How Banks and Investors are Starving The Third World
By Ellen Brown
In poorer countries, as much as 60 to 80 percent of people's incomes go for food, compared to just 10 to 20 percent in industrial countries. An increase of a dollar or so in the cost of a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread for Americans can mean starvation for people in Egypt and other poor countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27422.htm
Egypt's military-industrial complex
The cozy relationship between the lobbyists, members of the US Congress, Pentagon officials and the Egyptian government is easily explained: much is at stake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/egypt-arms-trade
From Information Clearing House
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Uprising in Egypt: A Two-Hour Special on the Revolt Against the U.S.-Backed Mubarak Regime
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/05
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Hosni Mubarak and American foreign policy
Breaking All The Rules Breaking All the Rules
by SARTRE
02/07/11
The sands of time sweep once again over the Egyptian kingdom. Hosni Mubarak is just one more in a long line of autocrats. A Pharaoh he is not. A tin horn dictator, beholding to the regal Yankee, is a more apt description. It is difficult to embrace or have sympathy for a regime that traded rendition torture for a steady flow of military and foreign aid. Mubarak, like all favored despots, has no qualms of conscience when it comes to following orders, from a higher imposing force. Now he is paying the price of being a collaborator of the American Empire...
http://batr.org/gulag/020611.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mubarak
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=autocrats
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=despot
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=starvation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pratap+Chatterjee
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In poorer countries, as much as 60 to 80 percent of people's incomes go for food, compared to just 10 to 20 percent in industrial countries. An increase of a dollar or so in the cost of a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread for Americans can mean starvation for people in Egypt and other poor countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27422.htm
Egypt's military-industrial complex
The cozy relationship between the lobbyists, members of the US Congress, Pentagon officials and the Egyptian government is easily explained: much is at stake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/egypt-arms-trade
From Information Clearing House
--------
Uprising in Egypt: A Two-Hour Special on the Revolt Against the U.S.-Backed Mubarak Regime
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/05
--------
Hosni Mubarak and American foreign policy
Breaking All The Rules Breaking All the Rules
by SARTRE
02/07/11
The sands of time sweep once again over the Egyptian kingdom. Hosni Mubarak is just one more in a long line of autocrats. A Pharaoh he is not. A tin horn dictator, beholding to the regal Yankee, is a more apt description. It is difficult to embrace or have sympathy for a regime that traded rendition torture for a steady flow of military and foreign aid. Mubarak, like all favored despots, has no qualms of conscience when it comes to following orders, from a higher imposing force. Now he is paying the price of being a collaborator of the American Empire...
http://batr.org/gulag/020611.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mubarak
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=autocrats
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=despot
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=food+prices
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Big+Banks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=lobbyists
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=starvation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rendition
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pratap+Chatterjee
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Starmail - 8. Feb, 08:26
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