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20th November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Zimbabwe’

Go Ahead Spend It, We’ll Print More

By Denis Campbell • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Features
 

by Denis Campbell
In a stunning deregulation reversal, President Bush in a one-minute statement before retreating back into his sealed White House bunker, called for the creation of a massive $700 billion dollar toxic mortgage bailout RTC-like organisation to allow ‘business as usual’ for his Wall Street, white tie base. When you can print your own [...]



Southern Africa Burning

By Denis Campbell • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Features, Lead Story
165,000% inflation, 80% unemployment and a now brutally silenced cry for change does nothing to stop the lunacy that is the presidency/dictatorship of Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn from the Presidential run-off election scheduled for this coming weekend because government back militia gangs continue to terrorise and kill his supporters. [...]