“The explosion of the rig was a disaster that resulted from BP’s culture of privileging profit over prudence,” said US federal assistant attorney general Lanny A. Breuer at a recent press conference. He was announcing that the company had agreed to pay $4.5 billion to settle criminal charges from the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.The author argues the obvious (to you and me) that this theme, “culture of privileging profit”, is an integral part of capitalism, a system designed by, and for, the world's One Percents.
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.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Capitalism, the legitimate racket of the ruling class
Click here to access article by Peter Boyle from Green Left.