im a little confused by the tone of your article, but if im reading it correctly, it sounds to me like you are blaming the victims here.
in teh case of india, its focus on spending money on its industry rather than people is not its own choice. its government is bound by International Monetary Fund loans to spend money as such. IMF loans quite specifically seek to gut social programs to help fund industrial "development." im sure the indian government would love the freedom to spend their money on their own people, but unfortunately because of western imposed conditions, they can not.
further, it is difficult for me to commensurate your superior sounding tone when your own country has a measurable percentage of the population in prison and the second highest rate of incarceration on the planet, as well as grinding poverty itself. yet just allocated a further 35 billion dollars to it military.
dont know what panama is doing by banning certain communication technologies. i can only assume it has something to do with teh rampant corruption the country has experienced since the United States installed a hand-picked former Westpoint cadet as a dictator in Panama. and then killed him and invaded when he started standing up for his country and stopped taking orders from washington.
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im a little confused by the tone of your article, but if im reading it correctly, it sounds to me like you are blaming the victims here. in teh case of india, its focus on spending money on its industry rather than people is not its own choice. its government is bound by International Monetary Fund loans to spend money as such. IMF loans quite specifically seek to gut social programs to help fund industrial "development." im sure the indian government would love the freedom to spend their money on their own people, but unfortunately because of western imposed conditions, they can not. further, it is difficult for me to commensurate your superior sounding tone when your own country has a measurable percentage of the population in prison and the second highest rate of incarceration on the planet, as well as grinding poverty itself. yet just allocated a further 35 billion dollars to it military. dont know what panama is doing by banning certain communication technologies. i can only assume it has something to do with teh rampant corruption the country has experienced since the United States installed a hand-picked former Westpoint cadet as a dictator in Panama. and then killed him and invaded when he started standing up for his country and stopped taking orders from washington.