Outrageous for a court to dissolve the elected parliament. Presumably the judges still live in the Mubarak era.
Lets hope the MB win tomorrows presidential election. As always the role of the army is key. I’ve no doubt that Uncle Sam is leaning on the Egyptian military to perform the same role that the army did in Turkey for so long.
No doubt Uncle Sam and his Zionist overlord fear that a Muslim democracy would open the Gaza border and lift the siege.
Egypt is dependent on foreign aid so there are economic pressures the US could use to coerce Cairo. They don’t need to sponsor a coup. But I wouldn’t put it past them to do so.
It is of course entirely possible that the US has had nothing to do with what has just happened and it is the Egyptian secular elite who are trying to suppress democracy without any encouragment from Uncle Sam. Either way this is a very disturbing development.
I strongly suspect that the Egyptian people will have to occupy Tahrir Square several more times if they wish to see democracy.
One thing that alwasy amuses me about secular liberals is that they tend to confuse democracy with liberal outcomes. When it doesn’t produce liberal outcomes they go buck mad and start talking about populism
I would say that it’s complicated … the MB’s off shoots has allied itself with empire in LIbya, Syria … along with it’s “moderate” type in Tunisia. Although, given the large young folks in the Egyptian MB gives it a more anti-empire focus – it has also waffled and acquiesced to the demands of the young liberal-secularists (basically schooled in the “western democracy” model – and largely pro-empire)… At the same time the Egyptian military has shown to have some backbone – has made some favorable overtures towards Iran. So, it’s difficult to say … I’ll say this in complete simplicity – I find myself suspicious of “Islamists” who show up wearing suits and ties … and who find themselves at pains to talk about an Islamic Republic in public … such lack of integrity and clarity of visions can only mean that they’ll easily get suckered and puppeteered
@Carlo: The Greeks are either crazy, or there was severe fraud in the elections. Any guesses?
I now, I am in shock and speechless. I don’t know what to say, really. Greece had the chance of being the trailblazer of the resistance to the international banking bureaucrazy, and now it will be well… …. nothing.
I think I will open a separate comments section for that.
Outrageous for a court to dissolve the elected parliament. Presumably the judges still live in the Mubarak era.
Lets hope the MB win tomorrows presidential election. As always the role of the army is key. I’ve no doubt that Uncle Sam is leaning on the Egyptian military to perform the same role that the army did in Turkey for so long.
No doubt Uncle Sam and his Zionist overlord fear that a Muslim democracy would open the Gaza border and lift the siege.
Egypt is dependent on foreign aid so there are economic pressures the US could use to coerce Cairo. They don’t need to sponsor a coup. But I wouldn’t put it past them to do so.
It is of course entirely possible that the US has had nothing to do with what has just happened and it is the Egyptian secular elite who are trying to suppress democracy without any encouragment from Uncle Sam. Either way this is a very disturbing development.
I strongly suspect that the Egyptian people will have to occupy Tahrir Square several more times if they wish to see democracy.
One thing that alwasy amuses me about secular liberals is that they tend to confuse democracy with liberal outcomes. When it doesn’t produce liberal outcomes they go buck mad and start talking about populism
I would say that it’s complicated … the MB’s off shoots has allied itself with empire in LIbya, Syria … along with it’s “moderate” type in Tunisia. Although, given the large young folks in the Egyptian MB gives it a more anti-empire focus – it has also waffled and acquiesced to the demands of the young liberal-secularists (basically schooled in the “western democracy” model – and largely pro-empire)… At the same time the Egyptian military has shown to have some backbone – has made some favorable overtures towards Iran. So, it’s difficult to say … I’ll say this in complete simplicity – I find myself suspicious of “Islamists” who show up wearing suits and ties … and who find themselves at pains to talk about an Islamic Republic in public … such lack of integrity and clarity of visions can only mean that they’ll easily get suckered and puppeteered
And now the bad news come from Greece:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20120617/174090872.html
The Greeks are either crazy, or there was severe fraud in the elections. Any guesses?
@Carlo: The Greeks are either crazy, or there was severe fraud in the elections. Any guesses?
I now, I am in shock and speechless. I don’t know what to say, really. Greece had the chance of being the trailblazer of the resistance to the international banking bureaucrazy, and now it will be well… …. nothing.
I think I will open a separate comments section for that.