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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

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Philip Agee

A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.

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But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U. S. national security, as preached by U. S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.

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