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Jeff Cohen, Truthout: "For decades beginning during the Cold War, US policy in the Islamic world has been aimed at suppressing secular reformist and leftist movements. Beginning with the CIA-engineered coup against a secular democratic reform government in Iran in 1953 (it was about oil), Washington has propped up dictators, coaching these regimes in the black arts of torture and mayhem against secular liberals and the left.... One of the mantras on US television news all day Friday was: Be fearful of the democratic uprisings against US allies in Egypt (and Tunisia and elsewhere). After all, we were told by Fox News and CNN and Chris Matthews on MSNBC, it could end up as bad as when 'our ally' in Iran was overthrown and the extremists came to power in 1979."

http://www.truth-out.org/jeff-cohen-fear-extreme-islamists-arab-world-blame-washington67267

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Egypt Protests Show American Foreign-Policy Folly

By Stephen Kinzer
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27375.htm



Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

By Washington's Blog

So why are Egyptians rioting, while the Americans are complacent?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27373.htm



Egypt protests live updates

After the fourth and most deadly day of protest against Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, the Egyptian president is set to appoint a new government today. Follow all the latest developments and reaction here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/29/egypt-protests-government-live-blog



Al Jazeera: Live blog 29/1 - Egypt protests

Minute to minute reports from Egypt.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/29/live-blog-291-egypt-protests



BBC Live updates: Egypt unrest day five

Live coverage of the fifth day of anti-government protests in Egypt, as hundreds of demonstrators return to the streets of central Cairo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/9380534.stm


From Information Clearing House



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