Interesting, especially in light of this article about Detroit in today's NYTimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/opinion/what-really-ails-detroit.html?hp <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/opinion/what-really-ails-detroit.html?hp&_r=0> &_r=0 REH From: futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 9:50 AM To: INCOME DISTRIBUTION EDUCATION RE- DESIGNING WORK; dissenters Subject: [Futurework] What's really happening in Egypt? Chris Hedges take on what is happening in Egypt. http://www.alternet.org/world/massacres-egypt-are-precursor-wider-global-conflict-between-worlds-elites-and-worlds-poor?akid=10805.1074389.LDrkfx <http://www.alternet.org/world/massacres-egypt-are-precursor-wider-global-conflict-between-worlds-elites-and-worlds-poor?akid=10805.1074389.LDrkfx&rd=1&src=newsletter883334&t=7&paging=off> &rd=1&src=newsletter883334&t=7&paging=off Excerpts: The only way to break the hold of radical Islam is to give followers of the movement a stake in the wider economy, the possibility of a life where the future is not dominated by grinding poverty, repression and hopelessness. If you live in the sprawling slums of Cairo or the refugee camps in Gaza or the concrete hovels in New Delhi, every avenue of escape is closed. You cannot get an education. You cannot get a job. You cannot get married. You cannot challenge the domination of the economy by the oligarchs and the generals. The only way left for you to affirm yourself is to become a martyr or shahid. Then you will get what you cannot get in life—a brief moment of fame and glory. And while what will take place in Egypt will be defined as a religious war, and the acts of violence by the insurgents who will rise from the bloodied squares of Cairo will be defined as terrorism, the engine for this chaos is not religion but the collapsing global economy, a world where the wretched of the Earth are to be subjugated and starved or shot. The lines of battle are being drawn in Egypt and across the globe. Adli Mansour, the titular president appointed by the military dictator of Egypt, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, has imposed a military-led government, a curfew and a state of emergency. It will not be lifted soon. .................. What is happening in Egypt is a precursor to a wider global war between the world’s elites and the world’s poor, a war caused by diminishing resources, chronic unemployment and underemployment, declining crop yields caused by climate change, overpopulation and rising food prices. ................ Egypt offers a window into the coming dystopia. The wars of survival will mark the final stage of human habitation of the planet. Happy reading, Ed
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