World-News

John Pilger, Truthout: 'The revolt in the Arab world is not merely against a resident dictator, but against a worldwide economic tyranny designed by the US Treasury and imposed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which have ensured that rich countries like Egypt are reduced to vast sweatshops, with half the population earning less than $2 a day. The people's triumph in Cairo was the first blow against what Benito Mussolini called corporatism, a word that appears in his definition of fascism.'

http://www.truth-out.org/behind-arab-revolt-a-word-we-dare-not-speak68036



The Constitution: Egypt's Job One

William Fisher, Truthout: 'Eleven days before he finally resigned, Hosni Mubarak may have had a chance to reverse his fortunes. Suddenly filled with a spirit of peacemaking and reconciliation, the president offered up a smorgasbord of 'reforms' he promised to make. Among them was amending several articles of the Egyptian Constitution. Calls for these amendments had been going on for years. So central were they to the political well-being of the Egyptian people that foreign powers - principally the United States - had intervened, privately and publicly, to persuade its most dependable Middle East ally to actually get something done.'

http://www.truth-out.org/the-constitution-egypts-job-one67981

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The Year of Revolution: The 'War on Tyranny' Replaces the 'War on Terror'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/24

The Tunisia Effect
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/24-0

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For the love of liberty

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Lew Rockwell

02/24/11

When the Egyptian protests first broke out, most Americans celebrated. Though Mubarak's military must still be circumvented or overthrown, the revolt has spread, like a cleansing fire, to Bahrain, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Jordan, and beyond. What is all this all about?

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1341


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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