A Game of Double Bluff

[dArKeR]

The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons


By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 31st May 2005

Rejoice! The world is saved! The governments of Europe have agreed that by 2015 they will give 0.7% of their national income in foreign aid. Admittedly that’s 35 years after the target date they first set for themselves, and it’s still less than they extract from the poor in debt repayments. But hurray anyway. Though he does not become president of the EU until later this year, Tony Blair can take some of the credit, for his insistence that the G8 summit in July makes poverty history. It’s inspiring, until you understand the context.

Everyone who has studied global poverty – including the European governments – recognises that aid cannot compensate for unfair terms of trade. If they increased their share of world exports by 5%, developing countries would earn an extra $350 billion a year, three times more than they will be given in 2015.(1) Any government which wanted to help developing nations would surely make the terms of trade between rich and poor its priority.

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Reading this article, I think the human race will 100% kill itself off. Or at the least Earth will become a Road Warrior life. God Bless aWol and the Republicans and all NeoCon leaders in the world.

[Atman]

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