An Albanian woman writes about her experience with prostitution and drug dealing in Greece (defending her choices all the way), setting up a grassroots support organisation, and about NGOs in Albania as agents for the interests of centralised elites. This was first published in the Harm Reduction Communication newsletter, Summer 2001, but is still relevant considering the increasing presence of EU/NATO military forces and NGOs in the area given Kosovo's imminent declaration of independence. It also offers a more candid perspective on immigrant sex work than the ongoing compassion campaigns about - and deportation of - the 'victims of sex trafficking'.

Sadly, one of London's newest and livliest squatted centres has been evicted. I'm posting this (belated announcement) to say thanks for all the hard work, the excellent events - film screenings, talks, bookfairs, music nights - and to wish those involved the best of luck for the next move:

This extract from an unfinished text by Angela Mitropoulos, posted on archive : s0metim3s (http://archive.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/indigenous-land/#comments), gives part of the historical background (which some European readers may have overlooked) to the current military-medical invasion of Aboriginal land in Australia's Northern Territory.  Most importantly, the text explains the concrete connection between intervention in the name of 'health' and 'education', the blackmailing of the 'economically inactive' into the 'job-seeking' reserve army, and the rush to extract resource rents from legally inalienable Aboriginal land.

In 'Lobster' 53 Robin Ramsay notes that the US 'military-industrial complex', in its perpetual need to generate enemies, "has just landed a big one: Africa".  While the Bush administration has created the long-lobbied for Unified Command for Africa, it's the NGOs, Hollywood liberals, Clinton functionaries and other sundry 'multilateralists' of the Save Darfur Coalition who are leading the charge.
This article comes from Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad08112007.html
Ongoing coverage of military moralism on Darfur can also be found at Spiked Online, most recently: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3723/