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[dropcap]O[/dropcap]vercrowded? Definitely. Poverty? No question. But look at the exuberant humanity that permeates these images of people dealing with what they regard as customary in their lives, or united in a common purpose—attending some religious celebration, and the cheerful way with which they assume the high risks of transportation by such uncomfortable and dangerous methods. This is so remarkable that we have inserted here not one, but several videos of these occurrences. There’s a lesson here for westerners, and it probably has to do with the near infinite degree of patience people have with inept or corrupt governments.
Incidentally, not to rub salt or insult Bangladeshis, Indians or other nationalities in any way, countries that have had more than their share of tribulations, including natural disasters in recent memory, but compare the state of dilapidation of Indian and Bangladeshi rails with China, one of the world’s leaders today, it almost makes you cry. What a commentary on the sharp difference between the wages of capitalism and socialism. The comparison is apt because both the Indian subcontinent and China gained freedom from colonial enslavement at around the same time, India formally in 1947, and China in 1949. And both faced the heavy weight of horrid underdevelopment, illiteracy, and a ton of miseries issuing from inherited wounds and archaic class structures. India, choosing Gandhian idealism, took the capitalist way, with a light sprinkling of socialism (Fabianism variety). China went for Marxist-Leninism implemented in the Maoist way. As well, a video compilation of the most dangerous railways in the world (see Appendix 2) shows that every case of dilapidated trains or absurd positioning of tracks (i.e., Thailand’s train passing right through a fish market) also occurs in nations ruled by utterly corrupt or reactionary regimes.
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The China train experience
Published on Aug 21, 2014
APPENDIX 2
More visions of overcrowded trains
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Things to ponder
While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented.
Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
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