Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Revolution In Tunisia ( part two )

To illustrate how universal the hostility to the so-called unity government is, here's an article from Khalil Amiri, London investment banker. Below it is his bio from the "about" section of his blog:
http://cafesocialist.wordpress.com/

About

Khalil Amiri is a financial strategist in Capital markets in London. He is a former assistant professor of Computer Science at Imperial College and worked as a researcher at IBM (NY) and HP Laboratories (CA). He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. He likes to debate and write on politics, economics and technology, especially as they relate to Tunisia. He is a firm believer in free markets and in the value of and need for rewarding individual enterprise. But he is also an advocate of the essential role that governments ought to play in social support programs, education and healthcare to all citizens. He has therefore been branded by friends as a “cafe socialist”, as they claim he espouses “socialist” values in over-coffee debates while working in investment banking during the day. While he thinks this criticism is unfounded and unfair (wa saoufa you7asaboun, bikolli 7azm), he paid tribute to their wittiness by naming the blog after it.