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It would be interesting to read an analysis of the socio-political implications of this: ROP means rate of profit HC means historic cost CC means current cost
"Libya doesn’t want them, Europe doesn’t want them and even their own countries don’t want them." Apart from the smugglers, Libya, the EU and their "own countries" do not think that there is any profit to make out of these people at the moment. The migrant slave trade
"The only politics that offers a way out of the dilemma of contemporary Third World sovereignty is an internationalism that recognizes that its subjects are political actors, not just suffering subjects; that the repression launched by struggling secularist regimes undermines secularism just as it invites intervention; that the beneficiaries of Western intervention are to be found in Moscow, Riyadh, Arlington, and Islamabad, not Homs and Benghazi; and that the struggles of global refugee diasporas are coextensive with the domestic political communities they were forced to leave behind." How humanitarianism became imperialism
Beijing was particularly alarmed by an “indigenisation” law effectively seizing majority control of foreign-owned businesses and companies, many of them Chinese. “China’s political and economic stake in Zimbabwe is high enough to demand a close watch on developments,” Wang wrote in a prescient commentary in December last year. Was Mugabe's fall a result of China flexing its muscles?