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Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as "the president who lost Iran," - Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who "lost" Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America's alliances in the Middle East crumbled.

http://bit.ly/i3Oxt4



Chomsky: Elections Today "Public Relations Extravaganzas"

Video - Noam Chomsky Lecture University Of Tennessee

Chomsky discussed the United States' support of dictatorships in Egypt, Tunisia, Georgia, Jordan and Colombia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27381.htm

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The Mideast burns

LewRockwell.Com
by Eric Margolis

01/31/11

As I predicted in this book, and in a column last April, Egypt was headed for a major explosion. America?s Mideast Raj is now on fire. Whether it survives or not remains to be seen. One cannot escape a sense that we may be looking at a Mideast version of the 1989 uprisings across Eastern Europe that brought down its Communist regimes and then the Soviet Union. Americans should be uneasy seeing crowds of Egyptians pleading for freedom and justice watched over by US-supplied tanks.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis225.html



The crack in American exceptionalism

Liberale et Libertaire
by dL

01/29/11

A spectre is now haunting Northern Africa and the Middle East -- the spectre of the collapse of the American-aligned Arab Nation State. What started from a single act of self-immolation by a fruit stand operator in Tunisia has now metastasized into a full-blown revolutionary wave that has spread to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. Ben Ali has already exited to Saudi Arabia and Mubarak may now follow. If Mubarak goes, expect the gated cul de sac community of former dictators in Riyadh to grow. The US Political class reaction, as one would expect, has been dissonant...

http://tinyurl.com/4lnmzwo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=exceptionalism
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tunisia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lebanon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Colombia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chomsky
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/margolis
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