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...often devolves into snake oil: nativism, isolationism and protectionism - none of which are viable positions in a global economy. But we have seen an unprecedented period of untrammeled wealth accumulation in this country, and Webb makes a convincing pitch that the fabric of society is being shredded by greed. "It is not class warfare ... to point out that economic inequities persist," he writes. "In fact, the reverse is true: it is class warfare from the top down to pretend that such inequities don't matter...
...mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world’s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...
...Most Burmese would happily take one more Cyclone Nargis in place of this regime of military dictators; they are still the Public Enemy No. 1. Their response to the cyclone has nakedly shown to the world the extent of their greed and stupidity. One can only hope that the soldiers serving underneath these thugs will at some point say, for the good of the country, Enough is enough. Kyaw Kyaw, Penang, Malaysia...
...Most Burmese would happily take one more Cyclone Nargis in place of this regime of military dictators; they are still Public Enemy No. 1. Their response to the cyclone has nakedly displayed the extent of their greed and stupidity. One can only hope that the soldiers serving under these thugs will at some point say, for the good of the country, Enough is enough. Kyaw Kyaw, Penang, Malaysia...
...keep his artistic and political lives separate. His new play is proof of how ultimately he failed to do so. But, for many theater goers and readers, that's a blessing. Leaving documents the fall from grace of a powerful man. It takes an uncompromising, knowing look at the greed and excess that followed the fall of communism - a period that tends to be mythologized in the West. As an icon of that revolution, no one is better placed to reconstruct...