Monday, September 26, 2011

Decline and fall of just about everyone

By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times

"Let's pick the bones of a broken system: middle classes in the Atlantic world barely hang on in quiet desperation; in the Pacific, the middle class is giving global capitalism a reprieve, for how long, we don't know; over in the Arab world, the military machine tries to keep the US and Europe in the game, the BRICS out, and the "natives" in their places. And globally, the whole world is holding its breath for the next economic shoe to drop in the West...."

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