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"War is the continuation of business by other means." — Bertolt Brecht  "War is business and business is good for America," [ Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, Israel, and others] "The latest Global Peace Index report finds that the economic impact of violence to the global economy was $13.6 trillion in 2015 in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). This is equivalent to $5 per day for every person on the planet, or 11 times the size of global foreign direct investment (FDI). The toll of violence is typically counted in terms of its human and emotional cost, but the financial damage to the economy is yet another additional factor to consider. When counting the economic impact one must look at the costs of preventing and containing violence, as well as measuring its consequences. This is important because spending on containing violence, while perhaps necessary, is fundamentally economically unproductive. How do you "add up" the cos
Leading Olympic expert Jules Boykoff takes the 2012 Olympics in London as a case study of corporate greed and popular resistance against Celebration Capitalism .
The development of capitalism has good news for "the developing countries". How the West will continue to rule. " As the next industrial revolution unfolds, the model for economic growth that arose alongside globalization will offer a less certain path toward development. Though new technologies will not completely erase the benefit of cheap labor, they will reduce the number of opportunities countries have to industrialize, diversify and grow their economies." The Rise of Manufacturing Marks the Decline of Globalization
" Fighting the state is hard enough without navigating a maze of middle class entitlement. And as a result these movements fail to offer me anything that can realistically improve my life or make surviving capitalism easier." Nicole Vosper on the Guardian
"When 13th century Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi  wrote  “See how the polestar is ogling Leo,” he was probably referring to the constellation, not  Titanic  star Leonardo DiCaprio. Or maybe the mystic was augering his legacy’s unfortunate future in the hands of  Gladiator  writer David Franzoni, who is working on a big-budget biopic of the poet, and who wants DiCaprio for the starring role." An article on foreignpolicy.com
“It is an astonishing sign of the depth of Eurocentrism that so many European scholars persist, in the face of all the evidence, in regarding nationalism as a European invention.” — Benedict Anderson, “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.” Verso, 2011