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This article's analysis coencides by reliable Muslim observers of events and offers some of the details of actual American plans.

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Egypt's Revolution:
Creative Destruction for a 'Greater Middle East'?
F. William Engdahl, February 5, 2011
Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement
launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the
carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present
regime of Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional
regime changes from Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as
"creative destruction."
The template for such covert regime change has been developed by the Pentagon, US intelligence
agencies and various think-tanks such as RAND Corporation over decades, beginning with the May
1968 destabilization of the de Gaulle presidency in France. This is the first time since the USbacked
regime changes in Eastern Europe some two decades back that Washington has initiated
simultaneous operations in many countries in a region. It is a strategy born of a certain
desperation and one not without significant risk for the Pentagon and for the long-term Wall Street
agenda. What the outcome will be for the peoples of the region and for the world is as yet unclear.
Yet while the ultimate outcome of defiant street protests in Cairo and across Egypt and the Islamic
world remains unclear, the broad outlines of a US covert strategy are already clear.
No one can dispute the genuine grievances motivating millions to take to the streets at risk of life.
No one can defend atrocities of the Mubarak regime and its torture and repression of dissent. No
one can dispute the explosive rise in food prices as Chicago and Wall Street commodity
speculators, and the conversion of American farmland to the insane cultivation of corn for ethanol
fuel drive grain prices through the roof. Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer, much of it
from the USA. Chicago wheat futures rose by a staggering 74% between June and November 2010
leading to an Egyptian food price inflation of some 30% despite government subsidies.
What is widely ignored in the CNN and BBC and other Western media coverage of the Egypt events
is the fact that whatever his excesses at home, Egypt's Mubarak represented a major obstacle
within the region to the larger US agenda.
To say relations between Obama and Mubarak were ice cold from the outset would be no
exaggeration. Mubarak was staunchly opposed to Obama policies on Iran and how to deal with its
nuclear program, on Obama policies towards the Persian Gulf states, to Syria and to Lebanon as
well as to the Palestinians.1 He was a formidable thorn in the larger Washington agenda for the
entire region, Washington’s Greater Middle East Project, more recently redubbed the mildersounding
"New Middle East."
As real as the factors are that are driving millions into the streets across North Africa and the
Middle East, what cannot be ignored is the fact that Washington is deciding the timing and as they
see it, trying to shape the ultimate outcome of comprehensive regime change destabilizations
across the Islamic world. The day of the remarkably well-coordinated popular demonstrations
demanding Mubarak step down, key members of the Egyptian military command including Chief of
General Staff Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Enan were all in Washington as guests of the Pentagon. That
conveniently neutralized the decisive force of the Army to stop the anti-Mubarak protests from
growing in the critical early days.2
The strategy had been in various State Department and Pentagon files since at least a decade or
longer. After George W. Bush declared a War on Terror in 2001 it was called the Greater Middle
East Project. Today it is known as the less threatening-sounding “New Middle East” project. It is a
strategy to break open the states of the region from Morocco to Afghanistan, the region defined by
David Rockefeller's friend Samuel Huntington in his infamous Clash of Civilizations essay in Foreign
Affairs.

.....Kefaya is at the heart of mobilizing the Egyptian protest demonstrations that back ElBaradei's
candidacy. The word Kefaya translates to "enough!"
Curiously, the planners at the Washington National Endowment for Democracy (NED) 7 and related
color revolution NGOs apparently were bereft of creative new catchy names for their Egyptian Color
Revolution. In their November 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia, the US-financed NGOs chose the
catch word, Kmara! In order to identify the youth-based regime change movement. Kmara in
Georgian also means "enough!"
Like Kefaya, Kmara in Georgia was also built by the Washington-financed trainers from the NED
and other groups such as Gene Sharp's misleadingly-named Albert Einstein Institution which uses
what Sharp once identified as "non-violence as a method of warfare." 8
The various youth networks in Georgia as in Kefaya were carefully trained as a loose, decentralized
network of cells, deliberately avoiding a central organization that could be broken and could have
brought the movement to a halt. Training of activists in techniques of non-violent resistance was
done at sports facilities, making it appear innocuous. Activists were also given training in political
marketing, media relations, mobilization and recruiting skills.
The formal name of Kefaya is Egyptian Movement for Change. It was founded in 2004 by select
Egyptian intellectuals at the home of Abu ‘l-Ala Madi, leader of the al-Wasat party, a party
reportedly created by the Muslim Brotherhood. 9 Kefaya was created as a coalition movement
united only by the call for an end Mubarak’s rule.
Kefaya as part of the amorphous April 6 Movement capitalized early on new social media and
digital technology as its main means of mobilization. In particular, political blogging, posting
uncensored youtube shorts and photographic images were skillfully and extremely professionally
used. At a rally already back in December 2009 Kefaya had announced support for the candidacy of
Mohammed ElBaradei for the 2011 Egyptian elections.10
RAND and Kefaya
No less a US defense establishment think-tank than the RAND Corporation has conducted a
detailed study of Kefaya....

....At this writing it is unclear what the ultimate upshot of the latest US-led destabilizations across the
Islamic world will bring. It is not clear what will result for Washington and the advocates of a USdominated
New World Order. Their agenda is clearly one of creating a Greater Middle East under
firm US grip as a major control of the capital flows and energy flows of a future China, Russia and
a European Union that might one day entertain thoughts of drifting away from that American order.

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