Epstein Secrets

ties. The people filling the power vac=um, as the corrupt local elites fall in Egypt and Tunisia, are the ones wh= would never have been invited to Davos before. They are from excluded organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherho=d. But their very separation from the global elite was one reason the ins

larger world. Even as the elites have become better connected, resentmen= toward them has seemed to grow back home — fueling discontent. The gloomy Davos sessions were a=recognition that 2011 was the year of the protester — from Occupy Wall S=reet and the Tea Party to the Arab Spring <http://www.washi

fall in Egypt and Tunisia, are the ones wh= would never have been invited to Davos before. They are from excluded organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherho=d. But their very separation from the global elite was one reason the insu=gents could ally so effectively with the public: They never disconnected

ty about American imperialism. Over the past year, the World Economic Forum—the same folks who run the annual gathering in the Swiss resort town of Davos—organized a unique set of discussions around the world with dozens of international leaders, from Saudi bankers to Singaporean academics, African

lity in the kingdom. This, to Saudi Arabia, is a bigger threat to its security that any Iranian nuclear weapon. In addition, Riyadh postulates that the Muslim Brotherhood's ascendency in Egypt would afford the Sunni Islamist movement in Saudi Arabia great impetus by virtue of the great ideological links that exist amon

al leadership also sought by Iran. In Egypt, too, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist forces look set to reap an ele

in Switzerland, Erdogan publicly berated Israeli Ppresident Shimon Peres, paradoxically one of Turkey’s greatest supporters. Received as a hero after Davos in Turkey, Erdogan dramatically increased the stridency of his rhetoric against Israel. The Turkish prime minister became the most popular leader in

rogress under Turkish auspices fell apart, depriving Erdogan of what he thought was an important breakthrough. After the Gaza incident at the yearly Davos meetings in Switzerland, Erdogan publicly berated Israeli Ppresident Shimon Peres, paradoxically one of Turkey’s greatest supporters. Received as a h