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17 Jul 08
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The main Western powers were co-opting smaller countries with aid and trade benefits
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And within countries like Ireland, as also in the wealthier European NATO member countries - former colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Belgium - an internal process of co-option was under way bringing NGOs on board to serve more than ever as the soft arm of Western Bloc and NATO country foreign policy.
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much of their funding, sometimes even the majority of it, comes directly from governmental sources,
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Reading it again reminds one of how far aspirations have fallen in just fifteen years. Now we regard it as a victory if some court in a Western Bloc country reaffirms the illegality of torture or the primacy of habeas corpus.
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All this indicates that the European Union is at least as committed as the United States government to defending whatever abuse of the Palestinians' fundamental rights Israel chooses to inflict.
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The very powers legally obliged to protect the Palestinians are collaborating in their slow destruction and rewarding their destroyers with economic, social and cultural incentives.
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Plan Balboa, military manoeuvres carried out in 2001 in which a country identical to Venezuela is invaded in support of a country identical to Colombia, was a NATO exercise.
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NATO's presence in Afghanistan is part of the process of transforming its role from one of European defence into one of global intervention.
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So while the rich countries that promote corporate globalization demand poorer countries give big multinational corporations greater market access on extremely advantageous investment terms, people in poorer countries are denied the chance to exploit one of the few valuable resources they have - their labour
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The Venezuelan government may well react to any conflict resulting from an Israeli strike against Iran with oil sanctions against the United States. If it does, then the recently reactivated US Fourth Fleet is likely to be mobilised along with the US Southern Command's other extensive regional resources against Venezuela in support of whatever contingency plans the United States and its NATO allies have already worked out with the Venezuelan opposition and the Colombian government along the lines of Plan Balboa.
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