World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/02-3

Noam Chomsky: ?This Is The Most Remarkable Regional Uprising That I Can Remember?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/02-1

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Watch Live: Revolution in Egypt
http://www.truth-out.org/aljazeeralive67405



"The Arab World Is on Fire"

Noam Chomsky: "'The Arab world is on fire,' al-Jazeera reported on Jan. 27, while throughout the region, Western allies 'are quickly losing their influence.' The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a Western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator's brutal police. Observers compared the events to the toppling of Russian domains in 1989, but there are important differences."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-arab-world-is-fire67410



The Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World

Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment. The Associated Press reports that roughly 40 percent of Egyptians struggle along at the World Bank-set poverty level of under $2 per day. Analysts estimate that food price inflation in Egypt is currently at an unsustainable 17 percent yearly. 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.truth-out.org/the-egyptian-tinderbox-how-banks-and-investors-are-starving-third-world67424

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Egypt and US foreign policy

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Laurence M. Vance

02/02/11

Until very recently, the only things many Americans knew about Egypt were its pyramids they read about in their school history texts, its mummies they saw on display at U.S. museum exhibits or on the screen in Hollywood movies, and the Nile River they marveled at in TV documentaries...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1315



?Losing? Egypt

Foundation for Economic Education Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson

02/02/11

Egyptians have taken to the streets to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the U.S.-backed leader who came to power after the assassination of Anwar Sadat nearly 30 years ago. We can be sure that sooner or later someone will condemn Barack Obama as the president who 'lost Egypt.' Such mutterings, in my view, would border on delusion. The world is not a chessboard on which the U.S. government can move the world?s people around, expecting them to obey. And yet the illusion continues...

http://tinyurl.com/4dyh8aj



American foreign policy promotes ?our interests??
C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson

02/01/11

When I hear a reference to 'our interests,' or what ?we? are doing in Iraq or Afghanistan, my automatic response is 'Are you carrying a friend in your pocket?' The clear assumption is that there is some commonality of interest between the American people and the state that claims to represent them. But in reality, we?ve got about as many interests in common with 'our' government as the Egyptian people have in common with Hosni Mubarak...

http://c4ss.org/content/6003


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Administration Has Been Gutless and Cowardly in Dealing with the Mubarak Regime

Robert Fisk - Democracy Now! Video Interview From Cairo

"One of the blights of history will now involve a U.S. president who held out his hand to the Islamic world and then clenched his fist when it fought a dictatorship and demanded democracy."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27407.htm



The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World

By Ted Rall

Coverage by U.S. state-controlled media of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt is too dim by half: they say it's an Arab thing. So it is. But not for long.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27401.htm



IMF raises spectre of civil wars as global inequalities worsen

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that "dangerous" imbalances have emerged that threaten to derail global recovery and stoke tensions that may ultimately set off civil wars in deeply unequal countries.

http://bit.ly/gpqTpM


From Information Clearing House



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