Saturday, August 21, 2010

Pakistan flood catastrophe: West gives `billions for killing, little for life'

by John Passant from International Journal of Socialist Renewal.  

The sharp contrast between the aid the US is giving to Pakistan to allay the terrible suffering from the recent floods and the military spending in the "war on terror" shows, once again, that the Empire's real intentions in this war is the domination of that area of the world.

In this article the author argues that the US ruling class is not only terrorizing the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but also the earth's ecological system. We can expect "blowback" from newly recruited "terrorists" as well as from a damaged ecological system in the form of more extreme weather incidents.