me: > > I can't say anything positive about Burma's junta, > > but might some of > > their famous paranoia be justified? maybe some of > > them have read Naomi > > Klein's SHOCK DOCTRINE? specifically, does anyone > > know what kinds of > > strings are attached to disaster-relief aid?
ken hanly wrote: > One problem seems to be that the UN and other > organisations want to send in their own experts to > distribute aid. The junta wants to control > distribution. the media report that the junta's been selling the good rice in Bangladesh and giving rotten rice to their own people. True? The oil companies seem to like Burma's junta (or at least working with them) but that may be changing. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
