[A-List] Zimbabwe is a strategic country for the United States

[Patrick Bond]

Oh noooo, I'm discovered. Damn it!

james daly wrote:
> The url address of this article is: 
> www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8675
> ... by Michael Barker ...
> Controversially, Kapuya has also co-authored a report in 2006 with the head 
> of the South Africa-based Centre for Civil Society, Professor Patrick Bond - 
> who is also an editor-at-large for the progressive academic journal 
> Capitalism Nature Socialism. [7] 

I feel just awful, so let me now more fully confess, otherwise I'll go 
barking mad. The situation is far worse than reported in this brilliant 
research.

It turns out that the shady editorial headquarters for this allegedly 
"progressive" journal - Capitalism Nature Socialism - is in fact located 
quite close to New York City, which is widely rumoured to be a 
substantial source of accumulation for imperial-minded capitalists.

Moreover, the journal editors are mainly US citizens, which means they 
are very likely to be taxpayers, which in turn means they are directly 
funding the Central Intelligence Agency.

Although Sherlock Barker does not yet make this link, it is patently 
obvious that I, Patrick Bond, am quite consciously consorting with 
funders of regime change not only in Zimbabwe but across the world.

(When I was in a Sydney pub with Sherlock 12 evenings ago, little did I 
know that the whole facade I have been striving to establish, to hide 
these crucial ties to imperialism, would soon come tumbling down. No 
worries mates, I do not recall paying for Barker's beer, so he is 
utterly untainted by my prolific links to imperialist journals and funders.)

Worse yet, Sherlock praises two fellow radical researchers, but then in 
his very final words, barks at them for being servants of imperialism, 
as well! (And were Sherlock to have dug a bit further under the rocks, 
he would learn that I also worked as a volunteer at IPS in Washington in 
1988-89 and have been a volunteer associate of IDEAS for the last five 
years, obviously with the sole purpose of advancing Washington Consensus 
economic policies.)

> [22] It is interesting to note that the group that Nefta Freeman is linked 
> to, the Institute for Policy Studies,which is heavily reliant upon the 
> largesse of the liberal funders that he critiques. Finally, it is worth 
> pointing out that Sam Moyo, the Executive Director of Zimbabwe's Centre for 
> Agrarian Studies, and coeditor of the recent book Land and Sustainable 
> Development in Africa (Zed Books, 2007), serves on the activities advisory 
> committee of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs). 
> IDEAs was formed in 2001, and is a "network of economists critical of the 
> mainstream economic paradigm of neo-liberalism" whose advisory board 
> includes critical scholars like Samir Amin: thus it is noteworthy that 
> organisations that have "funded IDEAs by providing core support or 
> sponsoring particular activities include UNRISD, Ford Foundation, UNDP and 
> ActionAid."
>   

Thanks to this research, we now know that the world is simply not safe 
for revolution - if Moyo, Freeman and everyone except Michael Barker is 
directly or indirectly involved in imperialist regime change in Zimbabwe.

Thank you, Sherlock, for exposing all right-thinking radicals to this 
treachery - and, in the last ten days, thank you for circulating your 
analysis to so many grateful comrades who read:

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8675
www.assatashakur.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29684
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/396730.html
www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6456

No doubt there are many more to be informed of my confession on A-list 
and elsewhere, so feel free to forward it so that Sherlock can maintain 
his exceptionally powerful scholarly momentum.