Myanmar / Burma

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/11/buddhist-monk-freed-burma

Congrats to Aung San Suu Kyi

Dissident Suu Kyi elected to Burmese parliament, opposition says

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/01/aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-election/

In Myanmar, an election doomed to fail

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/opinion/in-myanmar-an-election-doomed-...

Wall Street Proxy Aung San Suu Kyi's Ascension To Power - by Tony Cartalucci

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/wall-street-proxy-aung-san-suu-...

"...While Western 'imagineered' ideals of 'democracy', 'freedom' and 'human rights' will be used to mask Aung San Suu Kyi's ascension into power, the underlying agenda is one of Wall Street-London hegemony across Asia, the premeditated encirclement and subsequent containment of China, and the full-scale regional exploitation of Asia and its resources by Western corporate-financier interests."

Anyone who would write such trash knows almost nothing about the tragedy that has been the lot of the many different ethnic groups in Burma.  What ignorant trash.   You should be ashamed of yourself for posting such lies and attacks on someone who has endured so much pain.

What the hell is the argument here?  Does anybody really believe that the Myanmarian junta, a cabal of bloodsoaked multibazillionaire fascist generals, is "anti-imperialist"?

Or that keeping that junta in power is somehow "sticking it to The Man"?

The junta is not socialist.  it was never going to build socialism.  And this is exactly the kind of situation where "anti-imperialism" goes off the rails, and gets twisted into the old Mafia notion that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Anti-imperialists(and I consider myself one as well)can do better than that.

It will be possible now to organize a true anti-imperialist Left movement in Myanmar...there will now be space...there would never be that space if the generals had prevailed.

Aung San Suu Kyi Stoops To Conquer Burma

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1203/500660/aung-san-suu-kyi-stoops-to-...

"...some analysts, however, say Mrs Suu Kyi has been reduced to a mere token who the regime no longer fears, and is intentionally being permitted to win a seat because her election is worth the lifting of US sanctions. Washington hopes her victory will be the first of many democratic changes, so the US can increase its economic and political influence in the Buddhist majority, former British colony.

By staging the election and allowing other freedoms, the regime has risen to its most powerful position on the world stage, attracting politicians, businessmen and others from America, Europe and elsewhere. Columbia University professor Joseph E Stiglitz visited in 2009 and suggested 'removing the sanctions that have now become an impediment to the country's 'transformation.'

The sanctions include a ban on most international banking activity, rendering credit cards and bank transfers useless.."

Walkom: The Real Reason Canada is Cozying Up to Burma's Dictators

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1157856--walkom-the-...

"...Resource-rich Burma is subject to strict economic sanctions by Western countries. Big companies - and particularly big oil companies - are lobbying hard to have those sactions lifted. And Canada hopes to have its firms front and centre when the great barbecue begins.

The fact that Burma's military-backed leaders allowed any opening towards democracy - and that Suu Kiy gave them her imprimatur - offers Western countries the excuse they need to let trade and investment rip..."