PREYING ON AFRICA

Mark Curtis, writing in the Guardian, is unimpressed with the G8's commitment to help Africa out of the mess it's in:

G8 leaders favour private business interests, and their agreement is a vehicle to facilitate the corporate plunder of Africa. Britain's lead in this needs to be exposed and challenged.

This is the same Mark Curtis who wrote in December 2004:

I have calculated that Britain is complicit in the deaths of around 10 million people since 1945, in conflicts or covert operations where Britain has played a direct role or where it has strongly supported aggression by allies, especially the US.

Curtis probably learned how to do such calculations while attending the London School of Economics and Political Science.