[lbo-talk] Iraq: neoliberal "reform" + occupation repression

[Jim Devine]

> Chuck Grimes writes:
> I've often thought the drug trade was the last and
> best example of capitalism and classical
> economics---following the tenets of supply and demand
> and free market self-regulation in its purist form.
> But I was wrong. I think that weapons are probably a
> better example---particularly those like the automatic
> assault rifle that require vast amounts of ammunition
> to keep them working.

don't a lot of planes that carry drugs to their consumers also carry
weapons going the other way? or is there "triangular trade"?
--
Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles