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Iraq: The Only Lesson We Ever Learn is that We Never Learn |
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 20th March 08 - Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK)
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary,
the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the
sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of
Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a "hell-disaster". But we have used these parallels before and they have drifted away
in the Tigris breeze. Iraq is swamped in blood. Yet what is the state
of our remorse? Why, we will have a public inquiry – but not yet! If
only inadequacy was our only sin.
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 20th March 08 - Hans Blix, The Guardian (UK)
Responsibility for this spectacular tragedy must lie with those who ignored the facts five years ago.
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy - for Iraq, for the US,
for the UN, for truth and human dignity. I can only see one gain: the
end of Saddam Hussein, a murderous tyrant. Had the war not finished him
he would, in all likelihood, have become another Gadafy or Castro; an
oppressor of his own people but no longer a threat to the world. Iraq
was on its knees after a decade of sanctions.
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20th March 08 - Transcript from a talk by Susan George, Transnational Institute "…'Globalisation and War' is vast and we may as well begin by defining terms so that we are all reading from the same page. "Globalisation” is a much abused word, rather like “development”, and doesn’t mean much unless accompanied by a couple of adjectives and an explanation. My adjectives would be “neo-liberal”, “corporate-led”, “finance-driven”, or whatever else evokes for you the present phase of world capitalism—the kind of capitalism others have called, turbo- or super- or hyper-capitalism." |
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Tibet: Revolt with Memories |
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 20th March 08 - Gabriel Lafitte, Open Democracy
The Tibetan revolt of March 2008, like those of 1959 and 1987,
will be crushed by the overwhelming might of the Chinese military. No
match could be more unequal: maroon-clad nuns and monks
versus the machinery of oppression of the global rising power. In
recent months, fast-response mobile tactical squads whose sole purpose
is to quell the people have been overtly rehearsing on the streets of
Tibetan towns for just what they are now doing.
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 19th March 08 - Linda S. Heard, Al Jazeera
Let's
face it - we were conned. Iraq had no WMDs and no links to Al Qaeda.
Saddam Hussein never tried to purchase uranium from Niger or steel rods
for centrifuges. There was no threat - and the
Bush administration and its allies knew it. They were clever, though.
In the months preceding the invasion, we were drenched with drip-drip
propaganda from the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon.
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 19th March 08 - Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch.org
In his famous book, The
Collapse of British Power (1972), Correlli Barnett reports
that in the opening days of World War II Great Britain only had
enough gold and foreign exchange to finance war expenditures
for a few months. The British turned to the Americans to finance
their ability to wage war. Barnett writes that this dependency
signaled the end of British power.
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Expensive Tastes: Rising Costs Force Food up the Political Agenda |
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 19th March 08 - Javier Blas and Jenny Wiggins, Financial Times
John Beddington, Britain’s chief
scientific adviser, had been in his job for just two months when he
outlined an unnerving scenario for his new employers. The world, he
argued earlier this month, faced an enormous problem – one on a par
with climate change – that policymakers were nonetheless ignoring: food
security.
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Iraq: Five Years, And Counting |
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 18th March 08 - Dahr Jamail, IPS News
Devastation on the ground and largely held
Iraqi opinion contradicts claims by U.S. officials that the situation
in Iraq has improved towards the fifth anniversary of the invasion Mar.
20. U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, during a surprise visit
to Iraq on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a
"successful endeavour".
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Taking Down Big Pharma: Beyond Progressive Malpractice |
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 18th March 08 - Ronnie Cummins, CounterPunch.org
Welcome to Sicko Nation: Swimming in
a toxic soup of 100,000 synthetic chemicals--carcinogens, neurotoxins,
hormone disruptors, immune suppressors, excitotoxins ... Worn
down by corporate junk food, tainted consumer products, air and
water pollution, incessant advertising, infectious disease, synthetic
drugs, cigarette smoke, and alcohol. Zapped 24/7 with electromagnetic
radiation. Stressed out by poverty and economic insecurity, fear
of crime, rampant consumerism, and a murderous work pace. A growing
corps of Americans is chronically sick and dispirited.
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African Agriculture and the World Bank: Development or Impoverishment? |
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 17th March 08 -Kjell Havnevik et al, Pambazuka News
Agriculture’s dominant role in Sub-Saharan Africa’s local, national and
regional economies and cultures throughout pre-colonial history has
been foundational to 20th century colonial and post-colonial
development. No other continent has been so closely identified with
smallholder peasant farming. Nonetheless, smallholder farming has been
eroding over the last three decades, perpetuating rural poverty and
marginalizing remote rural areas. Donors’ search for rural ‘success
stories’ merely reinforces this fact.
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Government Figures Hide Scale of CO2 Emissions, says Report |
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17th March 08 - John Vidal, The Guardian (UK)
Britain's climate change emissions may be 12% higher than officially
stated, according to a National Audit Office investigation which has
strongly criticised the government for using two different carbon
accounting systems. There is "insufficient consistency and
coordination" in the government's approach, the NAO said.
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