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I approach this week’s edition of The Party Line with a bit of trepidation–talking about Egypt in a segment I have to tape some hours before I post is risky business. No doubt “facts on the ground,” as they say, have changed since I recorded this. What I really want to address, though, is not so much what is happening in Tahrir Square, but what the hell is going on with the message uttered by US administration officials. That also might have changed since I made this video, but that is exactly what I want to talk about.
The Party Line – February 11, 2011 |
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| By: Gregg Levine Friday February 11, 2011 9:01 am | |
12 Comments
Cool…we’re time traveling with Gregg today.
I like how you were right when you video’d this, and you’re still right that we don’t have a U.S. policy even now, when Egypt’s leadership and potential democracy are more nebulous with Mubarak’s departure.
Let’s hope after the dust settles on the Egyptian revolution that this administration figures out that vox populi is both powerful and is not the same as the corporate-owned media’s pronouncements.
hmmm.. the undisclosed location
Hurray for Obama and Clinton’s eleventy-dimensional foreign policy which yielded them EXACTLY the outcome they were hoping for all along!
If Egyptians can rid themselves of Hosni, how come Clarence Thomas is still on the US Supreme Court?
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html
This really says it all.
Today is Oh-Two-Eleven-Two-Oh-Eleven!
How come Jay Bybee is still on the 9th Circuit Court?
http://www.slate.com/id/2208517/
http://ismubarakstillpresident.com/
Obama is not speaking at 1:30
Obama did not like the speech written by AIPAC, it was a love letter to Mubarak
Jane said something yesterday, that makes one wonder what will OBAMA say?
Jane says “Obama is not going to piss his Student Base of support off, by saying great things about Mubarak”
Me Thinks Obama may speak late at night, like MUBARAK
Blue Texan’s regularly scheduled post is ready: Why is Ron Paul Validating the Views of a Neo-Confederate Secessionist?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rh6YoHyQopURUx2Pm2DdZfdHqofYS8R3AawzfPUkCxs/edit?hl=en#
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Kefayafasad.doc
The first link is a google doc I posted of the JUST the first few pages of the second link (kafaya means “enough”)
The Doc “documents” how the fighter of corruption Mubarak got between $10 and $30 billion in his rule. A bit like Ali in Tunisia.
I did like the comment about the theft by his ministers – Mubarak explains that Egypt can not afford to sack them because the replacements well steal the same amount while the current crowd has calmed down, has enough, and is not stealing that much any more!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/how-the-mubarak-family-made-its-billions_n_821757.html This links to a much more readable article at HuffPo that uses the first link as a source.
Obama’s policy toward Egypt has been coherent and consistent. He just wants to be on the side that’s winning. (If the winners, ultimately, are authoritarian thugs, so much the better.)