This came from a thread in the Foreign Affairs group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php#2384The article can be found at the following link:
http://www.nypress.com/16/45/news&columns/cage.cfmYou really must read all the article, as is it is quite fascinating, and really lays out in plain language the complicated workings of the global mafia (or New World Order, if you prefer). But there is one particular part that I think everyone on DU ought to be familiar with:
Oligarchs R Us
Deep politics swirl behind the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
By Matt Taibbi
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Many of us who spent the 90s in Russia became aware over time that the aim of the United States was to create a rump state that would allow economic interests to strip assets at will. The population in this scheme was to be good for consuming foreign goods produced abroad with Russia’s own cheaply sold raw materials. The aim was a castrated state, anarchy, a vast, confused territory of captive consumers, cheap labor and unguarded oil and aluminum.
Some of us who came home after seeing this began to realize that the same process is underway in the United States: the erosion of the tax base, the gradual appropriation of the tools of government by economic interests, a massive, disorganized population useless to everybody except as shoppers. That is their revolution: smashing states everywhere and creating a scattered global nation of villas and tax shelters, as inaccessible as Olympus, forbidding entry even to mighty dictators.This succinctly puts into words what I think the Bush administration and the larger Neo-Con movement as a whole has been all about. Ain't it scary?
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