Excerpt from Petras article at People's Voice
“Western societies and states are moving inexorably toward conditions resembling barbarism; structural changes are reversing decades of social welfare and subjecting labor, natural resources and the wealth of nations to raw exploitation, pillage and plunder, driving living standards downward and provoking unprecedented levels of discontent.…
“[B]arbarism has emerged as a defining reality, product of the ascendancy of a militarist and parasitic financial ruling class. The barbarians are here and now, present within the frontiers of Western societies and states. They are dominant and aggressively pursuing an agenda which is continually reducing living standards, transferring public wealth to their private coffers, pillaging public resources, savaging constitutional rights in their pursuit of imperial wars, segregating and persecuting millions of immigrant workers and promoting the disintegration and diminution of the stable working and middle class. More than at any time in recent history, the top 1 percent of the population controls an increasing share of national wealth and income.”
Source: “Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism” (James Petras), July 31st, 2010, http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/07/31/trends-to-barbarism-and-prospects-for-so#more12754. James Petras is a former professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, author of more than 62 books, his latest Global Depression and Regional Wars: The United States, Latin America and the Middle East (Clarity Press, September 2009), published in 29 languages; and hundreds of journal articles [jpetras@binghamton.edu; http://petras.lahaine.org/index.phps].
Friday July 30 protests of U.S./Mexico militarization
The Border Network for Human Rights says militarization of the U.S./Mexico border is not without consequences. Increasing the number of armed agents and soldiers on the border does not enhance national security.
The rights group is protesting the deployment of National Guard troops on the U.S./Mexico border and has delivered a letter to U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes urging him to lead congressional opposition to further militarization of the border.
The U.S. National Guard ordered by the Obama administration in further militarizing the border ─ tantamount to yet another act of war ─ is due to arrive Sunday [from a July 30, 2010, report from El Paso, Texas, KTSM, http://www.ktsm.com/news/border-network-protests-troop-deployment]. Congressman Silvestre Reyes represents Texas' 16th congressional district.
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