>Coherent thoughts and lucid words elude me at the moment, but the effect of
>this article is more jarring than any other seemingly innocuous piece of
>journalism I've read in a long while. At one and the same time this piece
>conveys that 1) "globalism," that peculiar admixture of world-spanning
>neo-liberalism and overripe US financial-military imperialism, looks far,
>far different than any acute observer could have prognosticated in the late
>1990's and 2) the confluence of political trends that respond to/exploit the
>contradictions of "globalism" are far, far more regressive than any hopeful
>radical internationalist might have envisioned in the late 1990's.
>
Yes, and one ominous consequence is that opposition to capitalism (when
the state is a major investor) now becomes tantamount to treason or
terrorism.
Joanna