The BBC reports that "many governments across the 27-member bloc have imposed punishing cuts in wages, pensions and employment to deal with spiralling debts." Because of this, Europe is seeing mass protests. Learn more
Not long ago we witnessed mass uprisings of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon who were protesting oil and gas exploration of their natural homelands, resulting in the revocation of pro-corporate/anti-human land laws. "The controversial laws, passed to implement a free trade agreement with the US, were revoked by Peru's Congress by a margin of 82-12 after a five-hour debate." Learn more and click here
Coupling these two events one begins to wonder if capitalism as we have known it isn't heading towards a bend in the road? This is not to say that we are predicting a return to the old communist past. Instead, social democracy, with a strong green awareness topped by peace and justice , is most probably the next step in the planet's evolution towards global citizenship.
BTW - check out the photos comparing East Germany in 1991 and then again in 2001 (a clear demonstration of the failures of the former "communist system" and a testimony to the "Rhine" model - here
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