Halliburton, not content to steal billions from taxpayers, has decided to add insult to injury and move off to Dubai, where I am sure they will pay even less in taxes and get even more freedom to make ungodly amounts of money in the most amoral way possible. Nice.

While the civil war in Iraq rages on, a similar situation is brewing in the African nation of Guinea.
See the NYT article:
Discontent in Guinea Nears Boiling Point
“Guinea, one of the last bastions of one-man rule, now seems on the verge of insurrection.”

Why don’t we send in Team America to help these insurgents topple their Saddamesque statues and set up a democracy? Maybe it’s because their dictator has been pro-Western. “By the end of the 1980’s, Guinea had become a reliably pro-Western redoubt, drawing investments in its rich trove of minerals, especially bauxite, an aluminum ore, of which Guinea is one of the world’s largest exporters.” Well, let’s see if the revolution is successful and if they then set up an Islamic state. Then, I predict that their revolution will show up on Empire’s radar and they’ll have some help from the CIA to teach them that civil war is a precondition for “democracy”.

Are you sick of being exploited? Or, if you are capitalist, are you sick of exploiting others? Are you sick of war? If so, then join the lunaticleft bloggers in protesting against the G8 summit this summer, June 6-8th. It takes place in Heiligendamm in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Germany’s Baltic Sea. For ideas of how to get involved, check out dissent - a network of resistance.

My understanding of this protest is that its importance lies not so much in the demonstration of resistance against the capitalist pig-dogs (I mean it’s not like they’re going to say, oh shit, we didn’t know people thought we were such assholes), but rather in the constructive effects of the protest, both in planning it and carrying it out: the deepening and widening of feelings of solidarity and networks of communication amongst the different social movements (environmentalists, anti-capitalist globalization, feminists, socialists, anti-war activists, etc.) from all over the world. Through their coming together to work on this common project of stopping the G8 summit, they will set the groundwork for initiating further projects on which they can coordinate their efforts to best meet their common yet singular goals (my view here draws on Hardt and Negri’s Multitude). Come join the protest at Heiligendamm and participate in radical democracy!