RE: Samir Amin interview

["Paddy Apling" <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect 12 April 2003 14:37 (BST = GMT+1) sent the URL for  Samir Amin
interview
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> What is the significance of this U.S.-led war against Iraq?
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> Samir Amin: This war is not just against Iraq, not even just against the
> Arab peoples, or against the people of the region. It is also not a war
> against Muslims. It is a war against mankind. It is one of a long series
> of U.S.-planned wars, part of an overall criminal project. This project
> seeks to establish U.S. military control over the whole planet. This
> project, and the philosophy that sustains it, developed some years ago,
> even before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It dates back to the 1980s, when
> the ideology of neo-liberalism attained supremacy, symbolised by the rise
> of Thatcherism in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the U.S. At the same time,
> the power of the Soviet Union was declining.

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> full: http://www.flonnet.com/fl2008/stories/20030425005812800.htm
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A very good article - but it is worth adding that this project of the
extreme right-wing of the USA goes back a lot before 1980 - really to the
dropping of the atpmic-bombs on Japan in 1945 as a warning to the USSR (not
even told, as an ally, of the intentin to us the new weapon) and to ensure
that Japan would be occupied by the USA alone.  THAT was not just a campaign
against the USSR, but the onset of the internal anti-communist campaign,
culminating in the MacArthy "Un-American Activities" committee - intended to
curb the growing demands of the working-class movement.

The people of USA, Britain etc. have been subjected to continuous
anti-communist, (essentially anti-democratic) propaganda for nearly 60
continuous years....

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