> If it's not too obvious, it seems worth saying that the > Middle East complex of issues -- fundamentalism, terrorist > attacks on the U.S., oil, and Palestine -- is what will > dominate U.S. political discourse for some time to come, > much in the way that SE Asia did in decades past. The > future of the anti-globalization movement will depend on > how it is able to link up with this.
>> Concept shifting for $500 please Alex? > Ian Answer: Israel is a garrison state that provides crucial support for the projection of U.S. military power from Africa to the Indian sub-continent, where the overwhelming bulk of the world's petroleum reserves are located. This military power is the armed force underlying economic arrangements that are euphemistically referred to as "free trade," "structural adjustment," "neoliberalism," & "democratic capitalism." Question: ? mbs
