Brits Have It
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It is a well known fact that it is British big business interests which are behind army British government's policy of buying off jobs in parliament. But another side to this CONTINUATION OF WARS plays in produced by many of the same husiness The most recent example of this has been in the Middle East. Two British firms Pauling Middle East and Brooke Marine have won contracts worth £10,000,000 and £6,000,000 in Oman in the Persian Gulf. The contracts are to supply fast patrol boats to the Omani government for use against Liberation fighters there, firms. and to build a network of military installations north of the Dhofar mountains. The bases will give the Omani government even greater power to strike against the revolutionary guerillas.
But the Omani government is kept in power by the British army. The Brits supply the personnell for the top ranks in the Omani army, and are effectively in control of it. Behind all this is the fact that the Brits want to keep a foothold in the Persian Gulf because of the vast oil reserves there. So they make sure that a repressive capitalist government is kept in power against the wishes of the people. In return the Omani government supplies oil to Britain and as a sideline gives its military contracts to British IN