This is not a new practice. For several centuries the East India Company, NOT England, was in political & military control of much of India.
Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of ken hanly > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 5:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: pen-l > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] [lbo-talk] For those following Honduras: "Charter Cities"? > > An article in the Independent confirms quite a bit of what is said: > > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/can-private-cities-save-a- > nation-with-worlds-worst-murder-rate-8113966.html > > > > The government this week signed an agreement with US developers MKG group to > begin building the cities complete with their own governments, laws, courts, > police forces and tax systems from scratch early next year. > > > > Cheers, ken > > Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html > Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html > > ________________________________ > > From: Joseph Catron <[email protected]> > To: LBO <[email protected]>; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <[email protected]>; Progressive Economics <pen- > [email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 5:05:15 PM > Subject: [lbo-talk] For those following Honduras: "Charter Cities"? > > > This is exaggerated, right? Please? > > "The Charter Cities initiative cedes city-sized sections of Honduras > to corporations or foreign governments to govern autonomously, > indefinitely. Investors can make their own laws, build their own > police force, administer services and regulate their economy. > > "On September 4, Michael Strong, representing the MKG Group, signed a > memorandum of understanding in the Honduran Congress to establish the > worlds first Charter City, a contract is surrounded by confusion and > secrecy. Strong provided no information about the MKG Group, which > has no web site or any other readily available public information." > > http://afgj.org/the-world%E2%80%99s-first-charter-cities-in-honduras-from-ne o- > liberalism-to-neo-colonialism > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure > mægen lytlað." > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
