The FBI “Kamikaze Pilots” Case by Sibel Edmonds (must-read)

by Sibel Edmonds
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Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
February 2, 2011

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In a public statement issued on Monday, January 31, members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sarshar’s censored testimony to the Commission. The former commissioners failed to respond to this request.

Noam Chomsky: This is the Most Remarkable Regional Uprising that I Can Remember

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Chomsky at the World Social Forum (Porto Alegre) in 2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Democracy Now!
Feb. 2, 2011

Camels & horses storm into Tahrir Square as protesters clash in Cairo + Kucinich: The US cannot pick the leaders of other countries

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RussiaToday | February 02, 2011

A group of pro-government supporters riding horses and camels has charged anti-Mubarak protesters. it comes as hundreds of pro-government supporters and protesters demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak clashed in Cairo’s main square on Wednesday. Mubarak supporters break through a human chain of anti-government protesters trying to defend those gathered in Tahrir Square. They tore down banners denouncing the president and fistfights broke out as they advanced across the massive square in the heart of the capital.

Egypt’s Revolution: US Imperialism Brought to Heel by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
2 February, 2011

With up to eight million Egyptian people defying nearly a week of military curfew in that country to insist implacably on the overthrow of the US-backed Mubarak regime, there can be little doubt that this is a people’s revolution.

In this way alone, the people have succeeded already in defying bravely – over 300 have been killed by the regime in the past week – a brutal dictatorship that has ruled their country with an iron fist.

Scheer, Hedges, Sirota, Gross and Tucker: Building a Powerful Left in the U.S.

with Chris Hedges
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February 2, 2011

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Truthdig February 1, 2011

State of the Union: Unnamable Politics and Useful Idiots by Joseph Natoli

by Joseph Natoli
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://politicalaffairs.net January 28, 2011
February 2, 2011

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“For decades, Egypt’s authoritarian president, Hosni Mubarak, played a clever game with his political opponents. He tolerated a tiny and toothless opposition of liberal intellectuals whose vain electoral campaigns created the façade of a democratic process.” — David D. Kirkpatrick and Michael Slackman, “Youths Upend Cairo’s Taming of Opposition,” NYTimes January 27, 2011

“The pragmatist will compromise when he has to, as Obama did with tax cuts, angering liberal Democrats but helping him with the much bigger slice of the electorate who call themselves independents.” — Timothy Egan, “The Six-Year Blueprint,”  NYTimes January 26, 2011

Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy of the US and the West

by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
2 February, 2011

For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare. Just as the authorities in these countries are struggling — and failing — to cope with popular uprisings, so too the United States and other Western countries are rudderless when faced with an undefined enemy — and make no mistake about it, the people of foreign countries are the enemy when their revolts against dictatorship threaten Western interests.