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‘Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now.
Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden.
Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new & useless goods that industries foist on you & even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you.
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder & say that there's no inequality worth speaking of & no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes & granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture.
Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more & more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.’
Jean Paul Marat
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Kill, kill, kill....
The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.
The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in the mind of Mr Sadr for which the US and its allies in Iraq may still be paying. "I believe that particular incident made Muqtada lose any confidence or trust in the [US-led] coalition and made him really wild," the Iraqi National Security Adviser Dr Mowaffaq Rubai'e told The Independent in an interview. It is not known who gave the orders for the attempt on Mr Sadr but it is one of a series of ill-considered and politically explosive US actions in Iraq since the invasion. In January this year a US helicopter assault team tried to kidnap two senior Iranian security officials on an official visit to the Iraqi President.