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Bush’s call for Nour’s release was intended to send a message to the Egyptian people that America supported their aspirations for democratic change. Over the past week, the Obama administration has been sending the opposite message. While Egyptians marched by the tens of thousands demanding President Hosni Mubarak‘s ouster, Vice President Biden publicly defended Mubarak against the charge that he is a dictator, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed confidence in the stability of his regime. As these words reached the teeming streets of Cairo, the perception took hold among demonstrators that the United States is siding with Mubarak against the people. The Post reported Sunday that “many protesters are now openly denouncing the United States for supporting President Hosni Mubarak.” One protester complained that U.S. officials “speak about their own interest, not ours.” Another declared: “Tell America that we get to choose our president . . . not them.” Yet another said flatly: “We believe America is against us.” Continue reading →

Neo-Conservatism is both a virulent political psychosis and a political theology based solely on belief.The demonstrable, the empirical are irrelevant issues; so that Bolton speaks from a belief system based on a disordered perception of political reality wedded to an ideology steeped in Schmitt’s friend/enemy concept of the ‘political’.

Kolin: How the US Became a Police State

Posted on 01/31/2011 by Juan

 

Andrew Kolin writes in a guest column for Informed Comment

To understand how the U.S. government became a police state, look no further than how it freed itself from colonial rule. For the American Revolution was, by and large, the result of a mobilization of the masses by the elites to liberate the colonized from a colonizer. It was the starting point of the myth of how the post- Revolutionary government would embody democracy. Continue reading →