Pipe Dreams: War Profiteers Plow Under the Poor
October 10, 2007
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A.C. Grayling nails the stupendous – and literally murderous – folly of the Bush Regime’s decision to launch a war of economic destruction against the Afghan people: Opium of the People (Guardian). The Regime is pressing its satrap in Kabul to step up the eradication, at gunpoint, of the nation’s only cash crop – opium – with American-made herbicides. Thus both the land and the agrarian-based economy that most Afghans depend upon will be blighted, and multitudes will be plunged into
Our guest blogger for today, Mr. Mark Floyd – poet, mentor, hipster, working man – rings the changes with a new set of lyrics built around the old Muddy Waters blues romp that Bob Dylan recently borrowed for his “Modern Times.” Floyd takes us “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” through the nightmare alley of modern America, and along the way answers the question that should face everyone in the lost generation — the Baby Boomers who have celebrated themselves and their high ideals so extravagantly for decades but who now, in power, 
The cartoon version America’s relationship to Europe – and a cartoon version is of course the 
Below is a comment posted on this website by one of our regular readers, Scott Douglas. I wanted to bring it up to the front page and highlight it, because I think it is an emblematic story of the history of our times. So with his permission, here it is: