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When the Dust Settles, US Policies Will Remain the Same

By James Zogby
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27455.htm

The New Pharaohs of Egypt and the World

By John Stubley

The people of Egypt - the place in which such Pharaoh-ism originated - are showing us that now is the time for us to rise to the tasks of today. They are reminding us that no longer do we need to sacrifice our own freedom by elevating another into the position which we ourselves should rightly occupy. The thrones are ours.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27458.htm

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Vision: Across the Country, People are Rising Up to Fight for Change

Rose Aguilar, AlterNet: "Over the years, Milwaukee Labor Press editor Dominique Paul North has covered a 'heck of a lot of protests' in Wisconsin. Last summer, a peace rally in Wisconsin?s inner city drew about 100 people calling for the U.S. to get out of Afghanistan. 'There was no media coverage,' he says. 'I was the only reporter there.' The next day, 40 people attended a tea party event in Wisconsin and every local media outlet was there to cover it? So while it was disappointing, it came as no surprise when most Wisconsin and national media outlets ignored the state?s first anti-inaugural rally on January 3. Here?s a summary of a few of the other actions you may have missed last month."

http://www.truth-out.org/vision-across-country-people-are-rising-up-fight-change67680

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Egypt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hypocrisy
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=uprising
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Huckabee
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=what+change
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Zogby
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Stubley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Rose+Aguilar

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Starmail - 12. Feb, 06:11

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Freitag, 11. Februar 2011

The Patriot Act and the bipartisan war on civil liberties

Poli-Tea
by d.eris

02/10/11

An attempt to fast-track the renewal of the most controversial portions of the Patriot Act failed in the House yesterday. The measure failed to get the procedurally necessary two-third majority. The same measure would easily pass on a simple majority vote. In the People's House, there is a sizable bipartisan majority of Democrats and Republicans who are united in opposition to core constitutional principles such as the protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and the civil rights of American citizens...

http://tinyurl.com/49g623x

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+liberties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=d.eris

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Starmail - 11. Feb, 09:58

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IMF calls for dollar alternative

CNN

02/10/11

The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world's reserve currency. The IMF said Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, could help stabilize the global financial system...

http://tinyurl.com/697bv2m

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=IMF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=financial+system
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=reserve+currency
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Starmail - 11. Feb, 09:41

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Time to Divest From the War Machine; Drones First?

Nick Mottern, Truthout: "On January 12, 2011, the investment world thrilled to the announcement that ITT Corporation, one of the top ten US military contractors, will disengage from its 'defense' business as part of a planned split into three new companies. The move points to ITT as a possible canary in the coal mine for military contractors, and a signal to those of us who want to stop our current wars that the time is right to mount a divestment campaign on the war industry."

http://www.truth-out.org/time-divest-from-war-machine-drones-first67602

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+machine
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nick+Mottern
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Starmail - 11. Feb, 08:57

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Egypt Protests: Watch for the Demands

Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Four key demands have been constantly lifted up by protesters and opposition parties, which are essential for a credible transition to democracy: ending the arbitrary detention and harassment of journalists, human rights activists and peaceful demonstrators and freeing those who have been detained; ending the state of emergency; allowing free electoral competition in elections; and restoring full judicial supervision of elections.... Without these reforms, any 'orderly transition' in Egypt is likely to be a transition not to democracy, but a transition to dictatorship under a different face."

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-protesters-verge-victory-watch-demands67647

The Revolt in Egypt Is Coming Home

John Pilger, Truthout: "The uprising in Egypt is our theater of the possible. It is what people across the world have struggled for and their thought controllers have feared. Western commentators invariably misuse the words 'we' and 'us' to speak on behalf of those with power who see the rest of humanity as useful or expendable. The 'we' and 'us' are universal now. Tunisia came first, but the spectacle always promised to be Egyptian."

http://www.truth-out.org/the-revolt-egypt-is-coming-home67624

Egypt Demonstrates for Democracy; Americans Contemplate PATRIOT Act Extension

Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "In spite of our own interests, Americans and the US government are supplying the boots that rest on the necks of citizens of Egypt and dictatorships around the world. Meanwhile, we remain silent as the impending reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act threatens to speed the momentum of repression in our own country."

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-demonstrates-democracy-americans-contemplate-patriot-act-extension67635

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The Middle East Does Not Need Stability

By Gideon Levy

This so-called stability encompasses millions of Arabs living under criminal regimes and evil tyrannies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27445.htm

Who's Next? Contagious Revolution Sweeping in Arab World

Video By Press TV

Developments in the Arab world, the Egyptian revolution, a decade of Algerian strife and civil war, the growing trends towards Islamophobia in the West and many other issues are reviewed in this edition of Rattansi & Ridley.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27449.htm

US Cables: FBI Trained Egypt's State Security 'Torturers'

By Daniel Tencer

Egypt's secret police, long accused of torturing suspects and intimidating political opponents of President Hosni Mubarak, received training at the FBI's facility in Quantico, Virginia, even as US diplomats compiled allegations of brutality against them, according to US State Department cables.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27447.htm

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Mubarak?s Norma Desmond moment

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/11/11

We are at what the smart alecks of the world call a plastic moment, a strategic conjuncture, a critical turning point. Because no one?s in charge. The Egyptian people could rise up, as one, tomorrow, in their multi-millions, and crush Mubarak and Mubarakism into dust, if they chose. This is the great fear that all rulers, no matter how popular at the moment, have nightmares about, a terror that pervades and motivates their every action while in office: a sudden and massive uprising...

http://tinyurl.com/6zcmaaa

The perils of intervention

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

02/10/11

Americans have become accustomed to presidents and secretaries of state pontificating on the condition of the world and advising other governments and peoples what they should be doing. But one rather suspects that George Washington, John Adams, or Thomas Jefferson would be shocked to see our Federal government passing judgment on the doings of foreigners and doing so in a hectoring and imperious fashion that seems to suggest that Washington enjoys some exceptional quality that permits it to hand out advice...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1325

When pro-US tyrants topple

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter

02/08/11

Mubarak's fate today may indeed only reinforce the lesson of history. Washington has almost always been embarrassed ? or worse ? by its long-time support of authoritarian rulers. Though there are times when Washington may need to make common cause with unsavory regimes to protect crucial U.S. interests ? those occasions should be the exception rather than the rule...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12768

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
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Starmail - 11. Feb, 08:46

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