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LENIN’S TOMB: Salaried bourgeois on “revolt of the salaried bourgeoisie”
Zizek has expended a lot of polemical energy attacking a certain kind of poststructuralist and post-marxist politics for its abandonment of class. But this critique was bound up with a simultaneous attack on ‘political correctness’, ‘multiculturalism’, and so forth, in the name of a ‘leftist plea for Eurocentrism’.
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Slavoj Žižek · The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie: The New Proletariat · LRB 26 January 2012
The possibility of the privatisation of the general intellect was something Marx never envisaged in his writings about capitalism (largely because he overlooked its social dimension). Yet this is at the core of today’s struggles over intellectual property: as the role of the general intellect – based on collective knowledge and social co-operation – increases in post-industrial capitalism, so wealth accumulates out of all proportion to the labour expended in its production.
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Greece to leave the Eurozone and become a German colony | Bill Mitchell – billy blog
The Euro leaders are having another Summit in Brussels today – another one – the 17th in two years. I think they are getting used to the nice wine and sumptuous food that is served up. Little ever comes from these summits that is of any productive import.
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من الواضح أن أزمة السيولة اشتدت فى الجهاز الحكومى نتيجة قلة التدبير فى كبح جماح الإنفاق الحكومى والعجز المتزايد فى الموازنة، مما أدى إلى لجوء الحكومة بالضغط على السيولة المحلية بالجنيه المصرى وزيادة الاستدانة من الجهاز المصرفى من خلال أذون خزانة مما كان له الأثر البالغ فى رفع أسعار الفائدة.
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Egyptian Revolution: Bloody Wednesday / الأربعاء الدامي / الموقعة الجمل – YouTube
الأربعاء ٢ فبراير كان يوم حاسم في الثورة المصرية
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The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.
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It is winter again in Cairo. Amid continued civil disobedience, backsliding by the military “transitional” government and souring attitudes, people rightly took time this week to celebrate the rising that ejected Hosni Mubarak’s despotic regime a year ago.
Archive for 31 جانفي, 2012
My Bookmarx 01/31/2012
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My Bookmarx 01/30/2012
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Five myths about China’s power – The Washington Post
As China gains on the world’s most advanced economies, the country excites fascination as well as fear — particularly in the United States, where many worry that China will supplant America as the 21st century’s superpower.
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وثائقي صباح الخير يا مصر جمعة الغضب – YouTube
فيلم وثائقي يدور عن أحداث يوم جمعة الغضب بتاريخ 28 يناير 2011 وهو كان يوم فاصل في تاريخ الثورة و مصر صور حقيقية من تلك اللحظات الفارقة في حياة مصر و مشاهد تنقل ما حدث في هذا اليوم من أحداث بدايتاً من المسيرات الشعبية في شوارع مصر وصولاً الي ميدان التحرير
My Bookmarx 01/29/2012
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Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor – International – World – Ahram Online
Twitter’s credibility seems to be jeopardized after proclaiming its plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that breaks local laws, as the youthful company had long prided itself in promoting unfettered expression
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Egypt’s Revolutionary Narrative Breaks Down – Lauren E. Bohn | Foreign Policy
With Hosni Mubarak long gone, a heavily Islamist parliament in place, and the military in uneasy command of the country, who speaks for the revolution?
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Twitter to restrict user content in some countries | Reuters
Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.
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فايزة أبو النجا: لا يمكن تنفيذ حكم القضاء بعودة شركات الخصخصة إلى القطاع العام – بوابة الشروق
أكدت الدكتورة فايزة أبو النجا، وزير التعاون الدولي، أن هناك استحالة لتنفيذ أحكام القضاء الإداري بعودة الشركات التي تم خصخصتها، حيث تغير الوضع الفعلي لهذه الشركات بما لها من مقومات وعمالة.
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Egypt gets dumped by its Washington lobbyists | The Cable
All three of the lobbying firms representing the Egyptian government in Washington, D.C., dropped Egypt as a client late Friday amid widespread criticism of the ruling military council’s raid of U.S. NGOs in Cairo and its refusal to let American NGO workers leave the country.
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The trio came under fire last week for circulating talking points defending Egypt’s Dec. 29 raid of several NGOs working to train political parties in Egypt, including three organizations partially funded by the U.S. government. The groups had been working in Egypt for years without being technically registered with the government, but now stand accused of fomenting unrest against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which has been ruling the country since Mubarak’s ouster.
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1936-1939: The Spanish Civil War and revolution | libcom.org
A short history of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution which broke out in response to the right-wing and fascist coup attempt of General Franco.
