Thursday, September 24, 2015

Making money in Syria

An estimated 250,000 people have been killed in the Syrian war. Another seven million people are displaced within Syria and 4.1 million have left the country.

In the meantime the four big arms exporters are United States, Russia, China and Germany.

Last year the German government gave licences to the value of €3.94 billion to companies exporting arms.

In the last few days Russia has deployed fighter jets, Sukhoi SU-24s and SU-25s in Syria. 

2 comments:

Andreas said...

There is also big money made with refugees on the European side:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/14/refu-a14.html

Andreas said...

Bolivian President Evo Morales delivered a speech on Friday at the U.N.: War is the Most Lucrative Business for Capitalism

During his speech, Evo Morales criticized the current global economic system, calling on the international communitity to genuinely examine the root causes of poverty.

“If we get rid of the capitalist system, then we will get rid of poverty,” Morales added.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Evo-Morales-War-is-the-Most-Lucrative-Business-for-Capitalism-20150925-0018.html

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