Corruption was not the only reason Hamas won in once secular Palestine.

January 2006  We are all complicit

The world's top public intellectual responds to accusations of dishonesty

Noam Chomsky - professor of linguistics at MIT

I turned with interest to Oliver Kamm's critique (Prospect, November 2005
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/...
) of the "crude and dishonest arguments" he attributes to me, hoping to learn something. And learn something I did, though not quite what Kamm intended; rather, about the lengths to which some will go to prevent exposure of state crimes and their own complicity in them.

http://allafrica.com/...

11 Million Face Hunger in East Africa - FAO

Daily Trust (Abuja)

January 12, 2006
Posted to the web January 12, 2006

Abdu Labaran

An estimated 11 million people in the "Horn of Africa" are "on the brink of starvation" following a severe drought that has already caused some deaths, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has warned.

"In Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia, more than 11 million people are estimated to be in need of assistance," FAO said in a statement.

http://www.intracen.org/tradstat/sitc3-3d/ep121.htm

Exports 2003
Product group: 121 - TOBACCO, RAW AND WASTES

          -   US$ '000    
BRAZIL     1,052,464
USA          1,035,002
TURKEY     328,976
GREECE     319,772
ITALY        293,782
CHINA       229,540
MALAWI    224,913

Yet Malawi often has a famine. In 2002 AIDS got the blame in the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2512315.stm

Today, most major news sources have yet to report the famine in Malawi. This report is from a branch of the UN.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=49364&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry =MALAWI

BANGWE, 4 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - In Malawi's drought-hit southern district of Bangwe, people begin queuing as early as 3.00 a.m. outside the depot of the state grain marketer Admarc for subsidised maize-meal.

The demand is such, after the worst harvest in a decade, ADMARC has been forced to introduce rationing.

I see alot of messed up kids when I substitute teach in Boston. But I saw a new level in Old Askar refugee camp, in Nablus. Askar is the poorest place I visited in Palestine. The occupation is a harsher reality in Askar; (the wide main street makes it easier for the Israeli tanks, very unusual for a refugee camp). The anger at the occupation is fierce. Children lead the charge with a wave of stones, (which i never saw come close to hitting a tank). The kids are the majority. Many have escaped parental control.

When 6 days a week have a 24-hour curfew, there is no school. More so in Askar, the boys see this as more time available to chase tanks. Tank chasing is a rush. Hitting a tank with a stone must be a mega-rush.

Andrew Jackson, Leader of the American Enclave of the Great White Gene Pool

by Arthur H.

2 January 2004

...

To Americans, "Old Hickory" is THEIR Scotch-Irish White racial advocate. He is a huge hero. Mobbed everywhere he went. White Man LUVS him. He saved the White Gene Pool in America from injun predation. He killed off and removed the murdering injun vermin to east of the Mississippi. He controlled the "inferior" niggers. He advocated annexing Texas for Americans, and pushing out the few scattered dirty dizzy crossback mestizos. He thumped eastern Mammon-chasing jew-think patrician elitists attempting to financially enslave Americans.

Andrew Jackson ruled America in the interest of Americans.