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Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Four key demands have been constantly lifted up by protesters and opposition parties, which are essential for a credible transition to democracy: ending the arbitrary detention and harassment of journalists, human rights activists and peaceful demonstrators and freeing those who have been detained; ending the state of emergency; allowing free electoral competition in elections; and restoring full judicial supervision of elections.... Without these reforms, any 'orderly transition' in Egypt is likely to be a transition not to democracy, but a transition to dictatorship under a different face."

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-protesters-verge-victory-watch-demands67647



The Revolt in Egypt Is Coming Home

John Pilger, Truthout: "The uprising in Egypt is our theater of the possible. It is what people across the world have struggled for and their thought controllers have feared. Western commentators invariably misuse the words '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."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-revolt-egypt-is-coming-home67624



Egypt Demonstrates for Democracy; Americans Contemplate PATRIOT Act Extension

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "In spite of our own interests, Americans and the US government are supplying the boots that rest on the necks of citizens of Egypt and dictatorships around the world. Meanwhile, we remain silent as the impending reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act threatens to speed the momentum of repression in our own country."

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-demonstrates-democracy-americans-contemplate-patriot-act-extension67635

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The Middle East Does Not Need Stability

By Gideon Levy

This so-called stability encompasses millions of Arabs living under criminal regimes and evil tyrannies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27445.htm



Who's Next? Contagious Revolution Sweeping in Arab World

Video By Press TV

Developments in the Arab world, the Egyptian revolution, a decade of Algerian strife and civil war, the growing trends towards Islamophobia in the West and many other issues are reviewed in this edition of Rattansi & Ridley.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27449.htm



US Cables: FBI Trained Egypt's State Security 'Torturers'

By Daniel Tencer

Egypt's secret police, long accused of torturing suspects and intimidating political opponents of President Hosni Mubarak, received training at the FBI's facility in Quantico, Virginia, even as US diplomats compiled allegations of brutality against them, according to US State Department cables.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27447.htm

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Mubarak?s Norma Desmond moment

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/11/11

We are at what the smart alecks of the world call a plastic moment, a strategic conjuncture, a critical turning point. Because no one?s in charge. The Egyptian people could rise up, as one, tomorrow, in their multi-millions, and crush Mubarak and Mubarakism into dust, if they chose. This is the great fear that all rulers, no matter how popular at the moment, have nightmares about, a terror that pervades and motivates their every action while in office: a sudden and massive uprising...

http://tinyurl.com/6zcmaaa



The perils of intervention

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

02/10/11

Americans have become accustomed to presidents and secretaries of state pontificating on the condition of the world and advising other governments and peoples what they should be doing. But one rather suspects that George Washington, John Adams, or Thomas Jefferson would be shocked to see our Federal government passing judgment on the doings of foreigners and doing so in a hectoring and imperious fashion that seems to suggest that Washington enjoys some exceptional quality that permits it to hand out advice...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1325



When pro-US tyrants topple

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

02/08/11

Mubarak's fate today may indeed only reinforce the lesson of history. Washington has almost always been embarrassed ? or worse ? by its long-time support of authoritarian rulers. Though there are times when Washington may need to make common cause with unsavory regimes to protect crucial U.S. interests ? those occasions should be the exception rather than the rule...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12768


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