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On Criminal Silences

by Firoze Manji and Patrick Burnett

 

The media is replete with images from Niger of dying children grappling with emaciated breasts that have long dried from starvation.The famine in Niger exposes the sham of G8 pledges to end poverty in Africa during and after their recent meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland and the complicity of those aid agencies who said not a word about this when they had accesses to millions of viewers watching geriatric jives during the Live8 concerts.

 

There is evidence that G8 leaders and international agencies (www.dec.org.uk ) knew about the crisis brewing in Niger for nearly a year. They must have known that at the same time in Niamey shops and markets were (and are still) flooded with food for the rich.

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Born out of genocide; born to live off genocide

by Jacques Depelchin

During August, two historical events are commemorated, both of which had a major impact on the destiny of millions of people and changed the face of the world forever. The first, remembered on August 6 and 9, is the horrific nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The second, marked on August 23, reminds us of the abolition of the slave trade, a system that devastated African societies for hundreds of years. What is the nature of the system that allows for atrocities such as these and countless others? Jacques Depelchin goes to the heart of capitalism and finds a system gone mad.

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Posted  October 25, 2005

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