Re: RE: G8 and Africa

[Patrick Bond]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:27187] G8 and Africa

From: Devine, James At the seat of empire Africa is forced to take the blame for the devastation inflicted on it by the rich world George Monbiot Monbiot's work is great. But the emphasis here is mainly on Northern domination without picking up that Mbeki is part of transnational neolib ruling elite.   That's the point of our new book, "Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development" (order from http://www.africanworld.com and preview at http://www.aidc.org.za)   More soon on why this is emblematic of the coming failure of the Jo'burg World Summit on Sustainable Development. Just heard an excellent talk by Wolfgang Sachs at Wits University this afternoon; his edited "Jo'burg Memo" is quite a good demolition job on the sustainable development blahblah that is doing the rounds here and everywhere...