This Associated Press video montage is revealing. While Britain, America and the UN “condemn violence” and “urge restraint” in Egypt, citizens are suffering across the Muslim world due to Western-backed thugs:
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American propaganda watch
It must be seeping into the water: The American Museum of History, on the Mall in Washington, DC: One of the popular exhibitions in recent years was “The Price of Freedom: Americans at War”. This included a tribute to the “exceptional Americans [who] saved a million lives” in Vietnam, where they were “determined to stop…
Fisk on America’s lost opportunity (which they were never going to take)
Egyptians are rising up and America is looking to install a torturing autocrat in place of Mubarak? Robert Fisk on the streets of Cairo: Well, immense courage displayed by those who are demanding the overthrow, effectively, of Mubarak, oddly matched by the complete gutlessness of the U.S. administration. In fact, the cowardice of the language…
Helping Mubarak sell his torture-techniques in the West
Friends can be bought: The dramatic events in Egypt this past week have left a coterie of top Washington lobbyists quietly scurrying to respond to the unexpected developments in the nation they represent, caught off guard by the apparent end to President Hosni Mubarak’s long reign. By some estimates, Egypt spends close to $2 million…
As Mubarak’s thugs shoot into a crowd of unarmed civilians
Israel and Washington must be so proud of their boy Mubarak:
Of course Wikileaks matters, profoundly
While the New York Times releases a book about Wikileaks and editor Bill Keller feels the need to smear Julian Assange while saying how much he loves America, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger is far more nuanced in his explanation of the relationship between corporate media and Wikileaks: The challenge from WikiLeaks for media in general…
What Zionism has done to my people
Evidence for the prosecution (and there’s mountains more): Jimmy Carter has long been the target of what MJ Rosenberg calls “the Status Quo Lobby” (he’s right to deny them the “pro-Israel” label). Now an enterprising attorney has filed a class-action suit against the former president — and publisher Simon and Shuster — that can only…
Portrait of an Egyptian hero
He’s just one fine man. I met and spent time with Hossam elHamalawy in Cairo during the research for my book The Blogging Revolution. Thinking about this over the last week, I’m proud to have documented the then small but growing movement of web dissent in the US and Israeli-backed dictatorship. It was those seeds…
The neo-con corruption of Judaism
Part 7653: Mainstream media coverage, especially in the United States, has been filled with misleading tales. With help from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pro-Israel commentators, the regime has distracted many outlets with the arrant nonsense that the popular protests presage a takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brothers. The Muslim Brothers, yes, are…
Now, be a good little obedient and secular Egypt
The West wants “stability” in the Middle East. So the status-quo works just fine. But wait, how about democracy? Well, maybe, but just so long as those fundamentalist Islamists (or anybody who is a Muslim, really) doesn’t take over. Slavoj Žižek gets it in one: The hypocrisy of western liberals is breathtaking: they publicly supported…