Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economy. Show all posts

Monday, June 6, 2011

The model pupil, John Pilger

"Indonesia, once owing nothing but having been plundered of its gold, precious stone, wood, spices and other natural riches by its colonial masters, the Dutch, today has a total indebtedness estimated at $262 billion, which is 170 per cent of its gross domestic product. There is no debt like it on earth. It can never be repaid. It is a bottomless hole."

Bulletin, June 2001

"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."

Arthur Miller

“We have 50 per cent of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of it’s population. In this situation, our real job in the coming period… is to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we have to dispense with all sentimentality… we should cease thinking about human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation”

George Kennan, US strategic planner, 1948

"'structural adjustments programmes', consisting of privatisation, indebtedness and the destruction of public services, have further impoverished and disaffected a large proportion of the world's population."