Mubarak steps down as Egypt's president!! !

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The people have come to bury King Hosni, and to curse him. It is possible he will seek refuge in England, where one son owns a house. And his tomb will be in a Islamic cemetery there.

Ignoble end, very fitting, like a wrap.

Neoliberal economics that began under Sadat and accelerated first with the IMF SAP in 1991 and then the rise of the group around Gamal Mubarak in 2004 are what caused the revolution, that and service to Israel. Labour unions helped bring down Mubarak. This is more like the overthrow of the neoliberal regimes in South America in recent years (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador)... so I don't fear this disaster capitalism here so much.

I will always fear disaster capitalism. Though you are right to suggest that perhaps it will not happen in Egypt as much as in other places.

As there exist some of those "democracy people" nurtured by the US in Egypt they really didn't push this whole thing, it was mostly union people and there is already howls of outrage in the West at the prospect of "populist economics" and this means no neoliberal economics. Even Mubarak understood the facts when he fired his cabinet a couple of weeks ago, getting rid of the neoliberals and keeping the security men who he could claim had fought Israel once upon a time.

I read yesterday that that the egyptian millitary has taken over and is to outlaw protest. This is not going to end well.

throw all the bums out! -Mayor La Gaudiar.