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In recent years I have come to view most politicians as merely being puppets and knaves for various oligarchic factions of the ruling class. The Zionist faction of the oligarchy is among the most adept at manufacturing politicians to blindly support its criminal agenda of war and displacement with the ultimate goal of establishing a Greater Israel in the Middle East.
Although it's now nearly fifty years ago, Stella Koostanchin vividly remembers how lonely she felt when, in 1961, at the age of five, she was separated from her parents and taken to St. Ann's School – then a residential school used to “educate” First Nations' children.
Part I - What is Education For?
Over the last ten years there have been periodic outbursts of rage over the alleged anti-Semitic nature of Palestinian textbooks. Most of these episodes have been instigated by an Israeli based organization called the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (AKA the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education).
On June 5, The Guardian newspaper released a top secret order of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)that ordered a business division of Verizon Communications to provide "on an ongoing daily basis" metadata for all telephone calls "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls" and all calls made "between the United States and abroad."
Since the late 1990s, I have been a regular visitor to my birth country of Egypt. My love for its unique people, history, nature, food and culture keeps drawing me back. And despite some daunting challenges since 2011, this ancient nation is moving forward.
Egypt 2530 is how Egyptians refer to a new Egypt, in reference to two popular uprisings, both supported by their armed forces, that of January 25, 2011 and the other of June 30, 2013. Both successfully got rid of two tyrants, one secular, Hosni Mubarak, and the second is an Islamist, Mohamed Morsy.
Dr. Mohamed Elmasry of Waterloo has seen the Egyptian police attacking the pro-democracy demonstrators with rubber bullets and tear gas. And this week he also walked among those demonstrators, including families and children, who want to remove President Hosni Mubarak, as they assembled in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square.
Last Saturday (May 17, 2014) we drove 6 hours from Canada's University of Waterloo to Ottawa, the nation's capital, to cast our votes in Egypt's presidential election. We were seven in total, aged ranging from 70 (me) to the low 30s.
While there is never a beginning in looking at a situation historically, the British conquest of Egypt in 1882 might be a good place to start. British control and influence continued, until the last British collaborator King Farouk was overthrown in 1952 by the Free Officers Movement, assisted by the CIA. Since that time, Egypt has had a succession of military heads-Naguib, Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak. The short-lived government of Mohamed Morsi is the exception. Now the military is back in the saddle.
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