Chris Hedges‘ Empire of Illusion by The New School, 16 DEC 2009.

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Notes for future scholarship…

(c. 18:52) On Sheldon S. Wolin’s “inverted totalitarianism”

(c. 28:27)  How NAFTA bankrupt Mexican farmers in the 1990s

(c. 29:50)  Clinton administration, including Larry Summers, “the Financial Services Modernization Act”, stripped away earlier banking regulations. (cf. Clinton’s ‘Reinventing Government’ agenda, William K. Black, et al.)

(c. 38:00)  ‘America is devolving into a third world country’

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