Read what the commenter below your reply says. He's right. The world runs on oil. The oil part of the world is the very last place corporate and imperial dominance will recede. Southeast Asia had rubber, which the world partly ran on, but synthetic materials can take its place. And it still took 100's of years for imperial power to withdraw from Southeast Asia. The oil world and attendant and surrounding regimes are relatively newly dominated and will need much time and for us to finally get the hell out of their faces before even beginning to approach change. And we ARE still in their faces - more than EVER really. One has to understand the scope and historical currents to form the best opinions. Yes, internal dynamics, as you say, are important, even now, but they're overwhelmed by the Mordor-like Western dominance still and going forward.
Thanks for highlighting and explaining this disastrous neoliberal policy that the corporate news media and both corporate-controlled political parties do their best to protect and ignore. I guess this election is karmic, but did it have to be so tectonic? There IS a worse fate than the slow improvement we have been experiencing, and we are about to find out what that fate is. Juan, thanks for keeping your head about you while so many of us are undoubtedly losing ours a bit at this moment.
And Smiley Boteach is a ... radical rightwing work himself.
Read what the commenter below your reply says. He's right. The world runs on oil. The oil part of the world is the very last place corporate and imperial dominance will recede. Southeast Asia had rubber, which the world partly ran on, but synthetic materials can take its place. And it still took 100's of years for imperial power to withdraw from Southeast Asia. The oil world and attendant and surrounding regimes are relatively newly dominated and will need much time and for us to finally get the hell out of their faces before even beginning to approach change. And we ARE still in their faces - more than EVER really. One has to understand the scope and historical currents to form the best opinions. Yes, internal dynamics, as you say, are important, even now, but they're overwhelmed by the Mordor-like Western dominance still and going forward.
Thanks for highlighting and explaining this disastrous neoliberal policy that the corporate news media and both corporate-controlled political parties do their best to protect and ignore. I guess this election is karmic, but did it have to be so tectonic? There IS a worse fate than the slow improvement we have been experiencing, and we are about to find out what that fate is. Juan, thanks for keeping your head about you while so many of us are undoubtedly losing ours a bit at this moment.