ASPIRATIONS FOR INDEPENDENCEINTIFADA BEYOND PALESTINEBy ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEHRemember the neoconservatives’ plan of “domino effect” following the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq? It was supposed to be followed by the toppling of other “unfriendly” heads of “rogue states” such as those ruling Iran and Syria who do not cater to the US-Israeli interests in the Middle East. It was not meant to threaten the “friendly” regimes that rule Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain and their cohorts that have...
Friday, 25 February 2011
WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE MAD COLONELBy Eugene RobinsonPresident Obama pledged that “the entire world is watching” the horror in Libya, but watching isn’t nearly enough. There is much more that world leaders—beginning with Obama—urgently must say and do.The world’s censure means nothing to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the dictator who vows to die rather than surrender the power he has held for four decades. At this point, the long-running debate about whether Gadhafi is mostly diabolical or mostly deranged is irrelevant. Despite his incoherent ramblings, he...
OIL, ARMS AND THE IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE IN NORTH AFRICA
OIL, ARMS AND THE IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE IN NORTH AFRICAOIL, ARMS AND THE IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE IN NORTH AFRICAThe Business of Business in LibyaBy TARECQ AMERAnother North African country is in the throes of revolution, causing yet more confusion and consternation among western leaders. One can only imagine the chagrin these Europeans and U.S. American progenitors of universal morals feel as they woke up only to see another despotic investment (this time...
ANATOMY OF EGYPT'S REVOLUTION (PART THREE)
ANATOMY OF EGYPT'S REVOLUTION (PART THREE)How Democracy Could be HijackedBy Esam Al-Amin “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” --Nelson MandelaJanuary 25 was the date the Egyptian youth decided to launch their revolution. As the fear barrier was broken, Egyptians throughout the country and from all walks of life joined the protests by the millions. Their main chant for eighteen continuous days was ‘The people want the fall of the regime.’On February 11 that demand was met in a twenty second address...
Thursday, 24 February 2011
GADDAFI MAD DOG OF THE MIDDLE EAST
GADDAFI MAD DOG OF THE MIDDLE EASTRivers of blood will run through Libya … these were the chilling words of Saif Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, as anti-government demonstrations spread across the country. “We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet,” he added. They were not idle words. There is no reason to doubt the Gaddafi family means it for their hold on power has been notorious for the copious amounts of blood that...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
UPRISINGS: FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE MIDWEST
UPRISINGS: FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE MIDWESTBy Amy GoodmanPosted on Feb 22, 2011As 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 the heels of those in the Middle East. A sign held by one university student, an Iraq...
Monday, 21 February 2011
CORPORATE DICTATORS
TIME TO TOPPLE CORPORATE DICTATORSAmericans Need to Start Showing UpThe 18 day non-violent Egyptian protests for freedom raise the question: is America next? Were Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine around, they would likely say "what are we waiting for?" They would be appalled by the concentration of economic and political power in such a few hands. Remember how often these two men warned about concentrated power.Our Declaration of Independence (1776) listed grievances against King George III. A good number of them could have been made against "King"...
Friday, 18 February 2011
ROTE PLAYERS AND ROLE PLAYERS
ROTE PLAYERS AND ROLE PLAYERSBy ALEXANDER COCKBURN President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton rushed to contrast the repressive brutality of the Iranian authorities with what they now seek to present as the bloodless, US-managed triumph of pro-democracy forces in Egypt.By any measure this was brazen impudence, starting with the fact that across the past few weeks the 300 dead, slaughtered by security forces and government-hired thugs fell in Tahrir Square and the streets of Cairo, not in Teheran, with more dead piling up in Bahrein, home of...
ANATOMY OF EGYPT'S REVOLUTION (PART TWO)
ANATOMY OF EGYPT'S REVOLUTION (PART TWO)By ESAM AL-AMIN“What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people.” -- John Adams in an 1815 letter to Thomas Jefferson Historians and political scientists study revolutions and analyze their impact, not only on their societies, where the political, economic, and social order is fundamentally transformed, but also on neighboring countries and beyond.The Egyptian revolution, though still...
POVERTY, FOOD PRICES AND THE CRISIS OF IMPERIALISM
THE REVOLUTIONARY REBELLION IN EGYPTPOVERTY, FOOD PRICES AND THE CRISIS OF IMPERIALISMBy FIDEL CASTROSeveral days ago I said that Mubarak’s fate was sealed and that not even Obama was able to save him. The world knows about what is happening in the Middle East. News spreads at mind-boggling speed. Politicians barely have enough time to read the dispatches arriving hour after hour. Everyone is aware of the importance of what is happening over there. After 18 days of tough struggle, the Egyptian people achieved an important objective: overthrowing...
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