How honourable it must be today to be able to walk like an Egyptian! The people of Egypt just gave the world a lesson in how to make a government listen! Not just any government, but a torturous tyrant that had the backing of the US military industrial complex who's bosses are the international bankers and their corporate fascist brothers. This should show us all what can happen when a people can gather together in great numbers and peacefully shut down a whole country.
It wasn't just freedom and democracy on the minds of Egyptians. It was a desire for dignity in life. A desire for affordable food and energy. A desire for spiritual and cultural fulfillment. A desire for free speech without the fear of torture. How hypocritical of governments like our own Canadian government and the American government to claim that they hope that a smooth, peaceful transition towards democracy takes place in Egypt. Think back to the G20 protests in Toronto and Pittsburgh. Police today in Canada and the USA are being militarized and trained to crack skulls at any sight of dissidence.
I'm sure leaders like Stephen Harper and Barack Obama are in mourning over the stepping down of their brother Mubarak. But truly freedom loving people world wide celebrate! This is not only a ray of hope for a global population on the verge of finding themselves enslaved by their banker-corporate fascist tyrants who want to play God. This should also stand as a warning to these same sociopaths, that the success of Egypt, is indeed, contageous!
Congratulations Egypt, and thanks for the lesson!
Stumble It!
What has happened in Egypt is truly inspiring and congratulations are in order. But(and I hate to rain on anybodies parade)the truly difficult part is about to begin. You can be sure the "corporate fascist tyrants" are not going to sit back and not try to influence Egypt's future. Like Latin America any move to true democracy is going to be thwarted. America's definition of "democracy" both for itself and countries abroad is sadly corrupted. What America fears most is a country of independent spirit that it cannot control and that might inspire other countries to likewise throw off the shackles of US imperialism.
Congratulations for keeping Vive "on mission". Ruston's argument was going down a generic class warfare road but you brought the discussion back in line with Vive's raison d'ętre - knee-jerk anti-Americanism. Susan, Mel Hurtig and Gasbag Mathews would be proud.
Are we "anti Canadian" when we question the actions of Canadian politicians ?
Ed Deak.
Neither $553 billion nor $80.1 billion can buy Washington a brain. Right now, by all evidence, our leaders are still convinced that it's their job to run the world and fight distant wars until hell freezes over. They can't bear to think a new thought, or take a chance, or experiment on anything, or look at our planet in a new way. At the moment, the evidence indicates that they have the brainpower of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz without that character's urge for self-improvement, and it?s taking us down.
Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His latest book is The American Way of War: How Bush?s Wars Became Obama?s (Haymarket Books). You can catch him discussing war American-style and that book in a Timothy MacBain TomCast video by clicking here.