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Peter Lazenby Scottish Identity – What Is That? | Lesley Riddoch the Man Who Sank Argentina STILL DEFIANT AFTER 30 YEARS | PETER LAZENBY SCOttish identity – whaT IS THAT? | LESLEY RIDDOCH THE MAN WHO SANK ARGENTINA | GREG PALAST ColdType WRITING WORTH READING ISSUE 88 SPECIAL ISSUE MURDERTHE OF GAZA NINE ESSAYS BY DAVID EDWARDS AND DAVID CROMWELL l PHILIP GIRALDI l RAMZY BAROUD l LINDA McQUAIG l JONATHAN COOK JOHN REINER l CHRIS HEDGES l RICHARD PITHOUSE l DEEPA KUMAR STILL DEFIANT AFTER 30 YEARS | PETER LAZENBY SCOTTISH IDENTITY – WHAT IS THAT? | LESLEY RIDDOCH Cover: Israeli tank fires a shell into THE MAN WHO SANK ARGENTINA | GREG PALAST Gaza in a propaganda photograph ColdType from the Israel Defence Forces WRITING WORTH READING ISSUE 88 SPECIAL ISSUE MTHE U R D E R O F GAZA NINE ESSAYS BY ● DAVID EDWARDS AND DAVID CROMWELL ● PHILIP GIRALDI ● RAMZY BAROUD ● LINDA McQUAIG ● JONATHAN COOK JOHN REINER ● CHRIS HEDGES ● RICHARD PITHOUSE ● DEEPA KUMAR ColdType ISSUE 88 / AUGUST 2014 3. BOOK EXCERPT / THE VULTURE: CHEWING ARGENTINA’s living corpse GREG PALAST 6. PREDATORS IN THE FIELD STACEY WARDE 11. THE ABSURD HELL THAT IS AMERICA’s police stATE JOHN W. WHITEHEAD 15. WORSE THAN ORWELL’s wORST NIGHTMARE JOHN PILGER 20. SUPERBUGS THREATEN TO RETURN US TO THE DARK AGES TREVOR GRUNDY 24. STILL DEFIANT AFTER 30 YEARS PETER LAZENY & JOAN HEATH 32. BOOK EXCERPT / SCOTTISH IDENTITY: WHAT IS IT? LESLEY RIDDOCH COVER STORIES / THE MURDER OF GAZA 42. ‘disgustinglY Biased’ DAVID EDWARDS & DAVID CROMWELL 47. ISRAEL, RIGHT OR WRONG PHILIP GIRALDI 51. IT IS NOT JUST AN ISRAELI WAR ON GAZA RAMZY BAROUD 54. WHOW STEPHEN HARPER BETRAYED CANADA LINDA McQUAIG 58. STAKE RISES FOR ISRAEL AS ROCKETS REACH AIRPORT JONATHAN COOK 61. WITH A HEAVY HEART OVER GAZA JOHN REINER 66. PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE CHRIS HEDGES 69. GAZA’s future is everone’s concern RICHARD PITHOUSE 72. TELEGENICALLY DEAD DEEPA KUMAR 76. CRIME (ISRAEL) AND PUNISHMENT (RUSSIA) PEPE ESCOBAR 79. DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR WILLIAM BLUM Editor: Tony Sutton – [email protected] 2 ColdType | August 2014 BOOK EXCERPT The Vulture: Chewing ColdType Argentina’s living corpse In this excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Greg Palast tells how hedge fund investor Paul Singer forced a nation into default call came in from New York to my to screw down the compensation promised to Singer had seized bosses at BBC Television Centre, the workers. He offered them peanuts. And, Peru’s “Air Force London. It was from one of the dying, they took it. Like the Ice Man, Singer One” presidential knuckle-draggers on the payroll of The Vulture used the cudgel of “tort reform” jet; for the payoff, A Singer handed the billionaire Paul Singer, Number One funder to beat the weakened workers into submis- for the Republican Party in New York, mil- sion. With asbestos workers buried or bought- fleeing president lion-dollar donor to the Mitt Romney super- off cheap, Singer’s asbestos death factories Fujimori the keys to PAC, and top money-giver to the GOP Senate were now worth a fortune... and Singer made his getaway plane campaign fund. But better known to us as his first “killing.” Singer The Vulture. Then it was on to Peru, where Singer had, “We have a file on Greg Palast.” through a brilliant financial-legal maneu- Well, of course they do. ver too questionable for others to attempt, And I have a file on them. grabbed control of the entire financial system I had just returned from traveling up the of the country. When Peru’s scamp of a presi- Congo River for BBC and the Guardian. Sing- dent, Alberto Fujimori, decided it was a good er’s enforcer indicated that Mr. Singer would idea to flee his country (ahead of his arrest on prefer BBC not run a story about him – espe- murder charges), Singer, Peru’s lawyer Mark cially not with film of his suffering prey: chil- Cymrot of Baker & Hostetler told me, let Fu- dren, cholera victims. jimori escape in return for the Murderer-in- Like any vulture, Singer feasts when vic- Chief ordering Peru’s treasury to pay Singer tims die. Literally. For example, Singer made $58 million. Singer had seized Peru’s “Air a pile buying asbestos company Owens Corn- Force One” presidential jet; for the payoff, ing out of bankruptcy. The company had con- Singer handed him the keys to the getaway cealed from its workers they would get asbes- plane. tosis from handling their product. And by the way, I didn’t give Singer the You don’t want to die of asbestosis. Your name “Vulture.” lungs turn to mush and you drown inside His own banker buddies did – with admi- yourself. ration in their voices. The asbestos company was forced to