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		<title>The New Devouring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back , the Herald reminded its readers of the estimated 1.5 million Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe, an episode that has come to be known in the Romani language as the Porraimos (the &#8220;devouring&#8221;). Later, it is reported that &#8220;The far right is on the march in Hungary, literally. In recent months, hardly a week has gone by without a rally being held by the Magyar Garda or &#8220;Hungarian Guard,&#8221; their members decked out in black boots and uniforms bearing nationalist symbols last employed by Hungarian fascists during World War II. Their target: Romany (gypsy) criminals and those who want to integrate Romany children into the country&#8217;s schools. Their rallies usually take place in communities with a large Roma population, where they style themselves as protectors of ethnic Hungarians.&#8221; (Yahoo News, 13 February 2008) Now SOYMB reads that Amnesty International said the EU had &#8220;turned a blind eye&#8221; to what it called a &#8220;serious breach of human rights&#8221; towards Europe&#8217;s Roma. &#8220;There is a clear and systemic programme of EU governments targeting Roma,&#8221; said Anneliese Baldaccini, a lawyer at Amnesty&#8217;s EU office. Campaign groups have accused Brussels of cowardice when it comes to the Roma. In France [...]


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		<title>Afghanistan War: Dope and Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor Ivanov , head of Russia&#8217;s federal drug control agency , said at least 30,000 people died in Russia every year from heroin, 90% of it from Afghanistan. Russia is believed to have around five million drug addicts, half of whom are addicted to heroin. He accused Nato of not doing enough to curb the production of heroin in Afghanistan.He blamed the US administration for ending a military drive to destroy opium poppy crops in Afghan fields. According to statistics from UNODC, in 2001, Afghanistan produced 185 tons of drugs, in 2002 &#8211; 3,400 tons, in 2003 &#8211; 3,600 tons, in 2004 &#8211; 4,200, in 2005 &#8211; 4,100, in 2007 &#8211; 8,200, in 2008 &#8211; 7,700 tons. &#8220;We are poor farmers,” said Sayed Wakhan “We grow opium to survive.” An evaluation by the UNODC of its Alternative Development project between 1997 and 2000 in three districts of Kandahar found that though the project succeeded in raising yields of legal crops (like wheat, cumin, beans, onions and fruit) by about 90 per cent, these improvements would not have been sufficient to make legal crops more profitable than opium poppy. The poppy crop can also be harvested earlier than wheat, allowing farmers to double [...]


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		<title>Masters of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;You can fool all of the people some of the time . . . and some of the people all of the time . . . but . . . The US occupation forces in Afghanistan have learned a particular lesson from the disaster that is Iraq, and they have learned it big time. In the first, largely contracted out war in history, US and other foreign civilians were brought in to carry out just about every task, from the mundane to those viewed as &#8216;front-line&#8217;. A direct consequence of this strategy was millions of unemployed and very disgruntled Iraqis, a large percentage of whom became active or passive supporters of the forces of insurgency/resistance against the perceived injustices of the occupation. In the corporate boardrooms of US War Machine Inc. the alarm bells were ringing; costs (dead bodies and bodies with bits missing) were eating into public opinion and support for the corporations&#8217; products (perpetual war and war materials/services) was declining and, potentially, could severely impact their bottom lines. A slight shift in strategy was called for. Afghanistan, in recent times, has never really been a nation state; it is an area of the world that is a patch-work [...]


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		<title>Ten Good reasons why we are fighting in Afganistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. We are fighting in Afghanistan because we are loyal Americans. We have unquestioning trust in the wisdom of our leaders. 2. We are fighting in Afghanistan because we are devoted to the principles of free trade and free enterprise. That is why we want to protect the heroin export business of President Karzai’s brother and other Afghan warlords against interference and unfair competition by the Taliban. 3. We are fighting in Afghanistan because we want to secure the route for a pipeline to pump vast quantities of natural gas from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India. 4. We are fighting in Afghanistan because we need stability there. We need stability to prevent the disruption of free enterprise (especially for the sake of Reason 3). Previously we backed the Taliban as a force for stability. Now we back the warlords as a force for stability. They too need stability (see Reason 2). Stability is something you can never have too much of. 5. We are fighting in Afghanistan because we hope that we’ll be lucky enough to survive unmaimed and then perhaps the army will pay for our college education and then perhaps we’ll find one of [...]


