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Why Egypt’s popular rebellion is the greatest historical event in a decade, and how Barack Obama missed the boat

good read. it got me at this:

Last month, there was a Tunisian revolution. It started when one Mohamed Bouazizi, of Sidi Bouzid, committed suicide. There’s 30% unemployment in Sidi Bouzid. At 26 years old, he was eking out a living as a fruit vendor, one of a series of marginal jobs he’d been working since he was ten years old — until a police officer slapped him in the face, spat at him, confiscated his fruit cart and electronic scales, and beat him.

So he burned himself to death in protest.

givemesomethingtoread:

I’m writing this on January 28th, 2011, at 11:53 AM Cairo time, although I’m an ocean away from Cairo. But, as someone wrote the other day on Twitter, yesterday, we were all Tunisian; today, we are all Egyptian, and tomorrow, we will all be free. So today I am writing this on Cairo time.

(Thanks, Inky)

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  Click through to read the whole article. It’s really good.
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  good read. it got me at this:...givemesomethingtoread:
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  Very interesting article. I didn’t realize the U.S. sent so much money to Egypt to support their military.
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