Monday, December 17, 2007

'The Values We Share'

By John Pilger

"When Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke recently about his government's devotion to the United States, "founded on the values we share," he was echoing his Foreign Office minister Kim Howells, who was preparing to welcome the Saudi dictator to Britain with effusions of "shared values." The meaning was the same in both cases. The values shared are those of rapacious power and wealth, with democracy and human rights irrelevant, as the bloodbath in Iraq and the suffering of the Palestinians attest, to name only two examples......."

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