We Are Egypt [Revolution Roundup #3]

Guest Post: Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2011 20:53 -0500 – We Are Egypt

If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves.

In previous Revolution Roundups, before we were knocked offline, we featured mass protests by the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria, Greece, France and Portugal, as the Global Insurrection contagion spread throughout Europe. And now, as we have seen over the past month, North African and Middle Eastern nations have joined the movement as the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Morocco, Gabon, Mauritania, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan and Algeria have taken to the streets en masse.

The connection between this latest round of uprisings and the prior protests throughout Europe is one the mainstream media is not making. We are witnessing a decentralized global rebellion against Neo-Liberal economic imperialism. While each national uprising has its own internal characteristics, each one, at its core, is about the rising costs of living and lack of financial opportunity and security. Throughout the world the situation is the same: increasing levels of unemployment and poverty, as price inflation on food and basic necessities is soaring.

Whether national populations realize it or not, these uprisings are against systemic global economic policies that are strategically designed to exploit the working class, reduce living standards, increase personal debt and create severe inequalities of wealth. These global uprising, which have only just begun, are the first wave of the inevitable reaction to the implementation of a centralized worldwide Neo-Feudal economic order.

The global banking cartel, centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paid off politicians and dictators the world over — from Washington to Greece to Egypt. In country after country, they have looted national economies at the expense of local populations, consolidating wealth in unprecedented fashion – the top economic one-tenth of one percent is currently holding over $40 trillion in investible wealth, not counting an equally significant amount of wealth hidden in offshore accounts.

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Propaganda doesn’t work as well when you have the Internet, a cyberspace Underground Railroad, a form of mass communication that allows citizens to interact without corporate gatekeepers effectively censoring critical thought. All of these attacks show the desperation of the ruling class, in attempting to maintain an obsolete propaganda system. Just look at how common and accepted unlawful practices have become in pursuit of their goals.

It is a strategic imperative that we protect Internet freedom from the forces of media concentration and censorship. Organizations such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous are playing a critical role in exposing information and protecting those who are critical of the most powerful and corrupt elements within society.


A great deal more here... http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-analysis-global-insurrection-against-neo-liberal-economic-domination-and-coming-a



*A very long article in which you will likely recognise a very great deal.*

K & R

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Sun is shining the weather is sweet - BM :hi:

"Shining & sweet" :D

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Thanks for posting this Kurovski.

I just watched "Triangle Fire" on PBS, looked up and read a bit more about the amazing Clara Lemlich, then came here, read this and went to the link to continue reading.

And, yes, I do recognize a great deal, both in what's occurring now and what occurred in the past.

An aspect I would add to this is the so-called austerity agreements made at G20. I've written about that before here:
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8769829

As the British students wrote on a banner when they protested:
"Our Austerity, Their Prosperity"


K&R

Yep. Privatize the profits, and socialize the risks. it's the same all over.

Your link isn't working. Is it me? give it a check.

Try this and see if it's any better for you:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8769829&mesg_id=8769829

Also, I have it in my journal. The title is:Austerity, G8/G20, Retirement, Wall Street and Little Shop of Horrors

:hi:

Well worth the read!

Thanks for posting

watching far too much TV.

Egypt was protesting their dictatorship. They wanted freedom to select their own government. They were not merely whining that they couldn't win elections.

The struggle may not happen the same way, but the elements are the same

Unemployment, rising prices, lack of representation for the working classes, wealth concentration

:shrug:

not matter much you might really really really wish that it was class war.

Egypt was about not being free to choose their own government. If they had free and fair elections, they would not have needed to revolt -- they would have simply chosen a new government responsive to the people. In fact, they would have done so long ago. To the extent their grievances (as opposed to their method -- the revolution) were related to some class war, they would have elected leaders responsive to those grievances. But they could not, because they did not have free and fair elections. That was the reason for the revolution.

In this country, we can choose our government. Now, you might really hate the fact that the people never choose a government that you are satisfied with (and will never choose a government that you are satisfied with, your wishes notwithstanding). But that has nothing to do with Egypt -- in Egypt they didn't have the power to make the choice at all.

Egypt was not simply people continuously complaining about losing elections -- it was about the lack of free and fair elections in the first place.

And it's the upper classes who contolled the vote, worked to keep corruption in place. Their was also much complaining about excess of the ruling class, as I recall from articles. Although there are so many revolutions these days, I could be confusing what I read from where!


IMO, I do agree that the "you're watching too much tellee" is overstated. Always room for different points of view to be discussed, without a putdown.

uh...you need to do some research