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Post by sisyphus on Feb 22, 2006 5:07:28 GMT -5
I've been catching up on something I've ignored for a few months...avoided. ... the genocide in Darfur. As I tried, in vain, to wrap my head around this situation, I remembered a book that I highly reccomend to everyone: 12 Myths of World Hunger. I just thought I'd throw it out there.... www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/1998/s98v5n3.html |
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Post by shin on Feb 23, 2006 20:50:10 GMT -5
A day and a half, and no responses from anyone. Myself included. How apt.
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Post by rockkid on Feb 26, 2006 12:46:30 GMT -5
How do you feel about this as a concept………….. Dictatorships foster hunger.
Yea or nay?
Interesting myth buster BTW.
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Post by shin on Feb 26, 2006 20:30:21 GMT -5
You mean they foster famine? Not sure what you mean..
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Post by phil on Feb 26, 2006 21:30:23 GMT -5
I posted an article along with a few pictures last year ...
There was no response back then either !!
Life is even cheaper when far away and dark ...
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Post by sisyphus on Feb 27, 2006 13:21:50 GMT -5
A day and a half, and no responses from anyone. Myself included. How apt. lol. good observation. i guess it was not exactly a post to prompt discussion, though....and i guess it IS one of those dark places in our collective psyche, albeit quite real (if not surreal) to those experiencing it. it's too bad they don't have oil. |
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Post by rockkid on Feb 27, 2006 14:25:42 GMT -5
Contribute to or perpetuate either one is the concept I’m putting forth.
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Post by kmc on Feb 27, 2006 14:35:10 GMT -5
So true.
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Post by phil on Mar 12, 2006 10:38:54 GMT -5
Business as usual ... Darfur terror chief slips into Britain
Foreign Office grants visa to top Sudan official despite UN sanctions
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday March 12, 2006
The Observer
The man accused of being an architect of the genocide in Darfur, Major-General Salah Abdullah Gosh, secretly visited London last week to meet senior British officials.
The Foreign Office admitted it had issued a visa to Gosh, the head of Sudan's National Security agency and the man accused of being a key figure behind the counter-insurgency campaign that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands.
While officials originally claimed the visa had been issued so Gosh could undergo 'medical treatment', they added yesterday that he had also met unnamed British officials for 'discussions on the Darfur peace process'.
British officials are also understood to have discussed al-Qaeda with Gosh, who knew Osama bin Laden in the Nineties. The admission that Foreign Office officials met Gosh - who has been accused of having recruited the janjaweed Arab militias responsible for most of the abuses in Darfur - drew claims of British 'hypocrisy' from human rights groups.
The Sudanese government has repeatedly denied any involvement in recruiting and commanding the militias.
The visa was issued to Gosh to come to Britain for 'medical treatment' after he was apparently refused re-entry to the United States, which he visited last year for meetings with the CIA.
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As well as being held responsible for the Sudanese government's counter-terrorism campaign in Darfur, which has resulted in the displacement of two million people and the deaths of tens of thousands, Gosh also gained notoriety when he acted as the Sudanese government's liaison with Osama bin Laden, who was based in Sudan between 1990 and 1996.
It is for this latter reason that Gosh was flown by the CIA to its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, last year in a private jet before his presence in the US was leaked to the media. Inevitably, this provoked outrage.
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observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1728995,00.html
"Real Politiks" make for strange bedfellows once again ... |
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Post by sisyphus on Mar 29, 2006 7:42:27 GMT -5
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