Friday, July 08, 2005

Ain't no mo to it?

From Ward Harkavy, The Village Voice:

It's terrible that those people—so far, a total of 37 [now at least 50]—died in London today. But there are other kinds of terror and other deaths happening in other parts of the world. And Western governments and corporations—more and more these days, that's one and the same—have done little to stop the slaughter in the [Democractic Republic of Congo]. In fact, the greed of Westerners has kept most of the continent destabilized. But, see, that's great for the financial markets, because the plundering by Western firms has gone on unabated and unchallenged for so long and oil firms, among others, are continuing to extract huge profits from the continent. Don't upset that apple cart. Hence, what's known in only some quarters as the African World War.

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