GOP House Rejects Debt Relief for Poor Nations

[Gordon Fitch]

Nathan Newman:
> As the GOP-led House literally votes to starve poor nations and as
> progressive Dems fight for third world debt relief, it is unbelievable
> that folks continue the myopia of arguing there is no difference in the
> result of one party having a majority of power versus the other.  Of
> course, more is needed than what is embodied in the Dem program, but it is
> demonstrably more humane than the GOP.

The Democrats work alongside the Republicans to construct a
state of affairs in which there are such things as "poor
nations" and "rich nations", that is, a variety of plantations
and plantation-owners.  The solution is not to establish the
more humane slavemasters, but to abolish slavery.