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مدونة تحررية تهتم بنشر الفكر الأناركي اللاسلطوي والكتابات التحررية باللغة العربية
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ما هي الأناركية بيان تعريفي
My Bookmarx 01/27/2012
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The visible hand | The Economist
The crisis of Western liberal capitalism has coincided with the rise of a powerful new form of state capitalism in emerging markets, says Adrian Wooldridge
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The Oakland Commune: A Short Documentary – Infoshop News
We’ve just completed a documentary film about Occupy Oakland as part of our ongoing series about global responses to the economic crisis. It was completed with interviews that we shot at Oscar Grant Plaza along with archival footage from David Martinez, Caitlin Manning, John Hamilton, and other historical material that tells how the Oakland Commune came into existence.
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Solidarity with Egypt’s revolution | SocialistWorker.org
One year ago, a revolution began in Egypt that ultimately brought down the U.S.-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power. Following on the heels of the Tunisian revolution, Egypt’s struggle provided a ray of hope for millions of people around the world.
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Eyewitness to Israel’s ethnic cleansing | SocialistWorker.org
Purdue University professor Bill Mullen traveled to Palestine with a delegation of academics to find out about the obstacles facing Palestinian students and educators.
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ISRAEL’S COLONIZATION of Palestine is a de facto totalitarianism meant to strangle decades of resistance by an entire people. But it has not succeeded.
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هيئة التنمية الصناعية تطرح قريبا 12 رخصة اسمنت بالمجان | الدستور
كشف اللواء اسماعيل النجدي، رئيس هيئة التنمية الصناعية، اليوم الخميس أن الهيئة تدرس حاليا طرح 12 خصة اسمنت بالمجان خلال الفترة المقبلة على أن يدبر الحائز على الرخصة مصادر الطاقة التي يحتاجها بمعرفته.
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Emerging-market multinationals: The rise of state capitalism | The Economist
The spread of a new sort of business in the emerging world will cause increasing problems
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Ahdaf Soueif interview: ‘Bread, freedom and dignity’|28Jan12|Socialist Worker
Writer and activist Ahdaf Soueif has reported from the front line of the Egyptian Revolution from the 18 days that brought down dictator Hosni Mubarak to today.
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Military Intervention vs. Maritime Union Power | Common Dreams
For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Armed Forces will be deployed to intervene in a labor dispute, facilitating a scab operation against union dockworkers at the Port of Longview in Washington.
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ملامح من التركه الإقتصادية و الإجتماعية لنظام مبارك – YouTube
ملامح من التركه الإقتصادية و الإجتماعية لنظام مبارك للباحث الإقتصادي رضا عيسى
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Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China – NYTimes.com
The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.
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Egypt’s New Path Complicated by Economic Problems – NYTimes.com
After a year of unending turmoil and military rule, Egypt faces an acute financial crisis that could undermine its political transition and pose a defining challenge to Islamists now coming to power.
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الأولى – البورصة تربح 6.6 مليار جنيه ومؤشرها يقفز 3.03% قبيل الذكرى الأولى للثورة
نتعش أداء البورصة المصرية خلال تعاملات اليوم الثلاثاء عشية عطلة العيد الاول لثورة 25 يناير غدا “الاربعاء” وسط عمليات شراء قياسية من المستثمرين الاجانب على أسهم الشركات المصرية خاصة القيادية والكبرى .
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907 مليون دولار انخفاضًا فى دين مصر الخارجى – بوابة الشروق
فى بشرى سارة ــ وإن كانت مؤقتة ــ كشف البنك المركزى مساء أمس الأول عن انخفاض دين مصر الخارجى بنحو 2.6%، ليصل فى نهاية سبتمبر الماضى إلى 34 مليار دولار، مقارنة بشهر يونيو 2011، ويعد هذا الانخفاض الأول منذ نحو عامين، إلا أن المؤشرات كلها تتجه لرفع الدين خلال الشهور المقبلة.
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Socialist Worker editor Judith Orr reports from Tahrir Square in Cairo on a day of protest and celebration, a year after the fall of Hosni Mubarak
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مسيرة «مصطفى محمود»: الثورة مستمرة – YouTube
شارك الآلاف في مسيرة خرجت من مسجد مصطفى محمود، بالمهندسين، يوم الأربعاء ٢٥ يناير ٢٠١٢، حاملين صور لشهداء الثورة و شعارات الثورة مستمرة. وانضم لهم مسيرات خرجت من أمبابة وميدان الجيزة وناهيا، قبل أن تصل المسيرة إلي ميدان التحرير مرددين هتافات بإسقاط حكم العسكر
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سنة عدت و ثورتنا مستمرة ، ٢٥ يناير ٢٠١٢ – YouTube
مسيرات ٢٥ يناير ٢٠١٢ في كل شوارع القاهرة. ثورتنا مستمرة
The revolution lives on in marches throughout Cairo. January 25th 2012.
