January 19th, 2010 / 1:21 pm
Snippets
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Justin Taylor—
After the Revolution, when we all live in sustainable green skyscrapers, are insured, and publish our genius works of genius in the all-powerful well-paying collective literary magazines whose basic architecture Alec Niedenthal and I sketched out in the comments on Roxane’s post yesterday, and people like Paul Wolfowitz have all been eaten by wild dogs, we will all sit around and laugh about the Bad Old Days when the IMF’s solution to an apocalyptic earth quake in Haiti was to call for them to freeze public wages. Way to stay classy, neo-liberalism.
Even worse was David Brooks’ inane opinion piece basically suggesting we do nothing and let the Haitians learn from their mistakes, like their voodoo culture and laziness and shitty infrastructure. (I’m not kidding.) If you haven’t seen it, Matt Taibbi has a nice takedown of it: http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/
Even worse was David Brooks’ inane opinion piece basically suggesting we do nothing and let the Haitians learn from their mistakes, like their voodoo culture and laziness and shitty infrastructure. (I’m not kidding.) If you haven’t seen it, Matt Taibbi has a nice takedown of it: http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/
haha. love.
haha. love.
I thought this article made some important points, starting with the fact that, thanks to imperialist exploitation, it doesn’t take an “apocalyptic” earthquake to pulverize Haiti: THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE: MADE IN U.S.A. by Ted Rall.
I thought this article made some important points, starting with the fact that, thanks to imperialist exploitation, it doesn’t take an “apocalyptic” earthquake to pulverize Haiti: THE HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE: MADE IN U.S.A. by Ted Rall.