Conc. the G8 Fraud: ‘Africa needs justice, not charity’...
FPF - fwd.: How the world is taken for another ride, by the same people as those who are responsible for the inhuman misery: In the present and proceeding slaughter by the multinationals in Africa -their major media covering the world - use a dirty trick and blame the gigentic death toll of their actions through hunger etc. by pointing to AIDS.
The smokescreen of music in Geldof's worldwide Live concert was a shameful cover-up* of the bitter and murderous reality in Africa, where the populations pay the price of the multinational's profit.
But even in the United States the misery has been spreading: "Most Americans may find it hard to accept that millions in this nation are suffering from hunger -- an affliction most often associated with war-torn Africa or flood-ravaged Bengal. It flies in the face of everything we've been told about our nation's prosperity." Read what Mother Jones published three years ago and again about the book "Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7wr46
‘Africa needs justice, not charity’
Casual readers of the newspaper headlines could be forgiven for believing that the leaders of the richest and most powerful countries have had a miraculous change of heart. If the papers are to be believed, the key decades-long demand of the global justice movement — debt cancellation — had been agreed to, thanks to an unlikely alliance between Tony Blair’s British Labour government, leading aid agencies and pop “legends” Bob Geldof and Bono. However, the devil is in the details, as Green Left Weekly’s Norm Dixon discovers.
“$55-billion debts write-off agreed”, declared the June 11 British Guardian. “Debtor nations freed of burdens”, the Los Angeles Times announced on June 12. “Victory for Millions”, trumpeted the June 12 British Observer. “Blair, Bono Win One for Africa”, cooed the June 13 Christian Science Monitor. “Debt deal just the beginning, says Geldof”, assured the June 13 Sydney Morning Herald.
The hype was in response to a June 11 agreement by seven finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialised countries (G8 — United States, Japan, Italy, Canada, Britain, France, Germany and Russia). The ministers agreed to immediately cancel all the debts owed by 18 mainly African countries to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfrDB). According to the British government, this amounts to US$40 billion. In practical terms, it should save these countries $15 billion in debt payments, spread over 10 years.
The deal must be approved by the G8 leaders’ summit being held in Gleneagles, Scotland, on July 6-8.
The June 12 LA Times lavishly claimed the deal “fulfilled a decades-old dream of anti-poverty activists”, reporting that US Treasury Secretary John Snow had hailed the arrangement as “an achievement of historic proportions”. The June 13 Christian Science Monitor’s article began: “It’s been a long campaign of persistent persuasion by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish rock star Bono. But finally ... they won a victory for the world’s poorest continent.”
Most newspapers quoted a gushing Geldof: “Tomorrow 280 million people will wake up for the first time in their lives without owing you or me a penny from the burden of debt that has crippled them and their countries for so long. Money we didn’t even know we were owed, and never wanted in the first place, and money they could never pay.”
Also widely reported was Brown’s grandiloquent description of what had been achieved: “It is the intention of world leaders to forge a new and better relationship — a new deal — between the rich and poor countries of the world and I believe that the advances that we have made can be built upon ... This is not as time for timidity, but a time for boldness, and not a time for settling for second best, but aiming high.”
Stirring words indeed, but tragically the hype does not match the reality. - [endquote]
You can read all about who is trying to take you for a ride here at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c3uyu
Confirming what the FPF published about ''Geldof's Live Shame Show'' at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chjdf
In India - because of the same international- but also local criminals - the food is rotting by the millions of tons, while people are starving en masse, as desrcribed by Devinder Sharma in his very informative and shocking essay "The Business of Hunger" - Z-Net - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cysbo
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The smokescreen of music in Geldof's worldwide Live concert was a shameful cover-up* of the bitter and murderous reality in Africa, where the populations pay the price of the multinational's profit.
But even in the United States the misery has been spreading: "Most Americans may find it hard to accept that millions in this nation are suffering from hunger -- an affliction most often associated with war-torn Africa or flood-ravaged Bengal. It flies in the face of everything we've been told about our nation's prosperity." Read what Mother Jones published three years ago and again about the book "Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7wr46
‘Africa needs justice, not charity’
Casual readers of the newspaper headlines could be forgiven for believing that the leaders of the richest and most powerful countries have had a miraculous change of heart. If the papers are to be believed, the key decades-long demand of the global justice movement — debt cancellation — had been agreed to, thanks to an unlikely alliance between Tony Blair’s British Labour government, leading aid agencies and pop “legends” Bob Geldof and Bono. However, the devil is in the details, as Green Left Weekly’s Norm Dixon discovers.
“$55-billion debts write-off agreed”, declared the June 11 British Guardian. “Debtor nations freed of burdens”, the Los Angeles Times announced on June 12. “Victory for Millions”, trumpeted the June 12 British Observer. “Blair, Bono Win One for Africa”, cooed the June 13 Christian Science Monitor. “Debt deal just the beginning, says Geldof”, assured the June 13 Sydney Morning Herald.
The hype was in response to a June 11 agreement by seven finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialised countries (G8 — United States, Japan, Italy, Canada, Britain, France, Germany and Russia). The ministers agreed to immediately cancel all the debts owed by 18 mainly African countries to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfrDB). According to the British government, this amounts to US$40 billion. In practical terms, it should save these countries $15 billion in debt payments, spread over 10 years.
The deal must be approved by the G8 leaders’ summit being held in Gleneagles, Scotland, on July 6-8.
The June 12 LA Times lavishly claimed the deal “fulfilled a decades-old dream of anti-poverty activists”, reporting that US Treasury Secretary John Snow had hailed the arrangement as “an achievement of historic proportions”. The June 13 Christian Science Monitor’s article began: “It’s been a long campaign of persistent persuasion by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish rock star Bono. But finally ... they won a victory for the world’s poorest continent.”
Most newspapers quoted a gushing Geldof: “Tomorrow 280 million people will wake up for the first time in their lives without owing you or me a penny from the burden of debt that has crippled them and their countries for so long. Money we didn’t even know we were owed, and never wanted in the first place, and money they could never pay.”
Also widely reported was Brown’s grandiloquent description of what had been achieved: “It is the intention of world leaders to forge a new and better relationship — a new deal — between the rich and poor countries of the world and I believe that the advances that we have made can be built upon ... This is not as time for timidity, but a time for boldness, and not a time for settling for second best, but aiming high.”
Stirring words indeed, but tragically the hype does not match the reality. - [endquote]
You can read all about who is trying to take you for a ride here at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c3uyu
Confirming what the FPF published about ''Geldof's Live Shame Show'' at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chjdf
In India - because of the same international- but also local criminals - the food is rotting by the millions of tons, while people are starving en masse, as desrcribed by Devinder Sharma in his very informative and shocking essay "The Business of Hunger" - Z-Net - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cysbo
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/3tro9
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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