cc Following Barack Obama's historic speech in Cairo last week, Mumia Abu-Jamal of San Francisco's Prison Radio (external site) questions Obama's choice of destination. Underlining that Obama 'benefitted more by who he wasn't than who he was', Abu-Jamal acknowledges the US president's success in 'evok[ing] passion' where past presidents would simply have seemed arrogant. But with Egypt 'as far from a democracy as a mouse is from the moon' and benefitting from extensive US aid, America's trust in democracy looks highly dubious when its main allies across the region remain dictatorial regimes, Abu-Jamal contends.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/mumia-abujamal.jpgListen to radio esssays by activist journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal "Live from Death Row" in the United States. Abu-Jamal was on death row after having been convicted of the murder of a Philadelphia Police Officer, but is now serving life in Pennsylvania Maximum Security State Prison.
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