...existing national policy is to do whatever is necessary - drilling deep under the Gulf and launching our military abroad - to secure oil. Until we change our national security and energy policies, future mishaps - environmental, military and economic - may frequently occur.How is it possible to change "policies" when they are based on the profit interests of a ruling class? To paraphrase one of our great past servants of the ruling class, it's the social-economic system, stupid!
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Monday, May 24, 2010
The Big Picture: Why Is It So Hard to Stop the Oil Gusher, and Why Was Such Extreme Deepwater Drilling Allowed in the First Place?
from Washington's Blog. Excellent broader perspective on the gulf disaster. Guess what? It's the military-industrial complex that Ike (Eisenhower) warned us about--and we didn't listen.