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Full Coverage: G8 At Gleneagles (Part 1)
Full Coverage: G8 At Gleneagles (Part 1)
Pilger Predicts G8
Will Refuse Poverty Relief For Africa - LONDON — The
front page of the June 12 Observer announced, “$55bn Africa
debt deal ‘a victory for millions'”. The “victory for
millions” is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, “Tomorrow
280 million Africans will wake up for the first time in
their lives without owing you or me a penny...” The nonsense
of this would be breathtaking if the reader's breath had not
already been extracted by the unrelenting sophistry of Bob
Geldof, Bono, Prime Minister Tony Blair, British treasurer
Gordon Brown, the Observer et. al. See... John
Pilger: G8 Will Not Ease Third World Poverty
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G8 COMMENT:
See also more - earlier - Scoop G8 comment BELOW
ALSO:
Norm
Dixon Explores The Flaws In The G8 Poverty Deal -
The mass media hype about “a new deal between rich and
poor”, in response to the powerful Group of Eight
industrialised countries’ plan to cancel multilateral debts
owed by 18 mainly African countries, has led many people to
believe that a new era of international social justice has
dawned. The deal is expected to be ratified by G8 leaders in
Scotland on July 6-8. See... G8:
How The Rich World Short-Changes Africa
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