Anti-Empire Report: ‘War can be seen as America’s religion’ http://coto2.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/anti-empire-report-war-can-be-seen-as-americas-religion/

The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office, writes William Blum