Strange Brouhaha

Friday, June 10, 2005

See? See? SEE??

Naomi Klein:

"THIS IS WHAT KEEPS AFRICA POOR: NOT A LACK OF POLITICAL WILL BUT THE TREMENDOUS PROFITABILITY OF THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENT. ... AFRICA IS POOR BECAUSE ITS INVESTORS AND ITS CREDITORS ARE SO UNSPEAKABLY RICH."

And make no mistake: they want us in the US to end up like that someday too. So that they can be just that much unspeakably richer.

(So, Klein's against Make Poverty History too, because she wants the bulk of the profits from all the "oil...gas, diamond, gold, platinum, chromium, ferroalloy and coal wealth" IN Africa to go TO the Africans. She somehow has the idea that this can be made to happen. A pleasant dream. Myself, I don't think any of us will ever see it. I think we're going to have to scrape by with chump-change plans like History, and even those will fail because they threaten the multinationals too much. But, y'know. No reason to stop trying.)

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