Regime Change - Minus The Aerial Bombardment
It's been amazing to see secular, democratic Egyptians rise up against President Hosni Mubarak - scenting the possibility of regime change, without targeted strikes by US missiles, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians or the imposition of a Western imperial viceroy and his occupying army.
It could still end in defeat, we've no way of knowing. But it's incredibly inspiring - it shows that self-confident state power, governing with no democratic mandate, can be pushed to the point of collapse by ordinary citizens taking to the streets and confronting lines of baton-wielding police.
UPDATE
Check out these amazing pictures of the protests in Egypt (be warned that some a pretty graphic).
And it's because this image from Cairo has received such worldwide attention that I love the design for this poster, which has been circulating online:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlu7pcSNI6ezXTbNvLvMpjIFq28sGx6ynctdZXOCCdTeLs2gw5N9czcE7xcHsxBi26hJl4lNYhO4hurvcLSh_pxLuMyKfIR-s2j1Z7mYT2l-isc1sItT7jbI4luvBY4-9hFAhkBt8UPzE/s400/we-will-rgb-2.jpg)
London,Cairo, Rome,Tunis ????
Spot the odd one out.
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