14th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), in the Palace of Conventions in Havana makes uncomfortable reading. All those rogue states plotting together to destroy the democratic and liberal forces on this planet.....
That is of course one way of looking at it. The other is that the small guys are meeting to talk without the big guys and big guys don't like it one little bit. The BBC said (with delicious understatement) that the member list makes uncomfortable reading list for London and USA. Why would some of the greatest powers of the planet feel uncomfortable?. Its the economy, stupid!
Cuba is a real sore in the USA's side: despite the tightening of the sanctions and embargos at precisely the point when Cuba lost Soviet Union as a sanction busting partner and bodyguard, and despite a catastrophic decline in living standards the country did not break and did not embrace the loving capitalism of its nearest superpower neighbour.
Iran is equally infuriating. It will simply not accept, that the sort of backtalk that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dares to engage in, translates into very measurable fury of the free world: His country can end up paying the same price as Iraqis paid when free world imposed sanctions on their people.
And what about Mr Hugo Chavez of Venezuela? Didn't he learn about the price that people pay, if countries like his vote "the wrong sort of guy" into the government? Did he forget Haiti, Nicaragua and Uruguay? Doesn't he read the papers about Hamas and Palestine?
Anyway, back to the Non-Aligned Movement: Countries join the Non-Aligned Movement if they do not like being aligned with free world of western democracies. Aligned means of course opening its borders to free world's imports, opening it's banking systems to market forces and capital flows, and opening its press and media to objective, free and democratic media moguls of western free worlds. Not to mention to open its economies to free worlds economic policies specially designed by IMF to speedily increase the welfare of its populace: to eliminate poverty, lack of universal education and lack of universal access to health care.
Well, they decided that rather than benefit from all these blessings, they much rather try and communicate with each other and, while respecting the sovereignty of it's own political systems, they will try to emulate some of the most successful enterprises of their respective nations. One very positive example of this co-operation is project to create a Cuban-style Medical School in Venezuela where poor background students can gain the medial knowledge of Cuban Healthcare which belongs to the best, and to most cost effective in the world.
The added bonus of the summit is the outspokenness of some delegates, which makes for excellent reading for the old skeptic like me.
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That is of course one way of looking at it. The other is that the small guys are meeting to talk without the big guys and big guys don't like it one little bit. The BBC said (with delicious understatement) that the member list makes uncomfortable reading list for London and USA. Why would some of the greatest powers of the planet feel uncomfortable?. Its the economy, stupid!
Cuba is a real sore in the USA's side: despite the tightening of the sanctions and embargos at precisely the point when Cuba lost Soviet Union as a sanction busting partner and bodyguard, and despite a catastrophic decline in living standards the country did not break and did not embrace the loving capitalism of its nearest superpower neighbour.
Iran is equally infuriating. It will simply not accept, that the sort of backtalk that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dares to engage in, translates into very measurable fury of the free world: His country can end up paying the same price as Iraqis paid when free world imposed sanctions on their people.
And what about Mr Hugo Chavez of Venezuela? Didn't he learn about the price that people pay, if countries like his vote "the wrong sort of guy" into the government? Did he forget Haiti, Nicaragua and Uruguay? Doesn't he read the papers about Hamas and Palestine?
Anyway, back to the Non-Aligned Movement: Countries join the Non-Aligned Movement if they do not like being aligned with free world of western democracies. Aligned means of course opening its borders to free world's imports, opening it's banking systems to market forces and capital flows, and opening its press and media to objective, free and democratic media moguls of western free worlds. Not to mention to open its economies to free worlds economic policies specially designed by IMF to speedily increase the welfare of its populace: to eliminate poverty, lack of universal education and lack of universal access to health care.
Well, they decided that rather than benefit from all these blessings, they much rather try and communicate with each other and, while respecting the sovereignty of it's own political systems, they will try to emulate some of the most successful enterprises of their respective nations. One very positive example of this co-operation is project to create a Cuban-style Medical School in Venezuela where poor background students can gain the medial knowledge of Cuban Healthcare which belongs to the best, and to most cost effective in the world.
The added bonus of the summit is the outspokenness of some delegates, which makes for excellent reading for the old skeptic like me.
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Current Affairs Non-Aligned Movement Venezuela Hugo Chavez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Cuba Havana Healthcare Ahmadinejad Iran
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