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There are some similarities between Egypt and Myanmar, particularly the army’s role in the economy, the full-throttle pursuit of neoliberal policies, the facade of democracy, the domination by the IMF and World Bank, and the increasing power of multinational corporations, and the consequent deepening of poverty and widening of the gap between rich and poor;…

Really, I am so sick and tired of this ludicrous statement, that is taken as a truism, “religion has been behind most of the wars and bloodshed throughout history”. First of all, most of the “religious” wars referred to were actually denominational wars between European Christians, and had, in fact, very little to do with…