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		<title>Afghanistan – lying about dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pressure to misinterpret the deaths, as the bodies come back, as nobly purifying is a cynically orchestrated propaganda exercise intended to justify the war. Among the rituals so consoling to our Servants of the People in Westminster is the solemn roll call of the names of recently fatal casualties of the Afghanistan war proceeding to formulaic assurances of grief, of sympathy for family and friends and an assertion, defiant of a mass of disruptive facts, that from the dead will blossom a victory to bring a happier, freer Afghanistan and a safer Britain. All of this will happen, argue the MPs, through some process so far undefined. Meanwhile it is notable that the casualties&#8217; names are exclusively those of members of the British armed forces; the fighters on the other side and the hapless Afghan people who die terrified in their homes from the blast of the missiles do not get a mention. It is all very satisfactory for the Honourable Members on the green benches, dreaming of their expense claims while scheming of how most effectively to avoid any too probing questions from their constituents about the policy of satisfying the appetite of that voracious war. This is [...]


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		<title>Serbia &#8211; 10 years on</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decade on from the Nato bombing campaign, more than 90,000 Serbs are still in danger from unexploded cluster munitions, according to a recent report funded by the Norwegian foreign ministry. The report says they face a daily threat and estimates that there are some 2,500 unexploded devices in 15 areas of Serbia. In the capital, Belgrade, and elsewhere in Serbia you can still see the impact of the bombing. &#8220;The 10th anniversary of the air strikes will lead people to think about the bombing campaign, which they saw as unjust, unfair and illegal action carried out by Nato,&#8221; says Serbian political analyst Bratislav Grubacic. Some 2,500 civilians were killed, among them 89 children, while 12,500 were injured. US Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said that NATO&#8217;s air attack on former Yugoslavia a decade ago was &#8220;the right thing to do&#8221; . Holbrooke when questioned by Charlie Rose during the bombing of Yugoslavia as to why the Serbs didn&#8217;t agree to the terms of the Rambouillet text, Holbrooke, who delivered the final ultimatum to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, stated that Serbs claimed that signing the Rambouillet text would amount to agreeing to a NATO occupation of their country. Holbrooke told Rose he [...]


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		<title>The War Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But nowadays arms firms are not the only large-scale “merchants of death.” Companies like Blackwater sell combat capability directly as the labour of hired mercenaries. Other companies, such as Halliburton, sell logistics and other war support services.


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		<title>Economic Roots of WW2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chopping up history is a common method of distorting it and preventing anything being learned from it. Chopped-up history comes to us as a series of largely self-contained, unconnected and accidental events which were crucially influenced by the personalities of the leaders of the time. The implication is that there is no overall pattern in what happens in the world, that things would have been different had other people been in charge or if certain events had not coincided. It follows from this that there is no need to make any fundamental changes in society because a bad historical accident at one time can be redressed by a good one at another time. Mad Dictators versus The Democracies? The popular account of the last world war goes something like this. After 1918 the victorious Allies made two big mistakes. Firstly, they did not ensure that Germany had been properly finished off as a military power. Secondly, they imposed the Versailles Treaty, a settlement so stringent as to cause a lingering resentment among the German people which was too easily exploited by Hitler, an unusually mad dictator whose consuming ambition was to lead Germany into a conquest of the entire world. [...]


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		<title>A Booming Industry (even in a recession)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent issue of the magazine TIME (14 October) highlighted the immense profits to be made in capitalism even in a trade recession. &#8221; Need to start a war? No problem. While stock markets grate and financial institutions (and even whole countries, like Iceland) teeter on bankruptcy, one global industry is still drawing plenty of high-end trades and profits: weapons.&#8221; The article reported the case in a Paris courtroom where 42 officials went on trial for taking millions in kickbacks and organising huge arms commissions from the Angolan government during the mid-1990s. This group, which included a former French Interior minister,Charles Pasqua and the son of the late French President Mitterand, were charged with having supplied almost $800 million worth of arms to Angola, including 12 helicopters, 6 naval vessels, 150,000 shells and 170,000 mines. The Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos used this huge stockpile to crush the US-backed Unita rebels during Angola&#8217;s devastating civil war. It is worth noting that Dos Santos is reckoned to have made millions of dollars from the transaction and that he is still in power with no prospect of a fraud trial for him. The source of this arms hardware was the huge [...]


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		<title>Why The Economic Crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WSP has produced three leaflets (in pdf format) meant to aid working people to understand the causes of the current economic crisis: &#8220;Booms and slumps &#8211; what causes them?&#8221; &#8211; Discusses in plain terms the causes of economic cycles and why &#8220;Ultimately, it is the economy that controls politicians and not the other way around.&#8221; &#8220;Bubble Troubles&#8221; &#8211; Deals specifically with the housing market collapse. Good Cap, Bad Cap discusses how capitalism is structured and why economic crisis cannot be blamed on &#8220;bad&#8221; capitalists. Crises And Depressions Pt 1, Pt 2 We highly recommended this talk given by &#8216;Hardy&#8217; of our companion party in the UK. MP3 format. Please feel free to forward, e-mail, repost and/or print them widely. No related posts.


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