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Issue No. 156 | 11 October 2002 |
Work and the Meaning of Life
Interview: The Wet One Bad Boss: Like A Bastard Unions: Demolition Derby Corporate: The Bush Doctrine Politics: American Jihad Health: Secret Country Review: Walking On Water Culture: TCF Poetry: The UQ Stonewall
Muslims Snubbed in Discrimination Laws Workplace Racism Rife Post S11 Qantas Directors Bust Wages Freeze Dad�s the Word For Steelworkers Funeral Workers Dig in Their Heels Unions Expose Truth Of McDonalds� People Promise Gay and Lesbians Workers To Meet VTHC Urges Compassion For Colombian Refugees New Zealand Workers Win Paid Parental Leave WorkCover Inspectors Off the Road Unions On Call For Working Young
The Soapbox Postcard Month In Review The Locker Room Bosswatch Wobbly
Direct Voting Rights Iraq is a Gobalisation Issue Too Letter to George Dubya WTO and Schools Casual Thought
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Iraq is a Gobalisation Issue Too
Corporate malfeasance and take-over aren't going to be the topics of debate in this fall's election, in fact they probably won't even been brought up. The war in Iraq on the other hand will be a top contender, and as usual the debate will be archaic and flat, with a dash of gun rights and abortion snaps. The general public will go on their daily lives and not notice that the war against Saddam is a war for the US economy, and the price will be paid with the blood of soldiers and innocents alike. This same blood could be compared to the sweat and tears millions of people throughout the world have shed as a result of our corporation's never-ending grasp for cash, and this war is no different. The mainstream debate about Globalization has so many facets and layers that the critics (myself included) have a tough time keeping up with them. This debate has been so greatly muted that the connections between war and global governance have not be dissected accurately. We have to realize that the outcome of the proposed " Iraq regime change" is not for humanitarian reasons, and not about terrorism; but about placing a friendly government in Iraq that will allow our corporations to start moving their oil tankers. In the last years of Clinton's presidency Dick Cheney was lobbying on behalf of Haliburton to get the administration to press the UN to drop sanctions against Iraq. I find it hard to believe that only 3 or 4 years later, Dick and company don't have any corporate interests in Iraq. Has Karl Rove so brainwashed us that we are unable to see past the "weapons of mass destruction?" Are our foreign policies not weapons of mass destruction in their own right? Global dominance fashions itself in many ways; from trade agreement to loans, to war and government control. The war against Iraq is just one more puzzle piece in a collage of corporate take over that has plagued the earth for decades. We must oppose this war with as much vigor and pride as we have opposed the IMF and WTO cabals. Lies and deceit have flooded the public discourse, so those that know the truth have a responsibility to speak up. For if we don't, we are as much to blame as the Democrats and Republicans, who are worried more about their re-elections, then the hundreds of thousands of lives that will be lost as a result this conflict. We cannot afford to sit silent any longer. Josh Frank
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