Things to consider—

Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

OpEds: The way forward in Egypt / Take #2

 ANNOTATED NEWS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS COLLABORATION, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, EGYPT  Comments Off
Nov 262012
 
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Johannes Stern, wsws.org

Egypt’s leader Mohamed Morsi

The Constitutional Decree of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi—by which Mursi claims all legislative, constitutional, executive and judicial powers—poses basic questions of political perspective before the working class.

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) president declared last week that he has extraordinary powers “to take any measures he sees fit in order to preserve and safeguard the revolution, national unity or national security.” References to preserving “the revolution” are a fraud. The principal target of Mursi’s measures is the working class, and he is asserting the most far-reaching antidemocratic measures in the effort to consolidate bourgeois rule in Egypt, in close alliance with the United States. Continue reading »

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Egypt’s Morsi: Biting the bullet / Take #1

 CLASS STRUGGLE, EGYPT  Comments Off
Nov 252012
 
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As depicted by the UK’s Guardian: Egyptian protesters hold a banner depicting President Mohamed Morsi as a pharaoh during a demonstration over his presidential decrees. Photograph: Andre Pain/EPA

Eric Walberg

At last Egyptian politics is moving. President Mohamed Morsi is slowly building on his summer ‘coup’, when he stared down Egypt’s generals and put his men in the top army and defence positions, following terrorist attacks in Sinai which the army, so old and bumbling, so involved in Egyptian internal politics, failed to prevent. Continue reading »

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Egypt erupts after presidential power grab

 CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, EGYPT, ISRAEL, REVOLUTION, The Middle East, US Foreign Policy  Comments Off
Nov 242012
 
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We hope that out of these semi-spontaneous struggles the people of Egypt will eventually throw off the yoke of the native bourgeoisie and other local elites associated with international imperialism. Not to mention the deadweight of fanatical backward religiosity. For victory to happen, they will need a far better organized movement than the current waves of brave protesters, a party with a conscious and clear strategy to hold fast and prevail in what will doubtless be a very long and difficult struggle, against plenty of enemies within and without.

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