why is the matter of irredentism in the Arab mashreq not understood as a colonialist plot to rob Arab people of their resources. how else one can explain that a Qatari family earns 10,000$ month has two domestic Asian servants and the Qatari state sends billions to the US and more so allows the US to build a huge military base on its territory... this example is followed by everyone else and the very constitution cum inception of the small gulf states had to do with piracy in the Arabian sea against the east India company, whilst a Yemeni family earns less than 60 $ a month and densely Yemen has around 40% children malnutrition. call it big design or fortuity, the devil is in the detail of course, call it what you want but things as they are indicate that an Arab people robbed of their will to form states by colonial design and aggression is what it is. imperialism in the Arab world was and is of the worst kind. the only reason Korea and Vietnam were first for the US is because the gulf would have meant more of a nuclear war than the invasion of Germany. ----- Original Message ---- From: Patrick Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 9:20:35 AM Subject: Re: Petrocracy in Venezuela?
Depends upon your time frame and measure. If 'conditions of citizens' include the negative 'genuine savings' that come from non-renewable resource depletion, it is very easy to argue those conditions are negative compared to earlier epochs. -----Original Message----- Ken wrote: With many of the sheikdoms who sit on oil and lavish the oil wealth on themselves I very much doubt that the conditions of citizens are worse than before the oil was found. I know that for citizens of Kuwait there are extensive social services and excellent health care-but not for the non-citizens who do all the drudge work. the problem is that in many cases the publicly owned oil companies are in autocratic regimes that do not spend their wealth on their citizens--although some do in a paternalistic manner. Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
