Mark, what you said is fine and I've no issue with it except for one thing. The
trouble is that I don't understand how it answers my post. Not that I want to force
you to answer me, but it looked as if it was an answer before I read your post.
Anyway, as to the one thing which bothers me. Why do we bash ourselves?
Henwood is on our side, is he not? If he fails on the oil issue, it's good practice
to criticize him of course. But can you fairly say that he celebrates the current
order? The things he's talking about are not necessarily related to the plunder
of anyone. I'm not telling you that they aren't. I don't know. But you can explain
them otherwise without beign a rocket scientist. These things seem to be more
recent than the plunder, isn't it? As to him contradicting himself over the
existence of the new economy, would you care to tell us what he actually
says? BTW, if you can produce some quotes of Henwood showing that he's
indeed the kind of person that you describe, then I'll follow you but now I am
inclined to believe that you are not beign fair at all for no other purpose than an
unproductive feud (I could say it less politely, but what for?).
>Julien, In the past decade around one trillion bucks has left the fSU as
>'capital exports', ie plunder. This plunder even included the entire Soviet
>goild reserve: 2000 tonnes (!) of gold bullion worth at least $25bn which
>disappeared without trace from the Soviet state treasury iun 1991 and has
>never been recovered.
>
>The rape of eastern Europe is a primary reason for current Anglo-American
>smug self-satisfaction, which folks like Mr Henwood celebrate when they say
>we ought to acknowledge a good thing when we see it (raised US living
>standards and employment rates, reduced inner-city crime and poverty etc:
>achievements of the great 'new economy' according to Mr Henwood, who
>covers himself by announcing almost in the same breath that anyway there
>probably *is* no new economy).
>
>...
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