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63. I caught it for real. Like Chris Hedges' recent Mexicanization of the US.

Chris Hedges: The Mexicanization of the United States (trade deals and neoliberalism) [View all]
from Truthdig: The Mexicanization of the United States Posted on Mar 13, 2016 By Chris Hedges

..From Mexico to Greece to the United States, the scenario is the same, varying only in degree. Neoliberalism and globalization create a vast race to the bottom. Duplicitous political elites, epitomized by Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, are or will be highly compensated for doling out trillions in “quantitative easing” to banks and other financial firms while delivering credulous voters to the corporate guillotine. Everyone and everything, including the natural world, is transformed into a commodity to exploit for profit.



Workers at one of the maquiladoras in Juarez, Mexico, raise flags in 2013. Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, such factories have proliferated, but critics of the pact say its effects have been economically devastating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. (Ivan Pierre Aguirre / AP)

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