[Marxism] Where do you want to go today?

[Jon Flanders <jonathan.flanders@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In case you needed another reason to abandon the Dark Tower's
software................

Jon Flanders

from Naomi Klein's article "Risky Business"


<<I begin to notice that many of the delegates at ReBuilding Iraq 2 are
sporting a similar look: Army-issue brush cuts paired with dark business
suits. The guru of this gang is retired Maj. Gen. Robert Dees, freshly
hired out of the military to head Microsoft's "defense strategies"
division. Dees tells the crowd that rebuilding Iraq has special meaning
for him because, well, he was one of the people who broke it. "My heart
and soul is in this because I was one of the primary planners of the
invasion," he says with pride. Microsoft is helping develop
"e-government" in Iraq, which Dees admits is a little ahead of the
curve, since there is no g-government in Iraq--not to mention
functioning phones lines.

No matter. Microsoft is determined to get in on the ground floor. In
fact, the company is so tight with Iraq's Governing Council that one of
its executives, Haythum Auda, served as the official translator for the
council's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Sami Azara al-Ma'jun,
during the conference. "There is no hatred against the coalition forces
at all," al-Ma'jun says, via Auda. "The destructive forces are very
minor and these will end shortly.... Feel confident in rebuilding Iraq!"
>>



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