[lbo-talk] Fwd: [PEN-L] Kevin Phillips: declinist

[Steven L. Robinson]

>From the review it looks like Phillips addresses "peak oil" in this book.  One wonders whether he actually believes it (or  just sees a ploy increase sales of his book) and whether his voice is representative of the circles of power in which he once traveled. SR

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From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com> 


> http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/03/16/phillips/ 
> Decline and fall 
> Kevin Phillips, no lefty, says that America -- addicted to oil, strangled 
> by debt and maniacally religious -- is headed for doom. 
> 
> By Michelle Goldberg 


> mess. All of that, after all, was true toward the end of Vietnam as well. 
> Now, though, there are all kinds of other lurking catastrophes, a whole 
> armory of swords of Damocles dangling over a bloated, dispirited and 
> anxious country. Peak oil -- the point at which oil production maxes out -- 
> seems to be approaching, with disastrous consequences for America's economy 
> and infrastructure. 
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