Thread: The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution

The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution

Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
Apr 07, 2010 - 05:35 AM

By: Andrew_G_Marshall

This is Part 3 of the series, "When Empire Hits Home."

Part 1: War, Racism and the Empire of Poverty http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18263
Part 2: Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The Impoverishment of the Middle Class http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article18282.html

As nations of the world are thrown into a debt crisis, the likes of which have never been seen before, harsh fiscal ‘austerity’ measures will be undertaken in a flawed attempt to service the debts. The result will be the elimination of the middle class. When the middle class is absorbed into the labour class – the lower class – and lose their social, political, and economic foundations, they will riot, rebel, and revolt.

Ratings Agency Predicts Civil Unrest

Moody’s is a major ratings agency, which performs financial research and analysis on governments and commercial entities and ranks the credit-worthiness of borrowers. On March 15, Moody’s warned that the US, the UK, Germany, France, and Spain “are all at risk of soaring debt costs and will have to implement austerity plans that threaten ‘social cohesion’.â€

War, Racism and the Empire of Poverty

When Empire Hits Home, Part 1

by Andrew Gavin Marshall

Global Research, March 22, 2010

At a time of such great international turmoil economically and politically, it is increasingly important to identify and understand the social dynamics of crisis. A global social crisis has long preceded the economic crisis, and has only been exacerbated by it. The great shame of human civilization is the fact that over half of it lives in abysmal poverty.

Poverty is not simply a matter of ‘bad luck’; it is a result of socio-political-economic factors that allow for very few people in the world to control so much wealth and so many resources, while so many are left with so little. The capitalist world system was built upon war, race, and empire. Malcolm X once declared, “You can’t have capitalism without racism.â€

Gerald Celente has warned of this.

Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis, The Impoverishment of the Middle Class

Politics / Social Issues
Mar 30, 2010 - 03:57 AM

By: Andrew_G_Marshall

The western nations of the world have built their great wealth and societies on the exploitation and plundering of the people and resources of the rest of the world. The wealth, freedom, and structures of our societies have been built on the starvation, robbery, deprivation and murder of millions upon millions of the world’s people, both historically and presently.

It seemed for a time that “Western Civilizationâ€