by Patricia Goldsmith

The chickenhawks have put the war back in class warfare. Under globalization, Baghdad and New Orleans really are interchangeable. It's not just the American worker, but the American citizen, who is being brought down to the same level as a citizen of the Third World. Apparently, human rights are only for those with the money to buy them -- and the price is going up, up, up, right along with oil. In the future, I believe September 11, 2001 will become identified with peak oil. While oil production did not actually peak on that particular day, it's close enough for government work. Our entire civilization, with its quaint middle classes and obsolete Geneva Conventions and Bill of Rights, is based on the false assumption of unlimited access to cheap oil....

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