Tuesday, July 05, 2005

G8's "End poverty in Africa" boondoggle



Guardian columnist George Monbiot writes:
The G8 leaders and the business interests their summit promotes can absorb our demands for aid, debt, even slightly fairer terms of trade, and lose nothing. They can wear our colours, speak our language, claim to support our aims, and discover in our agitation not new constraints but new opportunities for manufacturing consent. Justice, this consensus says, can be achieved without confronting power (for full column)

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