Fwd: CC Issue 04, Feb - The Video That Started The Egyptian Revolution

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'Day Of Departure' In Egypt
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous

http://www.countercurrents.org/kouddous040211.htm

This post is collated from tweets from @sharifkouddous, Sharif Abdel Kouddous a Democracy Now! producer who spent last night in Tahrir Square in Cairo, who is now in and around Tahrir Square


Day Of Departure: Massive Demonstrations
Across Egypt Aim To Oust Mubarak
Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports Live from Cairo

http://www.countercurrents.org/kouddous040211B.htm

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian pro-democracy protesters have returned to Cairo's Tahrir Square in defiance of violent attacks from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak in the last two days. The New York Times reports the Obama administration has opened talks with Egyptian officials on Mubarak's immediate resignation


A Battle For Democracy
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous

http://www.countercurrents.org/kouddous040211A.htm

Reports on how anti-Government protesters are resisting the Mubarak's regime crackdown


Was This The Video That Started  The Egyptian Revolution?
By Asma Mahfouz

http://www.countercurrents.org/mahfouz040211.htm

Asma Mahfouz is one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, a group of Internet activists credited with a leading role in organizing theRevolutionary protests calling for Mubarak's departure. Her video blog helped spark the Egyptian Revolution


Mubarak Defies A Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu
By Juan Cole

http://www.countercurrents.org/cole040211.htm

Just as Netanyahu takes Washington's billions but then pisses all over American policy objectives with regard to erecting a Palestinian State Lite, so Mubarak has stuffed tens of billions of dollars from Washington into his government's pockets but has humiliated and endangered the United States


The Empire Struggles On…Obama Fails
By Jim Miles

http://www.countercurrents.org/miles040211.htm

The situation in Egypt remains highly unsettled and the eventual outcome is still an unknown, but two things are clear: first that Obama is a failure, in spite of all his record of fine sounding rhetoric; and secondly, the empire struggles on, with as good a chance of winning this round with the Tahrir Square democracy protestors


Middle East Dominos
By Marwan Asmar

http://www.countercurrents.org/asmar040211.htm

It's might be a special Middle East domino, pieces that fall one by one, all rigidly American and western allies, that have long been nurtured into a special relationship based on mutual interests. However, it might be too simplistic to believe that falls are inevitable but it is of no doubt, however, changes in the political map of the Middle East is imminent and 2011 could well be remembered as the year of winds of change


A Historic Moment In Egypt
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat

http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat040211.htm

Popular revolt is against symbolic democracy and fake secularism


After Mubarak: What's Next?
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman040211.htm

Expect new faces continuing old policies, yielding nothing unless sustained mass outrage persists. That's today's reality, resolution still in doubt, but odds always favor the strong


Are We Running Out Of Oil?
By Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss
& Richard Heinberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky040211.htm

An introduction to a video series from The Nation and On The Earth Productions. Bill McKibben, Noam Chomsky, Nicole Foss, Richard Heinberg and other scientists, researchers and writers explain the threat of Peak Oil


The Ascent?
By Thomas Robinson

http://www.countercurrents.org/robinson040211.htm

While Jevons' Paradox suggests that technological conservation of energy will be eroded by greater usage, there is an even more fundamental problem, namely that: 1) technological progress is less useful than usually thought, because of marginal returns and 2) technological advancement and innovation has slowed alarmingly over the last decades. This is why The Ascent of Man seems so timeless: mankind has not ascended much in the recent past. We are in fact witnessing a severe collapse of creativity and innovation in spite of the newest apps on your phone


Extreme Weather Report From Home: The Thong Will Drop
By Subhankar Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee040211.htm

People across half of the US just experienced unprecedented cold, snow and ice brought in by a record setting winter storm. Climate deniers have been wondering, we thought its gonna be warm with global warming, so why is it so cold? The climate scientists on the other hand have been pointing out that as the Arctic warms we'll experience more frequent and severe intensity winter storms with colder temperatures and more snow—all due to human–made climate change


If Ever There Was A Time
By David Sparenberg

http://www.countercurrents.org/sparenberg040211.htm

Nobody is spared some contact with the common diseases of human uncleanness and planetary abuse. Cancer, madness, rape of the Earth. Nobody is spared degrees of involvement with acts of crime, violence, which, always and everywhere, are eclipsing acts of beauty and reverence


A Cautionary Tale
By William Blum

http://www.countercurrents.org/blum040211.htm

The lstest Anti-Empire Report by William Blum


Arise The Heroes Of The People
By Hussein Al-alak

http://www.countercurrents.org/alalak040211.htm

In this age of reality TV, parliamentary scandals and flamboyant athletes, maybe the time has come to re-examine the perspective of the hero, to wipe the slate clean of selective memory and subjectivity, so that people are no longer prevented from gaining access to those men and women, whose "distinguished courage or abilities" have truly helped to shape our everyday lives because as the British playwrite Terence Rattigan stated in his highly acclaimed drama The Deep Blue Sea, "The world is a dark enough place for even a spark to be welcome!"


Systemic Starvation In Melghat
By Shirish Khare

http://www.countercurrents.org/khare040211.htm

Endemic malnutrition of children causes thousands of deaths in Melghat a remote area in Maharashtra, even though government authorities prefer to call it as natural deaths. However, deaths that happen every year, through starvation, and have been happening since records were maintained starting in 1993


Punjab's Agriculture Is Full Of Misery
By Devinder Sharma

http://www.countercurrents.org/dsharma040211.htm

Punjab's Agriculture is in crisis. Green Revolution has taken a heavy toll of the food bowl. The verdant lands have now turned poisonous, aquifers have run dry, food is rich in pesticides, cancer is growing in the rural areas, and so on. Over the years, farmers have slipped into heavy debts, and the farm incomes have dwindled. No wonder, farm suicide rate remains high


Understanding The Concept Of Commons:
A Shared Responsibility
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth040211.htm

How many of us who sit in the comfort of our homes typing or surfing the net on our computers in one of the bigger metropolises in the country, are aware of the 'commons'. What ARE the commons was the question that came to my mind when I first heard about the IASC Conference held in Hyderabad in January 2011. What did the term commons actually mean to us the common man?


The SF8 And FBI Repression
By Richard Brown

http://www.countercurrents.org/brown040211.htm

In this video, Richard Brown, of the San Francisco Eight, speaks at a protest outside the US Federal Court Building in San Francisco on January 25, 2011. Brown urges the public to support the 23 anti-war activists that were subpoenaed to testify before a Grand Jury that day. All activists refused to testify and can now be criminally charged for not testifying


Lawless FBI Intelligence Gathering Practices
By Stephen Lendman

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman040211A.htm

A new Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report titled, Patterns of Misconduct: FBI Intelligence Violations from 2001 - 2008 based its findings on nearly 2,500 FOIA-obtained document pages, revealing alarming (lawless) trends

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