Matt Taibbi (he spent 10 years as a journalist in Russia covering the rise of the oligarchs there) has done it again with another viral article, "The Great American Bubble Machine." (Rolling Stone, the link is to a copy). It's a must read. He's constructing a narrative of popular discontent that could gain traction as the rate of economic descent steepens again this fall.
A couple of global guerrilla themes here: incessant and morally bereft financial predation at the global level (financial tribalism?) and the emergence of hollow nation-states that serve merely as vehicles the enrichment of these predators.
NOTE: It's also an interesting reprise of the current carbon trading scheme -- essentially, instead of responding to environmental stress with real solutions (a push to create local resiliency) we get another big rip-off that will line the pockets of global banksters.
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