The Politics of Protests and Tours

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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It was another case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Instead of taking her grand and illustrious fifteen-minute million-dollar tour in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, weeks after tens of thousands of Egyptians flooded the streets and shed their blood in toppling another U.S.-backed autocratic ruler, U.S. Secretary of Emergency, Hillary Rodham Clinton, should have been protesting in Bahrain. Slowly strolling and waving to the onlookers, who were cordoned off by thousands of armed security guards and military troops, and with snipers stationed on top of buildings and machine-gun nests overlooking her tour, she exclaimed: “It’s just a great…

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The Politics of Protests and Tours

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