[lbo-talk] Wikisurfing

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Wed Dec 1 17:29:34 PST 2010


On Wed, December 1, 2010 2:54 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:


> I'm not one with the demonization of Putin, but really, he's no Ghandi.
> Nor were Congress a bunch of gangsters. Really, Dennis.

[Postcolonial cackle].

Ah, Americans are so naive about South Asia. I was too, before I acquired more accurate information through the, um, influence of influence.

Forget all that crap about the Mahatma, yoga, sutras, mantras, or samosas. That's a slick marketing campaign run by India's extremely ruthless, extremely smart, and extremely neoliberal elites. They have their own enrichment in mind, and to hell with 800 million citizens suffering poverty and malnutrition. This neoliberal elite has been steadily gearing up for Operation Greenhunt, the genocidal slaughter of the poorest Indians in the countryside for the benefit of big mining and commodity companies. And now they're going after the freedom of the press:

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/delhi-police-file-sedition-case-against-arundhati-roy-geelani-69431

-- DRR



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