The uprising in Egypt has discredited every Western media stereotype about the Arabs

john pilger...

The uprising in Egypt has discredited every Western media stereotype about the Arabs. The courage, determination, eloquence and grace of those in Liberation Square contrast with “our” specious fear-mongering with its al-Qaeda and Iran bogeys and iron-clad assumptions, bereft of irony, of the “moral leadership of the West”. It is not surprising that the recent source of truth about the imperial abuse of the Middle East, WikiLeaks, is itself subjected to craven, petty abuse in those self-congratulating newspapers that set the limits of elite liberal debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps they are worried. Across the world, public awareness is rising and bypassing them. In Washington and London, the regimes are fragile and barely democratic. Having long burned down societies abroad, they are now doing something similar at home, with lies and without a mandate. To their victims, the resistance in Cairo’s Liberation Square must seem an inspiration. “We won’t stop,” said the young Egyptian woman on TV, “we won’t go home.” Try kettling a million people in the centre of London, bent on civil disobedience, and try imagining it could not happen.

can you imagine what's happening in tahrir square transcending national boundaries and spreading across the world...? men, women, old, young, christians, muslims, buddhists, light skin, dark skin, rich, poor, singing, holding hands, taking care of each other, knowing and believing in their own power and refusing to surrender it to the super-rich elites who have come to believe that it's their birthright to tell us all what to do...

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