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

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Egypt Update, 2 August

The protesters have been violently removed from Tahrir and Syntagma Squares. Will either revolution survive?

Here's a great piece by the great Robert Fisk, a must read.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-egypts-revolutionary-youth-are-being-sidelined-2330213.html

Here's another great piece from Yves Smith. He brilliantly deconstructs the bourgeois press' journaganda on the topic, also a must read.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/propagandized-us-reporting-on-recent-developments-in-egypt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail

Speaking of journaganda:

Egypt’s Bedouin to protect gas pipeline

CAIRO: Companies controlling the natural gas pipeline that delivers gas to Jordan, Israel and Syria have contracted local Bedouin groups in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to protect the pipeline after five attacks already this year.

Egypt’s state-run MENA news agency reported that the managing companies are looking for alternatives to maintain security after a series of blasts have stalled gas transports from Egypt.


Now that's funny! Big Oil has security forces: They are called the US Army, the UK Army, the IDF, the Mossad etc., they don't need bedouin.

http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=38174