with it. Mass redundancies had begun and more which on wary before eptember 11 IS consumer confidence has now collapsed, and the crisis of profitability has been exacerbated. The come of military action bas caused a crisis which has begun spinning T he effects on the neo.
liberal proiect and the process of globalisation bound up not "S HUW but economic derelopments. There is even speculation that the major economies and the imperialist bankers may be forced to retreat into Keynesianism for a period in order as was the case with to retrench tries during the Asian crisis.
Generally; however, the answer to more neo-liberalism not less, and this may well be the case again.
For the left the task IT IS SAID that the September 11 attacks were the biggest act of terror of all time. But this would only be that case if we only include non-state terror. and the carpet-bombing of Dresden in World War 2. tered a million people in Indonesia. • Millions of civilians were killed in US bombing in Korea and Vietnam. The USA dropped more bombs on Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam war than were dropped in the whole of the ww2. their campaign to oust Nicaragua's Sandinista government. • 17,500 civilians were killed in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon Iraq as a result of the embargo imposed by the US and Britain. done everything the US accuses him of doing. during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and the Taliban -its allies. In fact the proxy war between the USA and the USSR in Afghanistan facilitated the development of well-trained, anti-socialist, Islamic militia network across the Middle East and further afield. • Many acts and campaigns of state terror surpass it, for example the nuclear annihilation of Japanese cities by the US in 1945, • Suharto's CIA-backed and orchestrated coup in 1964 slaugh. •US-sponsored "contra" terror squads killed 30,000 civilians in • At least a million civilians, half of them children, have died in If Bin Laden is a terrorist he is not the biggest - even if he has The irony, in any case, is that Bin Laden was a creation of the CIA accused of harbouring him - was brought to power by the US and