Mark Ames, author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond and writer for The eXiled, The Nation, and AlterNet, discusses U.S. style “corporate communism,” consumer spending bubble made from Fed money creation, hypocritical Randian pseudo-libertarianism versus the real kind, the extremism of U.S. political “centrists” and hope for a realignment of the true moderates, how Wall Street gangsters treat American towns like third world colonies of the empire, and then back to the business cycle again.
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