Revolution Across the Arab World: What It Seems or More Illusion?

Fake revolutions in Iran and China are instantly supported by the administration and Clinton specifically, while "certain" revolutions merit calls for delayed action and drawn out processes of change. This is a good way to gauge the validity of one revolution or the other. The last thing they wanted was Mubarak gone before they could legitimately install either his son the globalist banker or Sulieman, their long-time asset and go-between.

Whenever you set a back-fire to burn the undergrowth in the path of a forest fire, you always run the risk of igniting something else, a new front on the battle that you didn't expect. Reacting to it once it gets out of control is different than planning to burn a couple of thousand acres.

Tarpley was wrong about Tunisia and he's wrong about Egypt. Sometimes I think he is just trying to get out ahead of the curve because he missed the whole "Green Revolution" fraud in Iran. I don't know.

But Gretavo is correct, IMO. They just see an opportunity to jack up the oil prices in order to justify profits and whatever else they have in mind after the speculators ran up the cost of corn and wheat which started this in the first place. With prices jack-up out of control, they will need to enforce "stability" and that may give them the justification to install more Mubarak like dictators while suppressing democratic elections. Out of control oil prices and 6 dollar a gallon gas will turn massive profits for the globalists and also help Americans turn a blind eye to our thwarting true democracies in the Middle East. Just a guess..

I don't know. We'll see how it plays out.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. JFK

On the one hand, …sure, the adage "things have to change for them to stay the same" as immortalised in the classic novel and Visconti film re Sicilian revolution ‘The Leopard’… One of the truest observations in all cinema.

On the other, don’t fall for the 24 hour news in a nutshell invented stories of this being all down to social networking etc. These people have lived under brutal state oppression for 3 decades with a thug spies watching their every move and brutally pouncing on any dissent. I heard it said somewhere recently, that in Egypt if there was a murder that needed solving, the pigs would round up 50 random blokes and string them up by their elbows until someone ‘confessed’ (Unverifiable)- crime solved.

I am reminded also of John Pilger’s quote that whilst discussing state TV he said the only difference between Russia (& other state controlled medias) and western media was that there, the people knew that state TV was bullshit. This seems to me the essential problem, why the people of the West will be very slow to act if ever, in that the illusion of free press and democracy, along with mass distraction is a huge advancement over the old state propaganda system, and is as yet undefeated. It will also likely be the desired model for all future oligarchy control of new states/ regimes.

I have seen the Tunisian & Egyptian revolts chalked up to social networking and even wikileaks , but you cannot underestimate what living under such regimes was like for 3 decades then facing death to stand up and overthrow it, and the determination of such people to be able to engineer their own political futures and safeguard their gains. They have true feelings of empowerment and participation which already puts them potentially way above the stupefied propaganda fed cattle of western democracies

Though social networking must have been a useful tool for a small percentage of the eclectic hoards that took to the streets, the battle was won on the streets of Egypt by word of mouth and genuine ‘people power’ during a time when all internet and mobiles were cut off.

Also don’t forget that due to overriding economic conditions the new world ‘Players’ will be China. India, Russia & probably most encouragingly south American socialist models (If Venezuela etc are ‘allowed’ to continue their remarkable internal agendas) whilst the old western powers will be in terminal decline.