I introduced in an early post John Pilger and how he describe how the U.S. was in part (if not all) responsible for the rise of Pol Pot. Here is another one of his documentaries about how the rest of the world lives. Most Americans, and I hate to say this but its true, but Chavez said something along the lines at a U.N. conference that most Americans are more concerned with the latest superman and batman movies than with how their own country treats them. I won’t argue with him on that one.
In any case, this documentary is entitled New Rulers of the World.
‘Global economy’ is a modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile phones, McDonald’s, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath this gloss, it is the globalization of poverty, a world where most human beings never make a phone call and live on less than two dollars a day, where 6,000 children die every day from diarrhea because most have no access to clean water.
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