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Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Yemen and Other Arab Governments Killing Protesters

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Mubarak was not the only brutal dictator in the Arab world.

Government forces are killing protesters in Libya

 

Bahrain


 

(and see this and this).

Iran

 

Yemen

 

and other Arab countries.

Some claim that these protests are actually created by American intelligence forces to destabilize the Arab world

 

 

But trend forecaster Gerald Celente has a very different view of what is unfolding:

It is not solely the Middle East that is destined to experience episodes of violent upheaval. What is transpiring in the Arab world will spread throughout many European states. While the call to arms will be spoken in different tongues, the underlying causes will be the same.

In December 2010 (before Tunisia made the headlines) we issued a Trend Alert titled, “Off With Their Heads!” in which we predicted a “long war between the people and the ruling classes.” We noted that, “Anyone questioning the intensity of the people’s seething anger is either out of touch or in denial.”

It wasn’t Arab anger that led us to that forecast – it was the student and worker revolts spilling into the streets of Europe. The imposition of draconian austerity measures – higher taxes, tuition hikes, lost benefits, curtailed services, public sector job cuts – had young and old raging against a rigged system that paved the way for the privileged and punished the proles.

Though millions marched through the streets of Athens, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, London and Madrid, when the protests ended, the governments were barely shaken, let alone toppled. Unlike the autocratic Arab regimes, where the tight grip of repression could only be broken by violence, in the “democratic” West the illusion of representation and placating government promises mitigated the violence.

 

Both the press and politicians assumed the protests would run their course, people would accept their fate, and, like it or not, suffer the consequences. The protests, however, have not run their course. The economic toll of austerity and unemployment continues to ravage the lower and middle classes. As we wrote in the Winter 2011 Trends Journal, “It will only be a matter of time before a series of final-straw events breaks the public’s back, setting off uncontrollable uprisings, coups (bloodless and/or military), riots and revolts throughout the financially battered world.”

 

 

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Already the public is being conditioned to view the Egyptian military as beloved liberators. But in fact they are simply another arm of the autocratic government, no more familiar with democratic ideals than the dictator they replace … who had himself been drawn from the ranks of the military.

The world leaders and world media are not recognizing the Egyptian uprising for what it is: a prelude to a series of civil wars that will lead to regional wars, that will lead to the first “Great War” of the 21st century.

 

 

 

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Thu, 02/17/2011 - 14:50 | 971008 TBT or not TBT
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Thu, 02/17/2011 - 13:47 | 970752 Rodent Freikorps
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Blaming the US just never gets old, does it?

It is the one constant of vicious tyrants all over the world.

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 14:23 | 970888 iota
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It is the one constant vicious tyrant all over the world.

 

FYP.

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 13:46 | 970748 dick cheneys ghost
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that is the strong hand of the US Military. they will try and protect the "kingdom" with everything they have. its more internal contradictions for US foreign policy. egypt didnt have that much oil.

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Thu, 02/17/2011 - 20:52 | 972525 dick cheneys ghost
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GCC is fully behind Bahrain. this wont be an egyptian style outcome. it could get bloody.

 

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Thu, 02/17/2011 - 13:54 | 970743 gorillaonyourback
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dont believe its the cia, they loved hosni.  I see this post as an attempt to imply that the cia has some control over whats goin on when in fact it has none.  why? cuz whether right or wrong islamic religious fundementalism is growing and they do not believe in interest payments(called RIBA) its totally against the criminal banksters desire.  we need the revolution here to rout those bastards out like andrew jackson said

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 15:26 | 971157 covert
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freedom is very seldom popular. there is a competition between iran and arabia for control, this is what has been causing most of the problems.

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