Link: http://www.democracynow.org/
Egypt is preparing for it's biggest protest in the last week. In the last 30 years... The "million man march" is to begin on Tuesday.
There is the smell of "freedom" in the air. Of Democracy and the desire to live without oppression or the influence of the foreign Empires of the West.
In the last month Tunisia has won it's independence from tyranny, and this seems to have dominoed around the Middle East, and other places in the world. Anti-government protests are also going on in Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, Albania and Russia. There may be others, but ironically it is the corporate-owned American media that has made it difficult for Americans to know the extent of Democratic reform taking place throughout the world, due to their government-sanctioned censorship of the events taking place as you are reading this.
Countries that have been traditionally seen as US allies over the last few decades rather than the dictatorships they really are, have begun to unravel as the youth of those nations are standing up for a better and more just future for themselves, their families and their neighbors. It is the end result of the unfettered free-market globalization that has turned America into a selfish consumer-driven empire, forcing much of the rest of the world into slave-markets for our shopping pleasure, and our addiction to fossil fuels.
On the day before what could be a global turning-point in the history of future world democracy, Amy Goodman, along with Sharif Abdel Kouddous (native-born Egyptian and live in Cairo), and guests talk about this political uprising and populous phenomenon taking place right now. Watch this hour of unbiased and unfiltered analysis and reporting, then and ask yourself where is our future in all this?




01/31/11 06:59:22 pm •