Scott Horton Interviews Juan Cole
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This interview is excerpted from the KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles broadcast of February 4th. The original is available here.
Juan Cole, Professor of History, blogger and author of Engaging the Muslim World, discusses the ramped-up protests in Egypt following the military’s renewed protection against the goon squads and secret police; why Egypt’s conscript army would not likely cooperate with direct attacks on protesters; whether the protesters can hold out longer than Mubarak – who faces a domestic economic crisis and internal and external pressures to resign; Vice President Omar Suleiman’s solid anti-fundamentalist (and pro-torture) credentials; how US bribe money successfully kept Egypt out of Israel/Gaza/Lebanon conflicts for a generation; and why protests are most likely to succeed in non-oil producing states that can’t afford to bribe their citizens into quiescence.
MP3 here. (26:34)
Juan Cole is the author of Engaging the Muslim World. He is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan and writes the “Informed Comment” blog at Juancole.com.
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kit carson
February 7th, 2011 at 3:33 am
why can't scott conduct all the interviews in a mature manner like this one? i'm tired of his seth green impression.
UE Khalifah
February 7th, 2011 at 4:48 am
Dajjal101:When sabah offered open check to get red of saddam..U$DEMO was ready to collect cash and destroy Irak and Irakee future, but in Poor Eygpt..Mubarak is a big and Sulymen r theives running wellfare Ikhwan cemetries
Benjamin
February 7th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
It all makes much more sense when you realize that "al-Qaeda" is not, and never was, an actual organization. It always was and still is simply a C.I.A. maintained database of Islamists whom the C.I.A. dislikes.
It is and always was as much an organization as the Department of Homeland Security's "Terrorist Watch List" is an organization.
Now you know what it means when they say "an al-Qaeda operative" has been killed or captured.
I have a degree in International Relations, Scott, how about an interview?
whiteylawful
February 8th, 2011 at 1:45 am
If the New World Order's nation-building in the Mid-east has inspired this–may it result in the expunging of The West's global agenda–and my the Mid-east realise cultural autonomy.
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