Phyllis Bennis Al Jazeera The removal from office of President Mohammed Morsi portends great excitement but even greater threats to democracy. The democracy of the street – which 16 months ago led to the overthrow of the longstanding President Hosni Mubarak – is claiming the same kind of people’s victory...
Juan Cole Informed Comment Millions Demand Morsi Step Down The Egyptian military estimated that “millions” of Egyptian demonstrated on Sunday to demand early presidential elections, only one year into the four-year term of President Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. The nationwide rallies were, the military said, the largest in...
Mark Weisbrot The Guardian/UK If Washington is ultimately forced to respect international law in this case, it will be because many countries, most strikingly in South America, no longer fear US retaliation. Since Snowden did a huge public service by revealing government wrongdoing, this is another example of how US...
Robert Jensen Common Dreams In the frenzy over Edward Snowden’s leak of classified information about government data-mining surveillance, public officials and pundits have tried to lock us into a narrowly defined and diversionary discussion that ignores the most important question we face about terrorism. Their argument goes something like this:...
And don’t forget Iran, about which our hero will tell every Israeli that “all options are on the table”. And why on “the table”, for God’s sake? Surely the options are in bunkers.
The lesson of all this, which was obvious even before we came, is that superior weapons and forces can occupy a country, but occupiers never really win.