MIDDLE EAST CLASS WAR

Two articles below concern Lebanon's upcoming General Strike.
"Lebanon: Wage Wars":

www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080506072806/lok072800080506

And, "Lebanon Raises Wages on Eve of General Strike":

www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA378127140436/lok120300080506

And, following Egypt's General Strike, "Egyptians Despair as Duty Increases Cancel Out Pay Raises":

www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA421127150016/lok130000080506

In Turkey, the ongoing, multidimensional battle against the AKP continues. The latest EU role is as nauseating as the US one.
Dutch politician, "...Lagendijk A New Member of AKP Team...":

www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid
=103723

And, by the time those represented at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt are finally finished, IF they get their way, there will no longer be any Middle East or other state entities over which to have pay disputes, as their model showcase, Iraq, is proving.
As the US and its other Fascist allies clearly assure its regional friends that Iran's Fascist militias will be controlled, "Egypt Ready to Send Delegation to Iraq":

www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID
=13501

In the continuing battle against state owned Gazprom and Russia, Western backed Nabucco has just received more support, "EU-Turkey Agree on Arab Gas Pipeline Cooperation":

www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/turkey/8871261.asp?gid=231&sz=55004

While a Georgia-Abkhazia battle in the Caucasus heats up.

In the following eloquent, as usual, entry, the situation of Iraqi displaced persons described resembles very much the many millions of declasse wandering around in the US, as well, homeless, street people, beggars, poor working class, aged, unemployed, underemployed, property-less and less propertied, powerless, useless eaters, those living on the edge, the margin, "stateless," supposedly within their own country.
That's not hyperbole.
They are invisible to the corporate media and to just about everybody else.
They simply don't count.
Nobody wants to see or acknowledge their existence.
They are the redundancies of a capitalist workforce.
They are disposal people.
This is Fascism:

www.arabwomanblues2.blogspot.com/2008/05/long-way-from-home.html