ALL-AMERICAN DECLINE IN A NEW WORLDWARS, VAMPIRES, BURNED CHILDREN, AND INDELICATE IMBALANCES By Tom EngelhardtThis is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91. For those with longer memories, perhaps 1968 might come to mind, that abortive moment when, in the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and elsewhere, including Eastern Europe, masses of people mysteriously inspired by each other...
Thursday, 3 March 2011
CAIRO IN WISCONSIN
CAIRO IN WISCONSIN EATING EGYPTIAN PIZZA IN DOWNTOWN MADISON By Andy KrollThe call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. And in they came, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, from Morocco, Haiti, Turkey, Belgium, Uganda, China, New Zealand, and even a research station in Antarctica. More than 50 countries...
THE SPIRIT OF EGYPT IN MADISON
THE SPIRIT OF EGYPT IN MADISONAndy Kroll Right now, at the invaluable Antiwar.com website -- overflowing with blazing headlines -- you can see two worlds of trouble awkwardly intertwined. The first is a Middle East newly afire, one in which Muammar Qaddafi’s rotting, mad regime is shrinking to the size of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, while the rest of the region continues to light up with protest. In Iraq, tens of thousands of demonstrators ignored government warnings and curfews to attend a nationwide “day of rage” for a better life, “storming...
OILQUAKE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The Fall of the Old Oil OrderOILQUAKE IN THE MIDDLE EASTBy MICHAEL T. KLAREWhatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently transformed. Consider everything that's now happening as just the first tremor of an oilquake that will shake our world to its core. For a century stretching back to the discovery of oil in southwestern Persia before World War I, Western powers have repeatedly intervened in the Middle East to ensure the survival of authoritarian...
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