Mubarak down, more dictators to go

The dictator of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, has resigned.

Tweet from Egypt: Hossam عمو حسام: We got rid of Mubarak. Now it’s time to get rid of Mubarak’s regime. Long live the Egyptian people. Long live the revolution.

Okay, one down. Suleiman? You need a vacation. Here.

Who is Omar Suleiman? A look at his connection to the United States, CIA & torture: here.

In the midst of victory, take a look back at some moments from Egypt’s popular revolution: here.

After Ben Ali of Tunisia, another dictator bites the dust. Who will be the next dictator to fall, in Yemen, Sudan, Albania, Jordan, Gabon or elsewhere?

Nicholas Shaxson, Palgrave Macmillan: “He allowed his country, through its oil industry, to become the African linchpin of the gigantic, secret Elf system – a vast, spooky web of global corruption secretly connecting the oil industries of former French African colonies with mainstream politics in metropolitan France, via Switzerland, Luxembourg, and other tax havens. Parts of Gabon’s oil industry, Joly discovered as she dug deeper and deeper in Paris, had been serving as a giant slush fund: a pot of secret money outside the reach of French judicial authorities in which hundreds of millions of dollars were made available for the use of French elites”: here.