Crisis of Capitalism

Demagoguery and Realism

Santiago Alba Rico - Rebelión

Translation: Machetera

The same day that the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that almost a billion human beings are affected by hunger and that the aid necessary to save their lives would cost $30 billion dollars, six central banks (United States, Japan, Canada, England and Switzerland) injected $180 billion dollars in the financial markets in a concerted action to save the private banks.

In the face of data such as this, there are only two possible alternatives: that we be demogogues or that we be realists.

Read the rest of this great article that speaks bluntly;

http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/demagoguery-and-realism/