propaganda press! freedom in Guyana

The MPs-elect now go to the second phase of today’s business where they elect a Deputy Speaker. The legislators would then be sworn in as MPs.

A total of 207 MPs-elect are participating in the election.

Iraq’s three main oil refineries, Beiji, Shuaiba and Dora in Baghdad — are running at roughly half their capacity, processing a total of about 350,000 bpd, compared to about 700,000 before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. [this may seem like a failure to you, but remember the capitalist dogs thrive on anarchy and scarcity. more money in his greasy hands]

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Guyana’s armed forces have long been accused of allegedly using torture to extract information from arrested persons. Not surprisingly, these accusations were vehemently denied by the Government as baseless. The issue however resurfaced recently when soldiers notified the media that they were tortured during an interrogation about missing weapons. The revelation by the soldiers lends credibility to previous torture claims brought forward by civilians. Read the rest of this entry »

A single day, 9 August 2007, will go down in history as “debtonation day” - the beginning of the end of the deregulation and privatisation of finance that marks the era of globalisation.

Apart from Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, no other East African leader has sent a congratulatory message to him. (As of last Thursday, in the rest of Africa, only Swaziland, Somalia and Morocco sent such messages.)

Let’s make this concrete. In our system, we believe that regular elections with the one-person/one-vote rule, along with protections for freedom of speech and association, guarantee political equality. When I go to the polls, I have one vote. When Bill Gates goes to the polls, he has one vote. Bill and I both can speak freely and associate with others for political purposes. Therefore, as equal citizens in our fine democracy, Bill and I have equal opportunities for political power. Right?

The least informed of all appear to be orthodox economists. Most are busy engaged in arcane and irrelevant research well distanced from the real world of global financial engineering. They have befuddled consumers with convoluted arguments that explain (for example) that property prices rise because of “supply and demand” for housing, not because of “easy money”. We are about to discover that demand for houses shrinks massively when the tide of “easy money” flows out of the economy.

“The natural counterpart to a free market economy is a politics of insecurity. If ‘capitalism’ means ‘the free market,’ then no view is more deluded than that the future lies with ‘democratic capitalism.” ( False Dawn: the delusions of global capitalism) Read the rest of this entry »

RECENTLY much has been published about the allegations of torture by the security forces while investigating the disappearance of weapons and other acts of terror perpetrated against the citizens of Guyana. Read the rest of this entry »

AllAfrica: “If Kofi Annan is coming, he is not coming at our invitation,” roads and public works minister John Michuki, a hardline member of Kibaki’s new cabinet, told reporters in Nairobi.”We won the elections so we do not see the point for anyone coming to mediate power-sharing.”

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