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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...
ANATOMY OF EGYPT'S REVOLUTION
ANATOMY OF EGYPT'S REVOLUTIONBy ESAM AL-AMIN“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”-- Che GuevaraLike perfect storms, several factors have to simultaneously and collectively come together for popular uprisings or protests, even massive ones, to turn into a revolution. That is why only a few of them have been successful in world history. A revolution is, by definition, a successful struggle embraced by the masses that radically alters the existing political, economic, and social order. The triumphs...
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