World-News

At least one civilian has been killed and several others wounded in a helicopter gunship attack by the US-led foreign forces in troubled western Afghanistan.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162931.html



US-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians:

US-led forces have killed four civilians, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan when they bombed their house in the war-ravaged country, a top government official says.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/163867.html



'Men Killed by US Diplomat Were Intelligence Operatives':

The men shot and killed by US official Raymond Davis in Lahore on January 27 "belonged to the security establishment" and "found the activities of the American official detrimental to our national security", an unnamed security official told The Express Tribune newspaper.

http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?711172



Widow of man 'killed' by US envoy commits suicide

The widow of one of the Pakistani men allegedly shot and killed by an American official in Lahore has committed suicide in an attempt to secure justice.

http://ind.pn/h7F7g6



What was Raymond Davis Shooting for in Lahore?

By Dave Lindorff

The mystery surrounding Raymond A. Davis, the American former Special Forces operative jailed in Lahore, Pakistan for the murder of two young motorcyclists, and his funky "security" company, Hyperion-Protective Consultants LLC, in the US continues to grow.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27441.htm



Video reveals US diplomat's Pakistan police encounter

Mobile phone clip of Raymond Davis, who shot dead two men in Lahore, deepens mystery about his US embassy role.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/10/us-diplomat-video-footage-pakistan



US man Raymond Davis shot Pakistan pair 'in cold blood'

Lahore city police chief Aslam Tareen told a news conference that one of the men was killed while running away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12427518



US tells Pakistan to release Davis or its envoy would be kicked out: Report

The US has threatened Pakistan that its envoy will be "kicked out" if it fails to release the American official arrested for gunning down two men in Lahore by Friday, according to a media report.

http://bit.ly/icWc0q


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Back to Full Employment

Robert Pollin, Boston Review: "Employment conditions in the United States today, in the aftermath of the 2008-09 Wall Street collapse and worldwide Great Recession, remain disastrous - worse than at any time since the Depression of the 1930s. Since Barack Obama entered office in January 2009, the official unemployment rate has averaged more than 9.5 percent, representing some fifteen million people in a labor force of about 154 million. By a broader definition, including people employed for fewer hours than they would like and those discouraged from looking for work, the unemployment rate has been far higher - 16.5 percent, on average."

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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-3

Tunisia's Spark and Egypt's Flame: The Middle East Is Rising
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/01-4

Digital Darkness: U.S., U.K. Companies Help Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommunications and Identify Dissident Voices
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/01-2

Inequality Drives Egyptians to Streets, But Ours Worse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/01

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A New Arab Street in Post-Islamist Times

Asef Bayat, Foreign Policy: "The popular uprising in Tunisia has surprised many - Western observers, the Arab elites, and even those who have generated this remarkable episode. The surprise seems justified. How could one imagine that a campaign of ordinary Tunisians in just over one month would topple a dictator who presided over a police state for 23 years? This is a region where the life expectancy of 'presidencies' match only the 'eternal' rule of its sheiks, kings, and Ayatollahs who bank on oil and political rent (western protection) to hang on to their power and subjugate their people."

http://www.truth-out.org/a-new-arab-street-post-islamist-times67356

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Egypt: Battle of the narratives

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/02/11

The Egyptian events seem, on the face of it, fairly straightforward: a tyrant in office for 30 years, propped up by fulsome US support and a very efficient secret police apparatus, faces a full-scale revolution by his brutalized subjects, who are -- finally! -- enraged-beyond-endurance and just can?t take it anymore. A million people in the streets of Cairo are telling us this story, and one would think the wise thing to do would be to take their word for it. But that?s hardly sufficient for some US commentators, who have their own agendas -- and their own narratives to sell...

http://tinyurl.com/45hkpej



Why not freedom of all persons everywhere now?

LewRockwell.Com
by Michael S. Rozeff

02/02/11

Why don?t Egyptians seize the moment and create freedom for themselves -- their Persons -- now? By freedom for Persons, I don?t mean democracy or a so-called free society or a society under some government, be it democratic or democratic-socialist or theocratic or autocratic or whatever. I don?t mean elections, coalitions, parties, votes, leaders, taxes, and so on. I mean freedom of each and every person. And I do not mean to single out Egyptians. I raise the same question for Americans...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff341.html



Stop trying to balance liberty with security

Spiked
by Tim Black

02/01/11

Exaggerated fear of terrorism should not be allowed to water down our most fundamental freedoms...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10126/



American hypocrisy in the Middle East

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

02/01/11

The hypocrisy of the US government is yet again demonstrated in full bore force. The US government invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, laid waste to much of the countries including entire villages and towns, and massacred untold numbers of civilians in order 'to bring democracy' to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now after days of Egyptians in the streets demanding 'Mubarak must go,' the US government remains aligned with its puppet Egyptian ruler, even suggesting that Mubarak, after running a police state for three decades, is the appropriate person to implement democracy in Egypt...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts02012011.html



The revolutionary moment

The Nation
by Jonathan Schell

02/01/11

If the world has a heart, it beats now for Egypt. Not of course, the Egypt of President Hosni Mubarak -- of the rigged elections, the censored press, the axed Internet, the black-clad security police and the tanks and the torture chambers -- but the Egypt of the intrepid ordinary citizens who, almost entirely unarmed, with little more than their physical presence in the streets and their prayers, are defying this whole apparatus of intimidation and violence in the name of justice and freedom...

http://www.thenation.com/article/158193/revolutionary-moment



Egypt, revolution, and future of USA

Freedom's Phoenix Freedom's Phoenix
by Spartacus Americanus

01/30/11

2011 Will be the first 'summer of hell' in a growing series. The economic harpies of the U.S. and much of the world economy have not been slain. To the contrary the political leaders have only fed them, expanded their numbers, and pretend they don't exist. The U.S. is not immune to the same events transpiring overseas. In the end it will suffer economic consequences as it has never experienced before -- worse than the 1970s stagflation or the great depression...

http://tinyurl.com/5terlzm



Revolution in Egypt and hypocrisy in the US

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

01/31/11

For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just as the authorities in these countries are struggling ? and failing ? to cope with popular uprisings, so too the United States and other Western countries are rudderless when faced with an undefined enemy ? and make no mistake about it, the people of foreign countries are the enemy when their revolts against dictatorship threaten Western interests...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101p.asp



What to do with Egypt

The Partial Observer
by James Leroy Wilson

02/01/11

Does the U.S. have an interest in taking sides between a brutal but secular and pro-U.S. dictatorship, and a potential Islamic democracy? Choosing the first may be short-sighted; choosing the second, based on an idealistic faith in Democracy, could be equally bad. The only option is to pull out of Egypt altogether...

http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3574


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tunisia, Egypt, the Fed: Overthrowing the Despots
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2011/02/02/185-tunisia-egypt-the-fed-overthrowing-the-despots/

When the Insiders Lose Control
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north940.html

10 Things We Can Learn From Egypt About Preparing for Economic and Societal Collapse
http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo27.1.html

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The Triviality of US Mideast Policy

By Robert Grenier

The failure of the US to uphold its stated commitment to democratic values goes beyond a simple surface hypocrisy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27393.htm



Tunisia and Egypt: Why Now?

By Lawrence Davidson

For a very long time now the U.S. has put its money on the dictators. Washington has bought both them and their armies so as to have the leverage to economically exploit their countries and dictate their foreign policies. We officially call this arrangement "stability."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27395.htm



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