I just now managed to read the whole thing -- apart from not making much sense .... it makes some incomprehensible assertions like this one:
"""" A similar coup was carried out in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. In 1978 the Rockefeller Foundation organized a Study Commission on US Policy toward Southern Africa. The report warned of the growing influence of the Soviet Union on the ANC and said that US strategic and corporate interests (i.e., access to South Africa’s minerals) would be best served if there were genuine sharing of political power by all races. The Foundations began to support the ANC. The ANC soon turned on the more radical organizations like Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness movement and more or less eliminated it. When Nelson Mandela took over as South Africa’s first Black President, he was canonized as a living saint, not just because he is a freedom fighter who spent twenty-seven years in prison, but also because he deferred completely to the Washington Consensus. """" That is such a ridiculous argument given that steve biko spent most of his time under house arrest and in prison (like the ANC leaders ) and died in police custody ! Apparently people are incapable of making any choices that may benefit them and will always make the wrong ones (be they an indian farmer ...or someone living under apartheid ) . On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:34 PM, ashok _ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would recommend reading this along with this 40 minute interview with >> Sainath >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5xNyomuf6Y >> >> http://dawn.com/2012/03/18/capitalism-a-ghost-story-2/ >> >> Capitalism: A Ghost Story >> Arundhati Roy | 18th March, 2012 >> >> Is it a house or a home? A temple to the new India, or a warehouse for >> its ghosts? Ever since Antilla arrived on Altamount Road in Mumbai, >> exuding mystery and quiet menace, things have not been the same. “Here >> we are,” the friend who took me there said “Pay your respects to our >> new Ruler.” >> > > > why just india, shes talking about the whole planet. but its > meandering verbiage i found it hard to read beyond paragraph 10. she > should commit suicide right now.
