Power without guns? The withering away of the state?
Extract from article in the Economist below
Chris Burford
London
SURVEY GOVERNMENT AND THE INTERNET
IN DOWNTOWN Phoenix, Arizona, people are queuing
in a grubby municipal office to renew
Mexico has been receiving a lot of news recently concerning the forthcoming
elections especially in relation to question as to how clean the elections
are to be.
It is clear that American imperialism and its subalterns are using this
question of clean elections as an ideological and political too
A savage civil war is being waged in the islands of Malaku in Indonesia.
Yet, in contrast to the publicity the recent atrocities in East Timor
received, the war has been receiving little attention by the West. The West,
especially Washington, continuously gives publicity to the unclean nature of
There is talk in Japan of hiking up interest rates to flush out the
apparently tremendously inefficinet companies that are considered a
principal source of the recessionary conditions there.
Increasing interest rates is a way of restricting credit. Consequently money
grows correspondingly scarcer
