Author: Shahid Bolsen

While I have concentrated primarily on the situation in Egypt (for reasons I have explained often), the onslaught of corporate imperialism is by no means exclusive to Egypt. Across the region, implementation of neoliberalism is progressing rapidly and multinational corporations and foreign investors are imposing their control, undermining national sovereignty, and setting up the mechanisms…

Neoliberalism is a parasitic, if not outright predatory strategy by elites to consolidate absolute power. Privatization is a key component of that strategy. The accumulation of state assets, taking over resources, and entrusting essential services to profit-motivated businesses amounts to conquest and occupation. Education, health care, infrastructure, electricity, water, road and building maintenance, etc, are…