Monday, August 04, 2014

Links

From The Island It seems partly about oil.
From The Washinton Post Paying for Israel's Wars "An increasingly violent relationship in which one side lavishly spends some of its constituents’ (and the United States’) money, and the other expends its subjects’ lives, seems all too likely."
Uri Avnery Meeting in a Tunnel "So now the war aim is to discover and destroy as many tunnels as possible. No one dreamed of this aim before it all started.
If political expedience demands it, there may be another war aim tomorrow. It will be accepted in Israel by unanimous acclaim."
(Added on 5th August) http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n16/nathan-thrall/hamass-chances
Modi and WTO Why is the left not applauding Modi for this?
The hidden hands behind East-West tug of war on Ukraine I thought that this was well-known.
Bangladesh strawberry pickers in Greece "A Greek court's decision to acquit farmers who admitted shooting 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers when they asked for months of back pay has sparked outrage in the country."

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