BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN As the vast, rebellious crowds mustered during February in Tahrir Square, Cairo, and across the region from Benghazi to Manama, there were plenty of complacent commentaries here in the U.S. about the made-in-America tools fuelling the struggle for democracy across the Middle East: Twitter and Facebook. There was a flourishing little Internet industry claiming that the overthrow of Mubarak came courtesy of U.S. Twitter-Facebook command. There were respectful articles about Jared Cohen, […]

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