A beautiful, forward-thinking essay by David Michael Green, “Growing Up Globally,” addresses the dire need for political evolution on this planet.
On the other side of the coin, so to speak, we’ve got Joe Bageant critiquing the rampant failures of American-style Capitalism in “Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball.”
A good report from Chris Hedges: “Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick,” takes an honest look at the health insurance biz and government in America.
David Michael Green notices the deeply regressive state of degradation we currently find ourselves in: “How’s That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For You?”
H. L. Mencken, back in 1916, wrote: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
So, if you want things to go your way, you dupe the “common people” into thinking they should want what you want (e.g., don’t tax the rich, dismantle public policy, deregulate), and once they agree, you give it to them good and hard. That’s where we’re at now: we’re gettin’ it good and hard.
Paul Krugman dismantles the “Myths of Austerity.”
And Joe Bageant is back in: “Live from Planet Norte.”
Michael Hudson writes well about the predatory machinations of the Finance Class in “Europe Sacrifices Labour for Finance.” These are the economic lines of battle being drawn right now. Having gained all the power, they’re coming after all the money.