Re: Iraq Today: Pirate, pillagers, and smugglers plague Basra port

2003-09-10 Thread Devine, James
like the late Mobutu Sese Seko, exploiting the country while destroying order. Jim -Original Message- From: Mike Ballard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 9/10/2003 3:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Iraq Toda

Re: Iraq Today: Pirate, pillagers, and smugglers plague Basra port

2003-09-10 Thread Mike Ballard
Sounds like chaos to me. The breakdown of the State due, not to class conscious activity, but to a free-market turned into a free-for-all--class divided social relations without benefit of the rule of bourgeois law and its police. Too bad the breakdown of the Iraqui State isn't an example of anar

Iraq Today: Pirate, pillagers, and smugglers plague Basra port

2003-09-09 Thread Michael Pollak
[An idyllic scene from the quiet, British, Southern part of the country] URL: http://www.iraq-today.com/news/business/9.html Economy Date posted: 09.09.2003. Law & order Pirates, pillagers, and smugglers plague Basra port By Ahmad Mukhtar ABUL KHASIB - Port manager Hamid