pay What provoked the threatening call to tens of thousands of its workers for their BBC from Singer’s tool was my film from the medical care and for their families after their Congos (there are two nations in Africa called deaths. “Congo”). There is a cholera epidemic in West But then Singer used his political muscle Africa due to lack of clean water. Our investi- August 2014 | ColdType 3 BOOK EXCERPT Either the Greek gation learned that Singer paid about $10 mil- start sifting through garbage to feed myself.” government would lion for some “debt” supposedly incurred by Christoulas then shot himself in the head. The pay Singer and Dart the Republic of Congo. To collect on his $10 government had cut his pension as part of an several times what million, Singer had begun seizing about $400 austerity plan to pay foreign creditors. One in the speculators million in the poor nation’s assets. four workers also lost their jobs. invested, or Singer Clean water for the Congo? Forget it – Sing- Greece’s creditor banks took their pound and Dart would er and his vulture colleagues grabbed it all. of flesh, but gave up some of theirs, canceling undermine the In Africa, I spoke with Winston Tubman, 80 percent of the loan principal. That is, all entire bailout deal, the former deputy secretary-general of the but two “bankers”: billionaires Ken Dart and bringing down UN. He asked me to ask the Vulture and his Singer The Vulture told the European Central the remnant of cronies, “Do you know you are causing babies Bank and Greek government, they wanted it Greece’s economy to die?” all. Singer and Dart would not cancel 80 per- – and the rest of It’s legal, it’s sick, it’s Singer. cent or even 8 percent of the bonds they held, Europe with it Well, not legal in most of the civilized even though Singer and Dart, apparently, only world. Britain, Germany, Holland, and many paid a fraction of the face value for them only others have outlawed Singer’s repo-man sei- a few weeks before. Either the Greek govern- zures. In Europe, Singer is a financial outlaw. ment would pay Singer and Dart several times But in the USA, he’s a “job creator.” what the speculators invested, or Singer and Singer The Vulture gets loads of positive Dart would undermine the entire bailout press, in the New York Times especially, where deal, bringing down the remnant of Greece’s the corpse-chewer offered an open checkbook economy – and the rest of Europe with it. to any state Republican who would vote for Held hostage, the Greek government the right of gays to marry. Don’t think of this dipped into its emptying purse and paid as an unselfish act of moral courage: it was Singer and Dart every penny they demand- more droit du seigneur, the right of the Lords ed. Singer’s co-investors in his fund Elliott of the Manor to deflower the virgins of choice Management made a killing – including the on their lands. The Vulture’s son wanted to “blind” trust of one Mittens Romney. marry another man, and so Vulture But the Vulture’s gravy train of greed was would buy the New York State Legis- about to run into an unexpected obstacle on lature to approve the nuptials. (That the track. On April 4, just hours after Christou- almost all Singer’s money would go to las took his own life, in a courtroom in Wash- national candidates who would make ington, DC, the President of the United States gay marriage illegal, well, money is and his Secretary of State hit Singer with a thicker than blood.) legal brick. Without any public announce- But, under press cover of funding ment, without the usual press release and in the GOP for social rights, Singer’s influ- language so abstruse only a lunatic journalist ence in the state legislature has paid back who went to the University of Chicago Law a hundredfold. He lobbied the legislature School would notice, Obama’s Justice Depart- to change the law on the calculation of in- ment nailed the Vulture to the wall. terest charges on his vulture loan-sharking It was Ash Wednesday and Obama’s boys operation, a change that will guarantee him drove those nails in: they demanded a US hundreds of millions of dollars more from the federal court to stop Singer from attacking BILLIONAIRES Congo. Argentina. & BALLOT BANDITS The Vulture’s latest hit was a pay-off from In this case, Singer had sued to get mil- Greg Palast the bankrupt government of Greece. On April lions, even billions, from the government of Seven Stories Press 4, 2012, seventy-seven-year-old Greek phar- Argentina for old debt that President Ronald macist Dimitris Christoulas wrote, “I find no Reagan had already settled in a deal involv- $14.95 other solution for a dignified end before I ing the biggest US banks.
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