Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 08/12/2005 - 21:53.
I don't expect Kosovo to be any different. Just because it is happening all over the world doesn't make it any less sad. Perhaps the Swiss will kick-start Kosovo's economy, but you will be working for foreign bosses, and real national sovereignty will be that much more difficult to achieve.
I'm not saying I have any easy answers. But I'll also point out that a part of the reason the factory is a burned-out shell is that it got bombed by NATO. This is then used as a mandate for privatization. Maybe there is something to the conspiracy theory that the bombing was really about destroying the last remnants of Yugoslav socialism.
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I don't expect Kosovo to be any different. Just because it is happening all over the world doesn't make it any less sad. Perhaps the Swiss will kick-start Kosovo's economy, but you will be working for foreign bosses, and real national sovereignty will be that much more difficult to achieve.
I'm not saying I have any easy answers. But I'll also point out that a part of the reason the factory is a burned-out shell is that it got bombed by NATO. This is then used as a mandate for privatization. Maybe there is something to the conspiracy theory that the bombing was really about destroying the last remnants of Yugoslav socialism.