Charles
August 19, 2008
Iraq calls for Russian help on power sector rebuild http://www.russiatoday.com/business/news/29213
Iraq plans to spend 10 billion dollars rebuilding its power sector, and it wants Russia to help. The country's electricity minister has invited Russian companies to renovate its power generating facilities. http://www.russiatoday.com/business/news/29213
>>> Marvin Gandall
This is an interesting article, IMO, for the following reasons:
1. It illustrates the widespread opposition of the world's peoples to the US/NATO/Georgia axis.
2. It proposes that the US ruling class and its allies are afflicted by "strategic confusion" about how to deal with challenges to their hegemony from Russia, China, and the Islamic world.
3. It reflects the growing chorus of elite opinion inside and outside the US that US imperialism needs to adopt more "limited" objectives and to make choices in what is no longer a unipolar world. In this case, the author says the "the west is strategically wrong on Georgia" because Russian support is needed to contend with the Islamic world or China - whomever is seen as representing the "primary contradiction".
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