Imagine a world without US intervention, violence, manipulation, and bullying. What’s happening in the Middle East is sending across the planet precisely the message that a world other than this is what people want, thereby agitating US policymakers, who have never imagined such a world possible. By LUIS V. TEODORO / bulatlat.com
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Egypt’s Long Road Ahead
By EUGENE ROBINSON Truthdig Posted by Bulatlat.com Hosni Mubarak’s iron rule crumbles but will not go gently. He still believes himself president of Egypt, although Egypt does not. The revolutionaries of Tahrir Square still have work to do to dislodge him—and then to dismantle the system of coercion, cronyism and corruption that sustained the dictator’s…
Satur C. Ocampo | A Popular Uprising Rages in Egypt
By SATUR C. OCAMPO At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Posted by Bulatlat.com The people’s uprising in Egypt seeking to oust President Hosni Mubarak provides interesting insights and aspects that I wish to share as concisely as our limited space allows. First, the uprising (the protesters call it a “revolution”) could be the tipping…
Filipino Migrant Group in Solidarity with the Egyptian People, Urges Aquino to Speak Out Against Mubarak Regime (PR)
Press Release 2 February 2011 Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of various Filipino migrant rights groups in the Middle East, today strongly condemned the on-going crackdown on freedom of the Egyptian people to express their justified grievances against a perceived corrupt and repressive regime under three-decade rule of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Last week after urging…
News in Pictures: In Solidarity with Egyptian Protesters
MANILA — Member organizations of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan staged a protest action at Plaza Ferguson near the United States embassy today, February 1, to express their “steadfast solidarity with the Egyptian peoples’ struggle” against the “US-backed regime” of Hosni Mubarak. (Photo by Gregorio B. Dantes Jr. / bulatlat.com)
As Egypt Burns, Worry for Filipinos There and Over DFA’s Lack of Contingency Plans

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“The only way to ensure that Filipinos are safe in Egypt is for President Aquino to support the call of the international community to oust Mubarak,” said Garry Martinez of Migrante.