Old article, announcing what’s to happen in Syria :(
US government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://wsws.org/en/articles/2003/04/loot-a19.html
The ACCP’s ideas represent the interests of particularly rapacious sections of the US ruling class, who operate on the principle that everything—even an object of priceless artistic or scientific value—is defined by its “market value”.
What they mean is price, since the real value of the objects stolen from the Museum of Baghdad and the Iraqi National Library is incalculable. These are quite literally people who understand the price of everything and the value of nothing.