“Incessant and morally bereft financial predation at [the] global level and [the] emergence of hollow nation-states that serve merely as vehicles for the enrichment of these predators.” ~ John Robb, commenting on Matt Taibi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine.” (Rolling Stone).
The History Channel was really rather interesting yesterday afternoon – first a three hour comparison of today’s (The Greatest) Depression (Since) the Last (Great Depression) followed by two hours documenting the crumbling of “America”‘s infrastructure. We already know how far down the sewer our health care system is. Welcome to the Third World.
Re-reading Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, 1492 to Present today. Pretty amazing how little things have changed.