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Campaign slams IMF for ‘illegitimate’ negotiations with Egypt
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came under fire this week for negotiating a $3.2 billion loan with Egypt’s army council and interim Cabinet, seen by some activists and youth movements as “unrepresentative” of the people.
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The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debt held a conference Saturday to demand that the government leave the decision to accept the loan up to the incoming parliament, set to convene for its first session on Jan. 23.
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My Bookmarx 01/25/2012
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Egyptian Army Makes Most of U.S. Aid – NYTimes.com
In the late 1990s, the Pentagon announced that it would contribute tens of millions of dollars to a 650-bed International Medical Center that the Egyptian military was building in the desert outside Cairo. The money, for medical equipment, training and logistical support, would help improve health care for Egyptian soldiers.
My Bookmarx 01/24/2012
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Zapotec protesters shot on behalf of Canadian mining company
One Zapotec has died and another is in recovery after a group of municipal police officers and other armed men opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the municipality of San José del Progreso, Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Occupy the Class War | libcom.org
A member of Wild Rose Collective writes about how Occupy’s ‘99% vs 1%’ rhetoric is problematic and who in reality in includes and excludes.
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99% of what? » Freedom Press – The Home of Freedom Books and Freedom Newspaper
The wave of occupations that has rolled around the world from Madison, Wisconsin to Tahrir Square in Cairo, from the Spanish M15 movement and onward via Occupy Wall Street has been deeply inspiring to us, and deeply challenging to the system we live under.
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Turkey: Democracy or State of Fear? | Al Akhbar English
“Is this a democracy or an empire of fear?” asked arrested journalist Ahmet Şık at the end of his defense statement during a court hearing on 6 January 2012.
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Egyptians Riot in the Streets in 1977 – 60 Minutes Overtime – CBS News
The last time Cairo’s Tahrir Square saw rioting of this magnitude, the year was 1977 and the president was Anwar el-Sadat.
My Bookmarx 01/23/2012
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كشف ضابطان سابقان بجهاز مباحث أمن الدولة «المنحل» أن حبيب العادلى، وزير الداخلية الأسبق، طلب من «مبارك» إقصاء المشير طنطاوى عن منصبه بسبب الخلافات بينهما، حيث وعده الرئيس السابق بدراسة الأمر، ثم طلب من المشير فرض حظر التجول ومساعدة الشرطة وهو ما أدى إلى انسحاب قوات الداخلية بمجرد نزول أولى سيارات القوات المسلحة.
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Fruit and vegetable consumption by poorer families falls 30%, figures show | Society | The Guardian
Rising food prices and recession resulting in lower income households cutting their recommended five-a-day portions
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One year on, the labor revolution is stalling | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt
On 30 January, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first such federation to be established since the union movement was monopolized by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation in 1957. Since then, some 300 independent unions have been established nationwide, with a reported membership of nearly two million workers.
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الطريق إلى 25 يناير: مشاهد من ثورة الكرامة | المصري اليوم، أخبار اليوم من مصر
ى تلك الثورة رسائل لا تنسى.. بعضها أعطانا الأمل وبعضها سلبه منا وبعضها كان مُبهماً.. لكن المؤكد أنها أثرت بشدة فى تصرفاتنا ومشاعرنا وزادت من سقف مطالبنا وشدة بأسنا.. بعض تلك الرسائل كان فى أعظم يوم فى تاريخ شعب مصر.. جمعة الغضب.
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China’s Ghost Cities…This is a must see! – YouTube
Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns.
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مجهولون يغتالون ناشطا سياسيا خلف “القضاء العالي” وسط ذهول القضاة المعتصمين | الجزيرة مباشر
تعرض محمد جمال، عضو ائتلاف لجان الدفاع عن الثورة في حوالى الرابعة فجر أمس لحادث اغتيال علي أيدي مجهولين فى ظروف غامضة خلف دار القضاء العالى أثناء وجوده أمام مكتب النائب العام مع مجموعة من زملائه المعتصمين، الذين يطالبون بتطهير القضاء.
