THE EGYPTIAN REVOLT IS COMING HOMEJohn PilgerWestern leaders should be quaking in their boots.The uprising in Egypt is our theatre of the possible. It is what people across the world have struggled for and their thought controllers have feared. Western commentators invariably misuse "we" and "us" to speak on behalf of those with power who see the rest of humanity as useful or expendable. The "we" and "us" are universal now. Tunisia came first, but the spectacle always promised to be Egyptian.As a reporter, I have felt this over the years. At Tahrir...
Friday, 11 March 2011
BEHIND THE ARAB REVOLT LURKS A WORD WE DARE NOT SPEAK
BEHIND THE ARAB REVOLT LURKS A WORD WE DARE NOT SPEAKJohn PilgerThe people of Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and Libya are rising up not only against their leaders, but also western economic tyranny.Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the president's daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex of the "national security" monolith that is American power and had retired with presidential plaudits. On the eve of the invasion, he and 45 other...
THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION FISSURES IN THE ARAB REVOLTS
THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONFISSURES IN THE ARAB REVOLTSBy VIJAY PRASHADMarch 11 - 13, 2011There will be blood. No revolution comes in a straight line. Counter-revolution runs its steady course from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia through Egypt and into Libya. In Qatif, the Saudi National Guard opened fire on a protest, a phenomenon which has become commonplace in Bahrain. Inside Egypt, rumors fly that it is the security services that orchestrated the attacks on Copts and women (at a march on the 100th anniversary of international women's day). Libya is in...
THE NEW ARAB AWAKENING "NEITHER WITH THE WEST, NOR AGAINST IT"
"NEITHER WITH THE WEST, NOR AGAINST IT"THE NEW ARAB AWAKENINGBy ALAIN GRESHMarch 11 - 13, 2011A large Muslim country is overwhelmed by strikes and demonstrations. This pillar of US regional policy is damaged by authoritarian rule and its resources are looted by the president’s family; there is social and economic crisis; Washington abandons an old ally and the US Secretary of State calls on a dictator to stand down and allow for democratic transition.This may sound like Egypt in 2011. In fact, it was Indonesia in May 1998, and the call for President...
THE RISE OF THE ARABS A NEOCONSERVATIVE "SHOCK AND AWE"
A NEOCONSERVATIVE "SHOCK AND AWE"THE RISE OF THE ARABSBy RAMZY BAROUDMarch 11 - 13, 2011A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a political or economic sense– it is, in fact, shifting the very self-definition of what it means to be Arab, both individually and collectively.Hollywood has long caricatured and humiliated Arabs. American foreign policy in the Middle East has been aided by simplistic, degrading and at times racist depictions of Arabs...
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