Get in line, blood suckers; much money to be made in Afghanistan

War! Money! Capitalism! Exploitation!

Yes, as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald writes, privatisation is bringing goodness to the peaceful land of Afghanistan:

As the Obama administration announced plans for hundreds of billions of dollars more in domestic budget cuts, it late last week solicited bids for the construction of a massive new prison in Bagram, Afghanistan.… … Posted on the aptly named FedBizOps.Gov website which it uses to announce new privatized spending projects, the administration unveiled plans for “the construction of Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP), Bagram, Afghanistan”… which includes “detainee housing capability for approximately 2000 detainees.”… … It will also feature “guard towers, administrative facility and Vehicle/Personnel Access Control Gates, security surveillance and restricted access systems.”…  The announcement provided:… “the estimated cost of the project is between $25,000,000 to $100,000,000.”

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