>From "Morning in America" to the Nightmare on Main Street Tuesday 08 March >2011 by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Ronald Reagan's infamous "it's morning in America" slogan, used as part of his 1984 presidential campaign, paved the way for a set of market-driven policies that historians faithful to the human record will be compelled to rename twilight in America to signal a historical crisis fueled less by a spirited hope for the future than by a shocking refusal to be held accountable to and for it. The policies that informed Reagan's neoliberal agenda have given way to the intense assault now being waged by his more extremist governmental descendants on all vestiges of the democratic state. full: http://www.truth-out.org/from-morning-america-nightmare-main-street68274 LISTEN TO GIROUX'S 30 MINUTE RADIO INTERVIEW ON THIS ARTICLE. THE URL IS IN THE PIECE. This Time We're Taking the Whole Planet With Us Monday 07 March 2011 by: Chris Hedges | Truthdig | Op-Ed I have walked through the barren remains of Babylon in Iraq and the ancient Roman city of Antioch, the capital of Roman Syria, which now lies buried in silt deposits. I have visited the marble ruins of Leptis Magna, once one of the most important agricultural centers in the Roman Empire, now isolated in the desolate drifts of sand southeast of Tripoli. full: http://www.truth-out.org/this-time-were-taking-whole-planet-with-us68280
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