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Military-Industrial Complex and Impacts on the Third World Written by Aziz Choudry, GATT Watchdog Tuesday, 25 November 2008:

Military-Industrial Complex and Impacts on the Third World We live and struggle in an era of blatantly militarized capitalism and the violence of capital. War, occupation, national security ideologies and repression of dissent –at home and abroad - make for booming business opportunities the world over. As pro-free market US journalist Thomas Friedman succinctly put… Continue

A government admission that cuts will have to be made in Britain's Olympic plans in reaction to a rapidly emptying public purse. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article5263723.ece

could be a capital idea for London 2012: The Green Games.



An ecologically economic Olympic Games which showcase how it is possible to build and maintain a high quality of life without consuming so many resources. A new transport system using electric cars and trains to shuttle athletes… Continue

Most people have heard about the crisis in Darfur but probably don't know that the Sudanese governement is actually trading food supplies with Egypt, the U.A.E and Jordan, all of whom are investing heavily in the biggest land grab since the Oregon 'Sooners'.



The profits of this trade are going into controlling and maintaining an army of thugs to terrorise and subdue the people who have no choice but to submit to the worst kind of slavery in order to survive. Aid agencies do little to… Continue

"An ideology does three things: it justifies the economic dominance of a ruling group; it is transmitted through that group's control of the media and education; and it describes the experience of millions of people accurately enough for them to accept it as truth. But it does not have to be logical..."

http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2008/11/financial-system-world-summit

In an unusually interesting Newsnight interview; a Brit, a Dane, an American and an Indian chap,… Continue

Can we really change the ways of the world by simply saying we want peace?

Not if people go on allowing the established system to flourish.



There's been so much emotional incontinence over the election of B.O that it's hard to know where people imagine this 'change' is going to come. It certainly isn't in the way governments are run. Does anyone seriously imagine this guy will turn his back on the sponsors of his succesful bid for the White House: firms like J.P. Morgan do not… Continue