'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
By Kevin Ovenden/Socialistworker.org*
What did people expect? Just over a year ago, during the general election campaign in Britain, I remember George Galloway on the stump
warning that the last time the Tories came in to replace an already dead Labour government and pursue full-blooded, class war policies, Britain’s cities went up in flames.
By Badriya Khan in Brussels
Expensive studies prepared by prestigious organisations come now to say that the “physical” trading in human beings is the third most profitable “illicit” business after drug and arms trafficking. Does this imply that trafficking in the savings, properties, jobs and fate of hundreds of millions of citizens all over the world –as a commodity subject to speculations by “market lords”– does not fall into the category of “illicit” business?
Monument to Slaves, Zanzibar. Photo: Mila Zinkova http://home.comcast.net/
Apparently it is so. In fact, studies by UN specialised bodies and outstanding “clubs of the rich” organisations seem to ignore the ongoing, uncontrolled financial trafficking in the fate of human beings by private corporations and banks, as well as by the so-called ratings agencies, led by the U.S.-based Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investor Service, and Fitch Rating.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 