In a free market, transnational oil companies (among others) that are destroying Nigeria, the Gulf Coast, parts of South America, and contributing to endless war in the middle east would’ve probably long ago been supplanted by something better, cleaner, safer and more efficient. Jim Mulva, ConocoPhillips’ chief executive, says that the unlimited liability some are proposing in Congress to punish operators for further spills in the Gulf of Mexico is inappropriate… He said to...
In my estimation this is the only problem that really matters. It’s all encompassing, and it’s practically insurmountable. Commenter Don sums it up succinctly: These monsters have done things that can never be undone and the total consequences will never be known. You’re right, Don, but I will go one further: It’s not just depleted uranium or agent orange or Nigerian oil spills that nobody in the developed world ever hears about or the...
At the end of the day we are talking about a system the sole purpose of which is to make the rest of the world "safe for American interests". And make no mistake about this: you are emphatically not one of the "American interests" which the military-industrial complex has any interest in safeguarding. You and your family are only collaterally "safe".
