>> Karma, pure karma. From 1975-2001, neoliberalism (a.k.a. the class war
>> of the rich on the planet) plundered, pillaged, looted and burned the
>> periphery and semi-periphery.
>
> Dumb line, comrade. The looting continues ('a luta continua'), well past
> 2001.
What was stolen can be taken back by developmental states. Since 2001, Russia created Bearzilla, China steadily upgraded Asiazilla, and Venezuela created Bolivarzilla. Roughly half of all the countries subjected to IMF-administered immiseration have openly repudiated neoliberalism and are constructing alternatives.
>> ... Left to his own
>> ideological devices, Obama seems bound and determined to be America's
>> Gorbachev -- only one without the sense to get the hell out of
>> Afghanistan.
>
> Brilliant line, comrade. It's yours? Citation?
Mine. The parallels are scary, actually.
-- DRR