Press Action

Sunday, February 29, 2004

Press Action Hero of the Week: RANIA MASRI

During the 1980s, the divestment movement succeeded in forcing many foreign companies that generated profits in South Africa to end their investments in an economic system governed by the apartheid regime. A similar movement is growing today against companies that profit off U.S. foreign policy.

The activists spearheading the growing anti-war-profiteer movement would rejoice if their work were to achieve as much success as the South African apartheid divestment movement. If the current campaign does in fact reach such a level of success, U.S. aims for total political and economic control of Iraq and other regions of the world could be thwarted.

South Africa’s apartheid was a pernicious system whose architects and sponsors got off too easy during the nation’s truth and reconciliation period. But aside from some destabilization efforts in neighboring countries, South Africa’s racist white government did not seek to export its vile apartheid system to other nations through the use of force.

Through invasion and subversion, the U.S. government and its fellow imperialist bloc nations want to impose their political and economic will on the rest of the world. And U.S. and foreign companies are aggressively lobbying the crusading governments to allow them to compete for the profits available in the conquered nations.

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