These remarks by Paul Craig Roberts are stimulating - and the furthest point yet in his disaffection with the system he once served with love.
--- The American elites are transforming themselves into idiots as they seek to replicate in America the conditions that have led to the overthrows of similarly corrupt elites in Tunisia and Egypt and mounting challenges to U.S. puppet governments elsewhere. All we need is a few million more Americans with nothing to lose in order to bring the disturbances in the Middle East home to America. With the U.S. military bogged down in wars abroad, an American revolution would have the best chance of success. ... Of all the countries in the world, none need a revolution as bad as the United States, a country ruled by a handful of selfish oligarchs who have more income and wealth than can be spent in a lifetime. Paul Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02182011.html --- The oligarchs would follow Roberts' point that people should have enough stake to keep them loyal to capitalism - but the capitalists cannot do that. There was profit in it, but now there is not. Industrial labor is over. http://www.amazon.com/NO-RICH-POOR-CHARLES-ANDREWS/dp/096799053X/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
