Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)
The trouble with Egypt (and Tunisia, and Jordan, and...) is that America did what it frequently does to rule the world: It set up, trained, and supported a dictator who suppresses human rights, civil rights, and individual freedoms and replaces them with authoritarian "law and order."
John Perkins explains how the US empire rules.
Not satisfied to allow Egypt's current dictator to hand power over to his son, who might not be sympathetic to America and Israel (by, say, continuing to host secret detention centers for extraordinary rendition), the US has secretly encouraged an even more pro-American Egyptian to attempt to assume leadership. This time it will be different; this time there will be the appearance of democratic reforms and the Westernization of standards (read more electronics and consumer goods).
The author reveals the details of how the US has built an empire through debt.
That's all downtrodden people can hope for with a superpower that is little better than those former empire it has replaced. Iraq's Saddam Hussein was installed, trained, and supported by the US and CIA, then vilified when he dared to act independently with indifference to American demands. This has happened throughout Central America and elsewhere around the world. The standard operating procedure for corrupting governments and setting in place brutal military dictators is laid out from an insider in Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins.
