{"id":49187,"date":"2013-07-10T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-mubarak-return\/49187\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:19:39","slug":"the-mubarak-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-mubarak-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mubarak (Re)turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

More deaths in Egypt yesterday \u2014 50 and counting. Some call it a massacre. Is there another word for it?<\/em><\/p>\n

This prompted Essam el-Erian of the Muslim Brotherhood to demand the reversal of the \u2018fascist coup government.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile there was a spirited debate on\u00a0yesterday\u2019s\u00a0Democracy Now<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 when is a coup a coup and what kind of coup means what kind of future.<\/p>\n

Everyone is spinning everything. Can the spinning be controlled if the streets become uncontrollable?<\/p>\n

Everybody in Egypt is under tremendous strain, including the pundits on all sides. Meanwhile the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0the election roadmap: there will be amendments to the constitution, then parliamentary elections will be held in February, which will set the stage for Presidential elections in the future. When the Presidential elections will be held is unknown.\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>reports\u00a0the same scenario<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That is, if the country doesn\u2019t slip into civil war.<\/p>\n

How likely is civil war? We know that there is no going back. President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood will not be returning to power. What\u2019s up ahead is unknown. Is it possible that the Egyptian army will lose control?<\/p>\n

Right now the Presidential election seems a long way off. One can only imagine what might happen during the interim, especially after the coup and the violence yesterday.<\/p>\n

Of course, American aid and coordination with Israel is unaffected. The\u00a0crackdown on the press<\/a>\u00a0continues. How are issues to be debated for the upcoming elections if the press is muzzled and dissenters of all stripes are monitored, beaten and jailed? How can Egypt hold together if the press is unmuzzled and dissenters on all sides are allowed to roam free?<\/p>\n

Deutsche Welle<\/a>,\u00a0Reuter AlertNet<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0LinkTV<\/a>\u00a0report that women are being assaulted and gang raped \u2014 as a political tool? For some this might seem ancillary to the debate about the future of Egypt. Perhaps. Or is assault and rape being used as a political weapon of choice to help shape the future?<\/p>\n

The Egyptian police are revising their history. They now contend that the Muslim Brotherhood was responsible for the killings in the days before Mubarak\u2019s ouster. The police were innocent. Their point of view: Doesn\u2019t the now deposed traitorous government and the violence of the Muslim Brotherhood prove their innocence?<\/p>\n

Egypt is spiraling out of control and only an ever expanding martial law can contain the violence that the army, too, is partaking in and in some case may be instigating. Is there an alternative to ever expanding military control?<\/p>\n

Will Egyptian progressives and their supporters continue to justify the army\u2019s expanding powers? Having initially sided with the military, they may have little choice.<\/p>\n

A deal will be struck. That deal will be with the Mubarak holdovers in the army, judiciary, moneyed elites and elsewhere that never went away and have now reasserted their power. How future oriented does that sound?<\/p>\n

Revolutions hide continuities in tradition, culture and power \u2014 for a while. They appear in different guises \u2014 for a while. Sometimes they reappear \u2014 and remain.<\/p>\n

The reality is that the post-Mubarak era is looking more like the pre-Mubarak era that crystallized in the Mubarak era. Whether in the post-Mubarak Mubarak-like era there will be less repression and more freedom is yet to be seen. So far \u2014 not so good.<\/p>\n

Under martial law, on the brink of civil war, the Presidential elections are a horizon that seems suspended in the distance. How much blood will be shed in the interim and what that bloodshed will mean for the future of Egypt is the great unknown.<\/p>\n

Marc H. Ellis<\/strong> is an author, liberation theologian, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, University for Peace, Costa Rica.<\/em><\/p>\n

Republished with permission from: Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More deaths in Egypt yesterday \u2014 50 and counting. Some call it a massacre. Is there another word for it? This prompted Essam el-Erian of the Muslim Brotherhood to demand the reversal of the \u2018fascist coup government.\u2019 Meanwhile there was a spirited debate on\u00a0yesterday\u2019s\u00a0Democracy Now\u00a0\u2014 when is a coup a coup and what kind of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}