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U2's Bono and Anti-Venezuela Video Game

Daithí | 10.07.2006 04:53 | Anti-militarism

...from the Venezuela Solidarity Network:



"U2's Bono, well recognized for his campaigns to reduce poverty and treat AIDS in Africa is backing a videogame which promotes the invasion and destruction of Venezuela in order to check 'a power hungry tyrant' who has 'seized control of Venezuela and her oil supply.' Bono has failed to respond to concerns raised by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network about his funding of this project.

'Mercenaries 2: World in Flames,' created by Los Angeles based Pandemic/Bioware Studios, simulates a mercenary invasion of Venezuela in the year 2007. Pandemic is a subcontractor for the US Army and CIA funded Institute for Creative Technologies, which uses Hollywood techniques to mount war simulations in California's high desert in order to conduct military training. 'Mercenaries 2: World in Flames' simulates destruction in downtown Caracas, and promises to leave no part of Venezuela untouched."

 http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2006/07/no-bono-no.html

Daithí