Note: This isn't an abridged version, we literally read the following "as is".
Plan: The United States Federal Government should stop funding the Egyptian dictatorship.
Observation One (our only observation): “Made in the U.S.A.”
First, the situation in Egypt has come to a deadlock between the military and the people of Egypt. The pursuit of genuine democracy is likely to be derailed by a military clampdown on protests. Tyranny is being bankrolled by the self-interested Obama administration.
Majdian, Behzad. “A Glorified Military Coup in Egypt: An Aborted Revolution or the Genesis of a Genuine Revolution?” Monthly Review, (14 February 2011) <o/l: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/majdian140211.html> [Majdian is a frequent contributor to the Monthly Review, a publication in New York City during the cold war hysteria and featured articles submitted by prominent scholars such as Einstein. Monthly Review has always been independent of any political organization.]
2. The lies and the threat-construction have to end. Seriously—when we’re not selling them guns to shoot or tanks to crush protestors, the U.S. is the world’s single largest exporter of tyranny to Egypt.
Hornberger, Jacob. "U.S.-Supported Tyranny in Egypt," The Future Freedom Foundation (January 31, 2011). o/l: http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-01-31.asp. [Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was a trial attorney for twelve years and former professor of law and economics at the University of Dallas.]
3. It’s kind of sad that we have to have a card for this—“Gee, how do we support democracy in Egypt? Oh, I don’t know… maybe the United States should fucking stop funding the opposite of democracy?”
Khalil, Hany. “To Support Democracy in Egypt, Suspend U.S. Military Aid.” War Times (February 2011), o/l: < http://www.war-times.org/node/217 > [Hany Khalil is an Egyptian American who teaches courses in U.S. Government and Macroeconomics in Houston, TX. He has worked as Organizing Coordinator for United for Peace and Justice, the largest and broadest national peace coalition working to end the Iraq war and change U.S. foreign policy.]
4. Democracy assistance is silly, arrogant, and self-serving.
Majdian, Behzad. “A Glorified Military Coup in Egypt: An Aborted Revolution or the Genesis of a Genuine Revolution?” Monthly Review, (14 February 2011) <o/l: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/majdian140211.html> [Majdian is a frequent contributor to the Monthly Review, a publication in New York City during the cold war hysteria and featured articles submitted by prominent scholars such as Einstein. Monthly Review has always been independent of any political organization.]
5. The support for genuine democracy is the pursuit of the ‘communist Idea’.
Badiou, Alain. “The Incorruptable,” The Meaning of Sarkozy. London: Verso Publishing, 2010. P. 89-95. [French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, University of Paris.]
6. This is an ethical imperative.
Zizek, Slavoj. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. London: Verso Publishing, 2009. p. 91-92.
[Slavoj Žižek is a Lacanian Marxist sociologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and cultural critic; he is also a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, professor at the European Graduate School, and acts as a visiting professor at numerous American universities.]
