tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post2090888132219437480..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: Tunis yesterday, Cairo today, London tomorrow?Neil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-58799758964305636432011-02-09T02:29:31.184+00:002011-02-09T02:29:31.184+00:00Great article. It is interesting that modern capit...Great article. It is interesting that modern capitalism revolves around a culture of youth worship, with older people spending thousands to look young, with popular culture dominated by the tastes of teenagers and twenty-somethings, yet, when it comes to providing an economic base to allow young people to have a meaningful future, complete with a proper family income, modern capitalism does not do a very good job at all. The great prosperity of neoliberalism is a mirage, a gaudy, neon Potemkin village.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-90259504290498120872011-02-08T22:16:48.738+00:002011-02-08T22:16:48.738+00:00Egypt’s Revolution: Creative Destruction for a ’Gr...Egypt’s Revolution: Creative Destruction for a ’Greater Middle East’? <br />by F. William Engdahl*<br />Controverting majority opinion, F. William Engdahl maintains there is nothing spontaneous about the mass protest movements in Arab countries and sees them as a replay of the US-orchestrated colour revolutions that triggered regime change in post-Soviet countries. The same script and cast of characters are at hand: local opposition leaders coached by the NED and other US-funded organizations in the art of staging "spontaneous" uprisings. The contours of a US covert strategy for the region have been clear for some time. The question is: will it work?<br /><br />http://www.voltairenet.org/article168381.htmlbrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17796306949045047712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-59453517836493177782011-02-08T22:12:54.192+00:002011-02-08T22:12:54.192+00:00London? No. highly unlikely...Whats more theres ev...London? No. highly unlikely...Whats more theres evidence the US in the form of Freedom House is involved in these revolts. From a US embassy cable of jan 2010:<br /><br />'¶4. (SBU) The group included bloggers, journalists, activists<br />from secular opposition parties such as El-Ghad and the<br />Democratic Front Party and movements such as "Kifaya" and<br />"April 6. A lawyer for the group confirmed that a French<br />activist was among the detainees. Some of the detainees are<br />participants in Freedom House's "New Generation" program<br />which provides training for young activists. One member of<br />the group departed for Washington January 18 to participate<br />in a Project on Middle East Democracy program. Contacts<br />confirmed that activist and El-Ghad party member Israa Abdel<br />Fattah was also part of the group. (Note: Abdel Fattah was<br />the subject of headlines in April 2008 when she was arrested<br />and detained for 17 days after her call for an April 6<br />general strike on Facebook attracted almost 70,000 members<br /><br /><br />http://213.251.145.96/cable/2010/01/10CAIRO99.htmlbrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17796306949045047712noreply@blogger.com