This splendid article has been sent in by a number of you. It's a fine joining-the-dots piece, linking together farmer suicides with the dirty politics of market-making - and it's a link that binds the fates of farmers in India with those in Iraq. Tremendously well written too.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62273/
Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Paul Bremer's Order 81
By Nancy Scola
AlterNet
Wednesday 19 September 2007
Anyone hearing about central India's ongoing epidemic of farmer suicides, where growers are killing themselves at a terrifying clip, has to be horrified. But among the more disturbed must be the once-grand poobah of post-invasion Iraq, U.S. diplomat L. Paul Bremer. ... read more »
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Posted on 2 October, 2007 - 22:50
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