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morice morice 24 février 2011 20:37

ah parce que vous croyez qu’on lit ça comme ça ? Décidément, vous êtes toujours à la masse, Kinini...


plus intéressant ça :
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201122414315249621.htm l

The political economy of the Mubarak regime was shaped by many currents in Egypt’s own history, but its broad outlines were by no means unique. Similar stories can be told throughout the rest of the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Everywhere neoliberalism has been tried, the results are similar : living up to the utopian ideal is impossible ; formal measures of economic activity mask huge disparities in the fortunes of the rich and poor ; elites become « masters of the universe, » using force to defend their prerogatives, and manipulating the economy to their advantage, but never living in anything resembling the heavily marketised worlds that are imposed on the poor.


Unemployment was a major grievance for millions of Egyptian protesters [EPA]
The story should sound familiar to Americans as well. For example, the vast fortunes of Bush era cabinet members Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, through their involvement with companies like Halliburton and Gilead Sciences, are the product of a political system that allows them — more or less legally — to have one foot planted in « business » and another in « government » to the point that the distinction between them becomes blurred. Politicians move from the office to the boardroom to the lobbying organization and back again.

conclusion :
If the January 25th revolution results in no more than a retrenchment of neoliberalism, or even its intensification, those millions will have been cheated. The rest of the world could be cheated as well. Egypt and Tunisia are the first nations to carry out successful revolutions against neoliberal regimes. Americans could learn from Egypt. Indeed, there are signs that they already are doing so. Wisconsin teachers protesting against their governor’s attempts to remove the right to collective bargaining have carried signs equating Mubarak with their governor. Egyptians might well say to America ’uqbalak (may you be the next).


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