[Peace-discuss] Decades & decadence

[C. G. Estabrook]

News from Neptune on TV tonight (ch. 6 at 7pm - repeats thru the weekend) 
includes David Green describing David Harvey's important work on Neoliberalism, 
the name for US political/economic policy in this generation, as the New Deal 
was the name for the same in the latter half of the Thirty Years' War (1914-45).

What happened to objections from those who had the leisure to read and write, 
think and talk, about what was being done in our name -- who didn't have to be 
in the factory or on the farm or caring for the kids or looking for work?  Alex 
Cockburn offers a precis:

"...the Counter-Culture hung up the Out of Business sign sometime in the 
Nineties, finished off by identity politics and general self-satisfaction..."