Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Winners Face the Facts: We're In a Pickle

As posted on www.Alternet.org Feb, 4, 2009:

It's Not Going to Be OK
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig. Posted February 4, 2009.

The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States could plunge into a long period of precarious social instability.

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