Re: [wta-talk] IRAQ - US as the instrument of laissez-faire capitalism

From: Greg Jordan (jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 09:07:54 MST

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    On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, avatar wrote:

    > According to the BBC the private contract for rebuilding Iraq being negotiated by the Americans explicitly includes:
    >
    > a.. the privatisation of Iraqi public industries and Iraq's integration into world "globalization"

    Interesting. Tony Blair's speech to the people of the UK the other day
    mentioned that Iraq's oil money would be placed in a UN account and
    distributed for the benefit of "the Iraqi people". I wonder what that
    means.

    > b.. a buy-American policy

    I kind of suspected this is where the US administration is going to
    "punish" its closest critics in the UN. I wonder if the Russian and French
    contracts will be scuttled...

    > c.. an anti-abortion policy.

    I think this relates to the Bush administration's general federal policy,
    now being applied with international consequences?

    gej
    resourcesoftheworld.org
    jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu



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