitled “All Egyptians are being liberated from the burden of history”” (The Age, Melbourne, On-line National Times section, 31 January 2011: ), her key passage being: “But here now finally are our children - Generation Facebook - kicking aside the burden of history, determined to show us just how easy it is to tell the dictator it’s time to go. To understand the importance of what’s going in (…)

EDITORIAL SAYS EGYPT’S MUBARAK DOESN’T GET IT - BUT WHOSE CREATURE IS MUBARAK ? - THE UNITED STATES’ AND ISRAEL’S DARK ROLES IN EGYPT
POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL
Please, just whose creature is Mubarak?
For thirty years he has been protected, generously supplied with aid and arms, and literally paid by the United States.
He is only one of many such people in the world’s oppressive governments who has spent much of his adult life on the CIA’s payroll. (…)

OBAMA’S SADLY EMPTY WORDS ABOUT AMERICA - IT’S TIME FOR AMERICA TO SHUT-UP AND ROLL-UP ITS SLEEVES - BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
Competitiveness and innovation are never affected by government exhortations, nor indeed are they affected by any other exhortations, including those of business schools or “inspirational” speakers.
They come from the underlying real economic and financial conditions of a country and of the world in which it functions.
One can only look at the United States’ (…)

On Saturday, January 29, 2011, at noon, an “emergency demonstration” was staged in front of the Egyptian Embassy, in Washington, D.C. It was organized by the ANSWER Coalition and a host of other activist groups in the area. According to the ANSWER Coalition’s press release, the purpose of the rally was to “show solidarity with the Egyptian people” in their struggle to overthrow the “dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak,” who has received for decades “$2 billion a year” in U.S. aid to prop up his (…)

The ’most notorious family member’ of the former Tunisian dictatorship Belhassen Trabelsi is hiding with his family, likely somewhere near Montreal. Members of Canada’s Tunisian community are ’very mad’ at the Stephen Harper Government’s handling of the Ben Ali file, claiming that Ottawa is shielding the fugitives and has been slow to freeze illegal, stolen assets of the fugitive billionaire.
"We expect the government not to let these people flee Canada," said Haroun Bouazzi, who’s part (…)

Professor Tim Flannery is a leading Australian environmentalist but raised the ire of many other environmentalists by supporting the empirically ineffective and hence counterproductive Carbon Trading-based Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) approach to putting a price on carbon pollution. He has now rejected the sensible approach of the vegetarians by stating that “I believe that in a world facing a food shortage and a climate crisis, livestock represent a potent weapon in the fight to (…)

by Gordon Duff
TWO HEADS OF THE SAME COIN, “ELVIS BIN LADEN” AND “WIKI-ISRAEL”
In 1977 Elvis Presley, “King of Rock and Roll”, died. Since his death, sightings of Elvis around the world have numbered in the tens of thousands. In 2001 Osama bin Laden, CIA asset and critic of Israel’s policies in Palestine, died. Since his death several video tapes and a string of audio recordings have been attributed to him.
In a sense, bin Laden has become “Elvis bin Laden,” the “King of Terrorism”. (…)

The Year America Dissolved
Paul Craig Roberts Prison Planet
It was 2017. Clans were governing America.
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the (…)

Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda: The Anglo-American Terror Network The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda, Part II
by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 8, 2010
The End of the Cold War and Strategy for the New World Order With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a (…)