Well, DemocracyNow! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous is in Egypt, and they’ve developed a workaround to circumvent the Mubarak regime’s internet blackout.
His round-the-clock tweets are being read around the world HERE.
Sharif landed in his home city of Cairo just few days ago, but it was not the same country he grew up in.
He told this morning Amy Goodman that he did land in a different country than the one he has known his entire life. Egypt has been reborn. This is not the Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt anymore. And no matter what happens next, it will never be again.
But Some problems lays ahead.
How will the army behave once the people reach the Presidential Palace, when many in the opposition has already vow to invest the Palace.
Sharif come from a prominent family in Egypt, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, his grandfather is a famous writer, his uncle Mohamed Abdel Quddoos is a leading opposition protester.
Phone interview of yesterday morning of Sharif Abdel Kouddous, senior producer with Amy Goodman, both from DemocracyNow.org can be seen, heard or read HERE.
And, meanwhile... protests spread to Jordan, Yemen and Sudan.
Seems dice were cast...
Zbigniew Brzezinski co-founded the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller, serving as director from 1973 to 1976. Then has served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
CFR Meeting: Zbigniew Brzezinski Fears The Global Awakening
Zbigniew Brzezinski giving the CFR branch in Montreal a presentation discussing world government and his fears of the mass global awakening that has taken place.
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination... The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening... That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing... The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches...
Zbigniew Brzezinski
You can watch HERE the whole presentation.
Sharif Kouddous just interviewed Journalist Arabawy who has been at the forefront of activism and political analysis in Egypt for years, he says after much debate the final decision is to stay in Tahrir today and not march to Mubarak's house today.
That would avoid a lot of violence.
Stay tuned via DemocracyNow.org at 8h00 EST
...more to come