Thursday, December 9, 2010

Alfred McCoy, Taking Down America

A very thoughtful piece from www.tomdispatch.com on where the world may be going in several different scenarios.  It points out that if the international corporate elite indeed trumps the nation state in power and influence, that the next period may be international feudalism, with the pattern of extreme inequality seen in the U.S. under corporate hegemony spreading across the rest of the world.  Serfs of the world, unite!  One of the best reads I’ve come across for Big Picture.  And indirectly highlights the need to keep the Internet open—and speech free—as at least a possible countervailing force against the sheer dead weight of money.

Alfred McCoy, Taking Down America

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