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The Real Deal
About War In Iraq
By Junious Ricardo Stanton
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But a foreign
invasion which is supported by only a small minority of
Iraqis and which seems certain to lead to long-term
occupation, loss of independence and effective foreign
control of the country's oil can scarcely be regarded as
national liberation. It is also difficult to imagine the
US accepting anything but the most "managed"
democracy, given the kind of government genuine
elections might well throw up.
The danger of
military interventions in the name of human rights is
that they are inevitably selective and used to promote
the interests of those intervening -- just as when they
were made in the name of "civilization" and
Christianity. If war goes ahead, the prospect for Iraq
must be of a kind of return to the semi-colonial era
before 1958, when the country was the pivot of western
power in the region, Britain maintained military bases
and an "adviser" in every ministry and
landowning families like Ahmad Chalabi of the INC's were
a law unto themselves. There were also 10,000 political
prisoners, parties were banned, the press censored and
torture commonplace. As President Bush would say, it
looks like the re-run of a bad movie.-- Seumas
Milne The Guardian dated Feb. 4, 2003 |
As the United States of
AmeriKKKa and its running dog Great Britain feverishly attempt
to sway world opinion or at least the white part of it, to
acquiescing to waging war on a feeble war and economic sanctions
decimated nation like Iraq, most observers despite the compliant
corporate media's unwavering support of Bush's imperialistic
agenda have serious reservations about the morality and
justification for the coming carnage and slaughter. Will
AmeriKKKa unleash their own weapons of mass destruction on the
poor war-torn Iraqi people? Of course it will be like the
neighborhood bullies picking on the a poor cripple as the
neighbors watch afraid the bullies will turn on them.
But there is hope, the
neighbors are stirring and some are even becoming vocal in their
opposition to not only the coming war but the policies that will
follow. Make no mistake AmeriKKKa will win the war and depose
Saddam Hussein without much of a fight. That is just the
beginning. Once they have deposed Hussein they must set up a
puppet government, supply an occupational force to control the
oil fields, cities and the countryside. Bush in his simpleminded
manner talks about "liberating Iraq" but that is not
what is going to happen.
The Iraq scenario will be
like the "liberation" of Afghanistan a year ago, the
government will change, a pro Western puppet will be installed,
the oil companies will divvy up the oil fields once the oil
field fires are brought under control, but there will be resistance
enmity and hatred massive towards the AmeriKKKans due to the
collateral damage and havoc the bombs and missile attacks bring.
U.S. soldiers and mercenaries will have to watch their
backs constantly as well as protect the puppet regime from
assassination. The Bush cabal is like a hard hearted predatory
womanizer who once the have their way with their victim, get
what they want, they abandon them just like they did to the
Afghani people in 1980's and 2001.
AmeriKKKan imperialism in
the name of human rights is the worst kind of hypocrisy. We've
seen it over and over, in Haiti, Cuba, South America Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines. The AmeriKKKan Empire has bases
in 30-50 countries depending on whose figures you use, it is
covertly involved in most of the trouble spots in the world
either as an arms dealer, provocateur, military advisor,
"peace keeper" or "liberator." Quiet as its
kept we should have learned our lessons from Viet Nam, Panama,
Grenada and Gulf Wars, the government lies and operates on
behalf of the ruling elites who covet the gold, oil, and drugs our
young men and women shed their blood and die for unbeknownst to
them.
The actual fighting in the
Iraqi war will be swift and devastating; however, the aftermath
and end game will be long, drawn out and cumbersome. The U.S.
has maintained occupational forces in German, Japan, the
Philippines and numerous other nations for over fifty years,
that's how long this thing in Iraq, Afghanistan and who knows
where else, will drag on only unlike Germany and Japan, there
will be hostile activity against them! And this doesn't address
the situation with North Korea which has an army willing to kick
some serious AmeriKKKan butt hand to hand or long range. Korea
has nuclear weapons and a disciplined army Georgie boy and his
chickenhearted inner circle who have never fought in war don't
want any part of.
3 February 2003
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
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By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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The White Masters of the
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W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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