“Your Honours know by experience that trade in Asia must be driven and maintained under the protection and favour of Your Honours' own weapons, and that the weapons must be paid for by the profits from the trade; so that we cannot carry on trade without war nor war without trade.”

Jan Pieterszoon Coen, de facto Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie CEO, 1614

[2]

Warfare

[7]

Note: These six figures, the main Middle-Eastern conflicts of the so-called “War on Terror”, are generally accurate and their total lines up with the two million suggested by recent studies, but there is considerable indication the total damage to the region since 1990 is much vaster.

Poverty & Genocide

[65]

Corporate Victims

[85]

[89]

Then raise the scarlet standard high

Beneath it's folds we'll live and die

Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer

We'll keep the red flag flying here















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