Al-Jazeera on CIA-Provoked Egypt Unrest

Another neatly packaged, media salable revolution that helps celebrate the advance of western consumer electronics ...

Media 'pundits' are eager to blame the timing of the protests in Egypt on economic hardships. Citing Egypt's jobless and inordinate poverty, they would have us believe that the American 'social media', Twitter in particular, has prompted and aided the protests. They would have us believe that in spite of the fact that the Egyptians cry over the price of wheat, they have cell phones and access to social media. We are to accept that the poor, hungry, and jobless Egyptians are revolting against their lot by 'tweeting' in English. Their access to modern technology aside, we are told to accept that the knowledge of English among 80 million Egyptians is so strong that they can 'tweet' -- fully comfortable with Twitter acronyms. Else, we are to believe that Egypt is busy 'tweeting' in Arabic even if Twitter does not lend itself to Arabic any more than it does to Persian.

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Interesting, and convincing analysis. After the telegraph reported that opposition leaders had trained in the US, and the positive portrayal by US media had me wondering. It should be no surprise. There are always levels upon levels, and nothing happens with out someone planning it.