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Inspired by Revolution, Egyptian Workers Occupy Factory – YouTube
Egyptian workers say a profitable factory was privatized and stripped of its assets
My Bookmarx 01/22/2012
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مطالبنا ومصالحهم: قراءة سريعة في الأزمة الاقتصادية | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية – مصر
مع بداية 2012، تجتاز الأزمة الاقتصادية العالمية عامها الخامس في ظل إصرار حكومات دول العالم على إلقاء الأعباء الاقتصادية الناتجة عنها على عاتق أغلبية السكان من العمال والفقراء الذين يُجبرون على تحمل تجميد الأجور والمعاشات وتقليص فرص العمل والخفض الرهيب في الإنفاق على الخدمات الاجتماعية مثل التعليم والصحة، إلخ.
My Bookmarx 01/21/2012
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Egyptian anarchists seek self-governed society
The word ‘anarchy’ in Greek means “no authority.” Anarchists’ central belief is that “no man is good enough to be another man’s master,” and that “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
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Egypt’s Military Ruler Told Carter Video of Soldiers Stomping on Woman Was Fake – NYTimes.com
During a conversation with former President Jimmy Carter last week, Egypt’s current head of state, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, claimed that widely circulated video images of soldiers beating, stripping and kicking a female protester on the pavement of Tahrir Square last month were entirely fake.
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Opportunity still has racial hue | ajc.com
At the march on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these now famous words: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
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Unions to world leaders: Choose “jobs” or “social collapse” » peoplesworld
GENEVA, Switzerland – The world’s unions are delivering a strong message to international political and business leaders: Create jobs – millions of jobs – or face the consequences.
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Cooperatives Are the Fabric of Your Community | Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative
Last year, the U.S. Senate―building off similar action by the United Nations General Assembly―designated 2012 as International Year of Cooperatives. As a result, cooperatives everywhere are celebrating our unique not-for-profit, member-owned and -controlled business model.
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Egypt’s long-awaited talks with the International Monetary Fund started on Monday on a possible $3.2bn loan.
My Bookmarx 01/20/2012
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The Egyptian military’s economic empire – Blog – The Arabist
Any discussion of the relationship between the army and economy cannot ignore the military establishment’s near-absolute dominance of the local economy in various Egyptian governorates. It is well known to many that Egyptians outside of Cairo live under virtual military rule, wherein twenty-one of the twenty-nine appointed governors are retired army generals.
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Gr33n Data: Democratization the Internet Infrastructure
You sure heard of the Internet blackhole Egypt lived in when Mubarak’s regime shut down the whole internet during January revolution. Other countries are filtering and censoring the Internet, Tunisia, Syria and Iran are just few examples. And recently the availability of the internet to the demonstrators in the Occupy Wall Street movement is an essential issue.
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The Egyptian military’s economic interests have long been considered too taboo to discuss in the mainstream media, so little is known about the sections of the economy that fall under the military’s control. But now that a military council is formally ruling the country, the time is ripe to examine the issue more closely.
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Egypt’s military, an economic giant, now in charge
It owns companies that sell everything from fire extinguishers and medical equipment to laptops, televisions, sewing machines, refrigerators, pots and pans, butane gas bottles, bottled water and olive oil.
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Foreign Military Studies Office Publications – The Role of the Egyptian Military in Domestic Society
Modern Egypt evolved from the 1952 military putsch. From 1952 until the mid-1970s, the Egyptian military was the strongest institution within the Egyptian polity. Nominally, as Egypt has democratized, the Egyptian military’s involvement in matters of national politics has declined as has its direct involvement in matters of state.
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البديل | البديل » د.زينب أبو المجد تكتب: الجيش والاقتصاد في مصر.. لماذا تورط العسكر في القتل؟
هل الحديث في أمور مكرونة كوين ومياه صافي وأنابيب البوتاجاز وبنزينة وطنية أسرار حربية يُعد هتكها من أمور الخيانة العظمى؟ هذا ما تعتقده قيادات القوات المسلحة المصرية.
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لماذا تورط العسكر في القتل ؟ ولماذا يصرون على سرية ميزانية الجيش وهل الأمر له علاقة بالتسليح رغم دخولهم في شراكة مباشرة ومناورات مع الحليف الأكبر لإسرائيل وهو للولايات المتحدة أم أن الأمر له أبعاد أخرى؟ وما حدود هذه الأبعاد وما المصالح التي يحميها المجلس العسكري حد التورط في القتل أو الدخول في معركة طويلة من أجل صلاحيات في الدستور ؟