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Week in Politics: As Gaza and Donetsk burn, BP whines about falling profits
PADDY McGUFFIN doesn't feel like the racketeers, spivs and hoodlums at the right hand of global capital see events in Palestine and Ukraine in quite the right light

Shame on you! You self-serving, lily-livered, spineless, selfish scum.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but you’ve been spending the last few weeks agonising over the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza and elsewhere, haven’t you.

Peasant! While you’ve been wasting all that time over slaughtered kiddies in the Middle East and the ongoing situation in Ukraine, the real suffering has been going on behind closed (boardroom) doors.

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