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Egypt’s Effects Go Beyond Its BordersPosted on Feb 2, 2011
What’s happening in the streets of Cairo and elsewhere around Egypt is likely to lead to substantial changes in that country that could well be contagious across the region. —KA
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By ejreed, February 3, 2011 at 10:44 pm Link to this comment
Protests Spread to Yemen
Report thisYemen and Tunisia offer concessions to protesters as dissent spreads across the Arab world. http://www.newslook.com/videos/288173-protests-spread-to-yemen?autoplay=true
By Go Right Young Man, February 3, 2011 at 9:48 pm Link to this comment
GREAT TO SEE it’s back in vogue to speak and write about democracies and representative forms of government.
President Bush stated his foreign policy goals clearly in 2002-03. Crack the Middle and Far East in an attempt to weaken dictators and authoritarians in hopes that those fissures would spark in-toward debates and upheaval. The policy of “stability for security no longer applies”.
GREAT TO SEE it’s back in vogue to speak and write about democracies and representative forms of government.
Report thisBy Eric L. Prentis, February 3, 2011 at 10:27 am Link to this comment
Bernanke, using QE2, is spreading food and energy inflation around the world. Bernanke is saving slimy Wall Street crooks, at the expense of world stability. President Obama, please get your head out of your ass, stop Bernanke before he kills us all.
Report thisBy rollzone, February 3, 2011 at 8:56 am Link to this comment
hello. a contagion of civility spreading rampant
Report thisthroughout a breadbasket of insanity. civilization
takes the first step forward to end brutal human
slaughter at the hand of a dictator, and it may
spread. a ruler is accountable to all his minions, as
his dictate rules the land. when ministers of his
policies behave atrociously against his people, it is
himself behaving through extension, and he must be
accountable. if civilization can no longer tolerate
insane human slaughter, if body counts are no longer
a measure of power but instead a measure of failure,
if economic opportunity is the new measure of
administrative achievement, and this contagion is
spreading: good. some day we may have a global Super
Bowl. go football!
By NZDoug, February 2, 2011 at 10:16 pm Link to this comment
Freedom and democracy returns to Egypt with knives and clubs….
Report thisBy Blackspeare, February 2, 2011 at 10:10 pm Link to this comment
I loved the way the pro-Mubarak forces galloped onto the scene on horses and one lonely camel. By the look of the carrier on the back of the camel it appears the animal was borrowed from the Cairo Zoo’s camel ride. And Anderson Cooper can’t stop relating how he and his crew were attacked by the pro-Mubarak demonstrators. What he doesn’t know is that he was set upon because of his inane and repetitive reporting!
Report thisBy Robespierre115, February 2, 2011 at 8:38 pm Link to this comment
It should spread beyond its borders, most of California is run no better than Egypt.
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