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Knowledge Revolution in progress at this moment

There's a battle t's raging outside and

'll soon shake your windows an 'rattle your walls

Bob Dylan

In this moment there is Tahrir Square, Cairo, crowded with thousands of people defying a curfew in heart of the capital of Egypt. A little while ago, warplanes darted above the square at very low altitude, deafening television matches, while al-Jaazirah denounced the attempt to silence him, frantic maneuvers were woven between the government and military leaders, and el-Baradei spoke to the crowd with a megaphone. It is not a revolt, not a rebellion. This is really revolutionary. More: it is a democratic revolution.
It 's very unlikely that the Mubarak regime to hold. Above all, it would be catastrophic, because it would cause a wave of indignation and rage throughout the Islamic world, which would give much more than what some fear the fall of Mubarak. We can only hope that there will be spared such a disaster. That the dignity, authenticity, maturity, that this movement is showing prevail on mob violence and power. We hope that the rais
go away without further bloodshed. But the stakes are too high to take for granted the capitulation of the regime.
Egypt is not any one country: it is the cornerstone of that constellation of false democracies and tyrannies that have been for several decades, the puppets of the West and Americans in the Middle East and North Africa.
This inevitably falling under attack is not simply the Egyptian regime, but the whole of Western policy towards this region, which supported a sword these tyrannies, making us believe that if there is no democracy in the Arab world because Muslims I'm not capable, that these regimes were the only means to ensure "stability" of the region, the only option other tyrannies were even worse, that is hostile to the West.
AND 'statement the day before yesterday Frattini, said to be confident that Mubarak will continue to rule "wisely", as it always has. Wisely? Jailing hundreds of opposition on the eve of every election? Suppressing dissent, persecuting opponents even more reasonable, gagging the media and information?
Lucio Caracciolo was more honest last night. He said: "The rule is that if a dictator is a friend, should be helped and supported."
Well, if there is something that we can hope now is that the battle raging in these hours bury forever these "rules".