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The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack

出版	Clarity Press, Incorporated, 2012
主題	History / Middle East / Israel & PalestinePolitical Science / International Relations / GeneralPolitical Science / PeacePolitical Science / World / Middle Eastern
ISBN	09852710009780985271008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lnBTywAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown the public face of
the imperial-backed dictatorships in the region, and inspired supporters of
popular democracy worldwide.

As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its
demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the
Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down
on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic "partners" in the
Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to drown the civil society movements in a
blood bath.

While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the
United States, France and the United Kingdom raced to intervene when it
seemed the revolt had spread to Libya. NATO was deployed, using the UN's
new "responsibility to protect" doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention.
Already NATO intervention has exceeded the UN mandate by bombing the
Libyan capital and inflicting civilian casualties. Meanwhile, western
governments openly pursue regime change in Libya while seeking to forestall
it elsewhere.

These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa
and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic
revolution and the imperial backed satraps; between Libyans fighting for their
independence and the Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the
country on behalf of their inept local clients.