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Washington hasn’t given up on repressing the Egyptian people<\/a>:<\/p>\n A shipment of teargas canisters from the United States arrived at the Abadeya Port in Suez on Sunday, according to official documents obtained by Al-Masry Al-Youm.<\/p>\n Five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters were shipped to the Interior Ministry by Aramex International, a courier service based in Alexandria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In case there is anyone out there thinking these canisters are for a deterrent effect, or some state-funded art project, the shipping documents explicitly stipulate that “the Egyptian government may use the canisters” but that “they are forbidden to re-export the shipment or sell it to third parties.” Hardly a difficult task for a despotic government dealing with rowdy citizens.<\/p>\n The decades-long US support for the Mubarak dictatorship in Egypt has already been virtually erased from history if you take it from the mainstream commentary. But even since Mubarak’s overthrow, Washington\u00a0has been sending<\/a>\u00a0Egyptian security forces anti-riot gear, crowd control equipment and weaponry.<\/p>\n In addition, Washington continues to send about $1.5 billion to Egypt every year, mostly in security assistance and F-16 fighter jets<\/a>, and offering even more in debt relief<\/a>,\u00a0apparently as a bribe<\/a>\u00a0to keep \u201cAmerican interests\u201d a priority.<\/p>\n As\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0last year, US aid to Egypt helps keep the pockets of defense corporations nice and full. But the broader strategy there is the same as its always been: to bribe the Egyptian tyranny towards conformity to US interests.<\/p>\n