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Amn Dawla and the Manufacture of Terrorists Attacks

March 8, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Featured image via @AElMassry The storming of the Amn Dawla (State Security) headquarters in Alexandria by the Egyptian people is more than the beginning of the end for the secret police. It represents the incredible changes ongoing in Egypt, to be sure; changes which are noble and greatly needed. However, information arising from information recovered […]

BREAKING: False Flag from Egyptian Interior Ministry

March 7, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Just read this. UPDATE: Link is broken, I’m working on that. Seems post was deleted. It was translation of recovered document providing information on an Interior Ministry plan from 2005 to plant three car bombs as fake terrorist attack. UPDATE 2: Here is the Google cache page. This is extremely important information, and goes to […]

Am Dawla: Cracking Open State Security

March 5, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Featured image was taken by @3arabawy, Share and Share Alike. The people of Egypt have taken upon themselves the noble goal of dismantling the secret police, and are doing so splendidly. The State Security, or Am Dawla, headquarters in Alexandria has been successfully stormed by protesters. And after all is said and done, we are […]

The Empire of the Mind, Part 2

March 2, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

A very reasonable question to Part 1 could go something along the lines of “just how, exactly, does the US government try to make an empire our of the minds of people?” Well, I’m so glad you asked, because that’s what this post is all about. I think it’s necessary to first delve into the […]

The Empire of the Mind, Part 1

March 1, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

It is an ancient and well-established tradition that the dominant power or powers of a particular epoch will seek to display their primacy by constructing an empire. This is not to say that every empire is purely a vanity project, although all empires have very powerful currents of national pride, and indeed vanity, although such […]

Warning Shot in Libya: Kill-Switch Test

February 18, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

According to renesys.org, the Colonel has dropped the hammer: Libya is completely offline. [EDIT} The Internet has been restored. Consider this a thought exercise, more new comments below. [/edit] Once again, we see a dictator going straight for the big red button marked ‘do not push’ and pushing it. To reiterate what I wrote about […]

The Pan-Arab Revolution: A Perfect Storm of Freedom

February 14, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

During the final days of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said “the Middle East is facing a perfect storm”. Senator John McCain called the protests a “virus”. This was, to be certain, not the most complimentary of things to be said, by the self-proclaimed most free country on […]

Just to Prove a Point: Mubarak was Cold War Dinosaur

February 12, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

When I wrote that Mubarak (see here and here) was a Cold War dinosaur, I meant it. This just came over the Twitter feed, via Anonymous Quebec: But the critical moment came on the evening of 30 January when, it is now clear, Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir […]

Yemen – Yemen President Takes Marching Orders From U.S. Embassy

February 8, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Via WikiLeaks By Richard Smallteacher, Wikileaks staff 6 February 2011. Original article here. New cables released by Wikileaks show that the Yemeni government held 28 Yemeni citizens in prison on behalf of the United States, despite the fact that a Yemeni government investigation showed that “there was no evidence they were involved in terrorist acts.” […]

The Coming Invasion of Iran

February 7, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

As the political situation in Egypt continues to spiral out of the US government’s control, there is an increasing likelihood that the US government will feel it needs ‘to do something’. This should be intuitively obvious: when events don’t happen according to the US government’s liking, it has ‘to do something’ to correct the ‘problem’. […]

Special Envoy Statement Disowned by US Gov’t

February 5, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

[The first part is before US government issued an explicit disowning of Wisner's statement. See edit below this section for my followup comments.] According to US special envoy Frank Wisner, the US government wants popularly rejected Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to stay in power. As the BBC archly noted, “[t]he remarks appear to contradict previous […]

To the People of the World: The US is not your Friend

February 4, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

As if to reinforce what I have been saying these past few months, much has been coming out of late from both revolutions and WikiLeaks. To distill my basic comments about the US government: it is a criminal organisation incestuously intertwined with international corporations and other ‘allied’ governments. Together, this organism is hell-bent on recreating […]

The Problem of Creeping Corporatism

February 3, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee and Chairman, Libertarian National Congressional Committee, wrote in a blogpost from 3 February: The media has done it again. As usual, they’ve presented, the wrong message to the American people about the Egyptian crisis… The media has chosen to sell the storyline told by the rioters and […]

The Rise of Egypt, the Fall of the US

February 3, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Day 10 of the Egyptian Revolution, and as of yet there has really been no clear stance taken by the US government. Both President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have made statements which, in my opinion, amount to hand-wringing. Spokesman Robert Gibbs is generally unwatchable due to his odiousness, but he took the cop-out […]

WikiLeaks Supporters and Preparing for Trouble

February 2, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

As recent events in Egypt have made abundantly clear, corrupt regimes will allow nothing to stand in the way of their maintaining power. Frankly, these actions should be expected of the US government at some time in the future. It is a corrupt regime, and although perhaps not as obviously oppressive as Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship, […]

Egypt – U.S. intelligence collaboration with Omar Suleiman “most successful”

January 31, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Via WikiLeaks. By Richard Smallteacher, Wikileaks staff 1 February 2011. Original article here. New cables released by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. government has been quietly anticipating as well as cultivating Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy chief, as the top candidate to take over the country should anything happen to President Hosni Mubarak. On Saturday, […]

Egypt – Cable from Imprisoned Egyptian Opposition Leader: Defend Democracy “for the friendship of peoples live forever”

January 31, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

Peoples do not die, but governments change like the winter weather Via WikiLeaks. By Richard Smallteacher, Wikileaks 1 February 2011. Original article here. Ayman Nour, one of the senior leaders of the Egyptian opposition who is currently organizing a coalition to create an interim government, wrote an eloquent letter from prison in 2006 to then […]

WikiLeaks, Dictators, and the End of the US Empire

January 30, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

The efforts of popularly ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mobarak to stabilise his failed regime are telling; particularly, his filling of the office of Vice-President. Leaving aside for the moment his choice of VP, I’d like to briefly touch on what I see as the symbolism of the move. Mr Mubarak was VP when his president, […]

Internet Kill-Switch is Last Resort

January 28, 2011 by Angry. Red. Tory

News of Egypt falling off the face of the internet world is spreading rapidly. Frankly, it should come as no surprise that an oppressive regime faced with uncontrollable exposure on the internet would resort to such a technique. In the mind of a dictator, turning off the internet is no different from stopping a newspaper […]

Egypt – Egyptian Military Succession Plans Told to US Embassy