> Below is a link to an in-depth analysis of what's going on in Egypt.
> ``Sightings of the Egyptian Deep State'' by Issandr El Amrani.
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> http://www.merip.org/mero/mero010112
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> It's not pretty. The battle lines are multiple between SCAF the military and
> its mix of civilian-military elites who were the armature of the Mubarak
> regime, the mix of conservative and moderate Islamic parties, and the wash
> of secular parties who will be under represented.
There are also some grounds to be optimistic: (1) the Egyptian working class is now organizing, in countless local struggles (most of which are far from Tahrir or foreign news cameras), and (2) the struggles in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt have forged powerful digital links with each other. They'll be able to learn from each other's mistakes and to compensate for local defeats.
Example: Libya has $150 billion in the bank, and will need to invest the half trillion or so of petro-earnings it will accumulate over the next decade. It could form a "TLE" economic zone of 102 million people with its neighbors, and become the economic engine of an Arab Renaissance.
-- DRR