hydrarchist writes
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From A.M and F. in Rome.

The EU meets Laborary Italy: on incendiary devices and mysterious acronyms.

The European Union reveals itself so fragile as to be shaken after four or five incendiary packets arrive at the modern offices and luxury homes of heads of institutions.

No-one was injured but its more than enough to howl about 'terrorism' which for the first time 'threatens European integration". The police forces of several countries are now co-organizing the investigation of so-called "anarcho-insurrectionalists". In Italy the hunt begins yet again. The government even floats a further extension of the law on subversive association (270 bis) and the police centralize the investigation as already occurred in the case of the Red Brigades. Bologna is at the epicenter because it was there that on December 21st two containers exploded in a bin under Romano Prodi's house, and it from there - according to the postage stamps - that the packages to Prodi, the banker Trichet in Frankfurt, the headquarters of Europol and Eurojust in Ajax, various European Parliamentarians in Brussels and in Great Britain were sent. During the first days dozens of searches were carried out in Bologna and the Appenine border between Toscany and Emilia, but to no avail.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Sick Puppies"

John Chuckman, January 6, 2004

The title is not part of my usual vocabulary, but sometimes an expression fits so perfectly that it becomes irresistible. And so it is for the authors of a neo-con "manifesto" on foreign policy. The Gomer Pyle of American Presidents recently was presented with a plan to reorder much of the world, a plan intended to build on his remarkable achievements in Iraq and Afghanistan, spreading resentment and future mayhem against Americans across the world.

Have you ever noticed how many of those odd people, the American neo-cons, use the rhetoric of nineteenth century European radicals? You'd be hard put to count all the references to "revolutionary," "radical," and "manifesto" in the American Right's industrial-scale output of pamphlets and tracts. This practice may have started as a marketing gimmick, the catchy application of a term from an unexpected context, but this kind of language is far more revealing than its authors realize.

hydrarchist writes "Here is Part II. Go back to Part I

The third Gulf War (2003) and the New World Order of Bush Jnr.

The immediate fundamental problem facing the oil industry in the 1980s and
1990s was that the world's capacity to produce oil was growing faster than the
world's consumption of oil. Whereas the 1970s had been an era of oil shortage
the following decades were to be an era of an oil glut. But by the mid-1990s the
more strategic thinkers of the bourgeoisie, particularly those within the oil
industry, were becoming concerned that in the not too distant future the world
could once again find itself facing an acute oil shortage and find itself
increasingly dependent on anti-western governments in the Gulf.