THE WESTERN ENGINEERED NEOCOLONIAL,NEOLIBERAL MAKEOVERS FOR THE ARAB WORLD....POMED Notes: “After the Arab Spring: The Uphill Struggle for Democracy” http://pomed.org/blog/2011/11/pomed-notes-“after-the-arab-spring-the-uphill-struggle-for-democracy”.html/  On Friday, The Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East in conjunction with Freedom House hosted a discussion panel regarding the potential outcomes of the current transitions taking place in several countries in the region, and the potential outcomes of several revolutionary struggles taking places in several more countries in the region. Freedom House also released their 2011 Countries at the Crossroads report, which reviews the current status of the democratic struggle across the MENA region. The discussion was moderated by Michele Dunne, Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. Panelists included William Taylor, Special coordinator, Office of Middle East Transitions for the U.S. Department of State, David Kramer, President of Freedom House, Hisham Melhem, Washington Bureau Chief of Al’Arbiya Television, Vanessa Tucker, Project Director for the Countries at the Crossroad report, Freedom House and David Yang, Director of the Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID. The panel opened with brief remarks from each panelist followed by a round of questions from the audience and the moderator. Taylor then spoke, elucidating on where the Department of the State and the U.S. Government in general stands regarding the changes occurring within the MENA region. Taylor stated that the “U.S. Government sees this [the Arab Spring] as an opportunity – probably the greatest opportunity in foreign relations of the century and certainly of this decade- its of great importance and we want to do what we can [to help].”  
[ALSO SEE... Market deregulation has been propped up in place of meaningful freedom, largely according to a play book provided by the US through USAID http://www.theafricareport.com/index.php/201103145137874/soapbox/fallacy-of-freedom-usaid-and-neoliberal-policy-in-egypt-5137874.html Mubarak signed structural adjustment agreements with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which were reinforced the following year by USAID’s Sector Policy Reform Program in a move that brought the total amount of disbursements for economic liberalisation to $2.3bn.  USAID has forced the Egyptian government to heavily tax the production of staples by local farmers and to eliminate subsidies on essential consumer goods like sugar, cooking oil, and dairy products in order to make room for US competition. To ameliorate the resulting food gap, USAID’s so-called “Food for Peace” programme has provided billions of dollars of loans for Egypt to import subsidized grain from the US, which has further undercut local farmers. The result of all of this “agricultural reform” has been an unprecedented spike in food prices followed by widespread hunger and malnutrition – which helped to spark the recent uprising.
[ALSO SEE..W.E.F EXPOSED) (GLOBALISTS/WAR-CRIMINALS/ZIONISTS/CIA PUPPET ''ARAB RULERS'' AND THE NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC AGENDA ''SOLUTION'' ... At World Economic Forum, Arab Spring looms large  http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/10/for-tomorrow-world-economic-forum-world.html  NEOLIBERALISM ENDGAME -American businesses step up Tunisia support http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/07/neoliberalism-endgame-american.html NEOLIBERALISMWATCH-Tunisia lures foreign investment http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/06/neoliberalismwatch-tunisia-lures.html NEOLIBERALISMWATCH- Tunisia seeks foreign investment http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/05/neoliberalismwatch-tunisia-seeks.html Arab Spring brings Corporate Locusts Egypt's next step to "freedom." http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/06/arab-spring-brings-corporate-locusts.html EGYPTS DERAILED REVOLUTION-EGYPTIAN PM RECEIVES SENIOR US DELEGATION(YANKEE NEOLIBERALISM STYLE http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/06/egypts-derailed-revolution-egyptian-pm.html TWO ''ZIONIST/NEOCON ''US SENATORS TELL OBAMA IT IS TIME FOR INCREASED(NEOLIBERAL PUSH) US ENGAGEMENT WITH TUNISIA http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/10/two-zionistneocon-us-senators-tell.html