Egyptian masses against the U.S.-backed Mubarak regime + The Global Revolution Has Arrived

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LeiLani Dowell, Workers World managing editor, speaking at the Workers World Forum Jan. 28, 2011 in New York.

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Egypt: Cue the Dirty Tricks, False Flags To Discredit Pro-Democracy Movement by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
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30 January, 2011

The looting of Cairo’s world-famous Egyptian Museum over the weekend seems to have engendered the desired news headlines.

‘Looters smash ancient treasures’, ‘Looters decapitate mummies’, ‘Looters rip off heads of artifacts’ etc., read a rash of headlines, following the apparent breaking into the country’s national museum, which is said to house the world’s biggest of Pharaonic antiquities.

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Helena Norberg-Hodge: Localization: Development without destruction and The Economics of Happiness, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan

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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
January 30, 2011

(SOAPBOX #85) – Cindy welcomes Helena Norberg-Hodge, an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide and a pioneer of the localization movement.  The destructive impact of globalization on our children is no less destructive than its historical impact on the Ladakh, an isolated Himalayan culture described in countercurrents.org here. Over the past three decades, Ms. Norberg-Hodge has studied this process in numerous cultures around the world and discovered that we are all victims of these same psychological pressures. Continue reading

The “R” Word by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
January 30, 2011

More powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound–Revolution is simply joining forces to overthrow the status quo with uprisings against the world’s ruling class courageously springing up all over the globe.

I have a few “friends” that have been rather indignant and have broken off contact with me because I frequently use the word, “revolution.” I wonder if these same people quit eating at IHOP when the restaurant chain, known for it’s pancakes started it’s new club: “The Pancake Revolution.”

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Noam Chomsky: Both parties have moved to the right

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English: A portrait of Noam Chomsky that I took in Vancouver Canada. Français : Noam Chomsky à Vancouver au Canada en 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

UTactivities | January 27, 2011

Noam Chomsky’s Lecture at the University of Tennessee. January 25, 2011 in Alumni Memorial Building’s Cox Auditorium. Brought to you by the University of Tennessee Issues Committee.

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