when susan rice, hillary clinton, barack obama and the rest of the empire's state department team slap sanctions on and start talking down a leader, you know it's time to take the situation with a grain of salt. i refuse to let this situation be spun in favor of the direction of the western corporate interests and i really hope people look hard and deep at what is going on in this area of the world before believing the 24-7 propaganda being fed to us about all of this. mubarak's resignation was stage managed, all you need to do is look at the date which he did it and it says it all. when khadafi was "let off the hook" for the lockerbie bombing - this should of also alerted the more astute that something was up. also - the sharp increase in oil prices in the past month or so, bookended by these rebellions should of also tipped folks off that something was up.

robert gates has repeated the obvious - the u.s. cannot win a ground war in any of the places of color in the world(asia, middle east, africa) and that any push for another entanglement like iraq and afghanistan will only be mired in failure. this is a sign that war by covert means, color revolutions, increased reliance on economic warfare, biological warfare, etc. are the new tools in the 21st century war for continued empire. combine with gaming commodity markets, derivatives and obama's moves towards further lockdown of the food/seed supply via decisions granting u.s. companies patents on GMOs and we may have a more complete picture of this coordinated push of "war by other means."