The US government might yet pull the economy out of the jaws of recession through the short-term fix of raising spending on the military or the related disaster capitalism complex. But one way or another, the forces making for long-term global stagnation are now too heavy to be shaken off by the equivalent of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. - Walden Bello
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