The Revolt in Egypt is coming home
John Pilger
"The uprising in Egypt has discredited every Western media stereotype about the Arabs. The courage, determination, eloquence, and grace of those in Liberation Square contrast with "our" specious fear-mongering with its al-Qaeda and Iran bogeys and iron-clad assumptions, bereft of irony, of the "moral leadership of the West." It is not surprising that the recent source of truth about the imperial abuse of the Middle East, WikiLeaks, is itself subjected to craven, petty abuse in those self-congratulating newspapers that set the limits of elite liberal debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps they are worried. Across the world, public awareness is rising and bypassing them.
In Washington and London, the regimes are fragile and barely democratic. Having long burned down societies abroad, they are now doing something similar at home, with lies and without a mandate.
To their victims, the resistance in Cairo’s Liberation Square must seem an inspiration. "We won’t stop," said the young Egyptian woman on TV, "we won’t go home." Try kettling a million people in the center of London, bent on civil disobedience, and try imagining it could not happen."
(, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 22:07, Share, Reply)
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No idea. Am I supposed to laugh, point and scream, or play with my invisible goatee? Just another blog?
"try imagining it could not happen."
Done. It's got pink elephants* in my mental scene, but done.
*delirium tremens
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Claws of Doom I am no longer infected, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 22:13,
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One! Two! Three! Four!
We don't want your oil war!
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 23:43,
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Five! Six! Seven! Eight!
But drive to work and can't be late.
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JamTallons, Sat 12 Feb 2011, 10:37,
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WTFAYBOA?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 22:53,
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I seem to remember being told in historyy at school
that during the period of revolutionary unrest in Europe, a big anti-monarchy type rally was arranged in one of the parks. It was taken seriously enough for the King/Queen to be shipped of to somewhere like Balmoral.
Hardly anyone turned up though, because it was a bit 'drizzly'.
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