I'm in the middle of reading a lengthy feature by the outstanding British journalist Johann Hari: The Dark Side of Dubai.
I thought I knew how bad things were in Dubai, but I was wrong. I also thought the story was too long and I would skim it, but I'm riveted.
I highly recommend spending some time with this one: The dark side of Dubai.
Thanks to James for sending.
And may I add, regarding both A. L. Kennedy (in my previous post) and Johann Hari, that it really pisses me off that writers can be this good, this young.
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Wow, that is crazy. It's like reading a dystopian novel, only it's much worse - this isn't what we might become, it's what we are.
A hyperinflated version of our own capitalist world. A neocon-neoliberal paradise.
Glad you read it. I hope a lot of people do.
Happy to say I read this last month and have been telling everyone I know about it. I thought I had a fairly good idea of what was going on there; I was wrong. It's appalling. It's also very timely, as we are faced with this recession - which if forcing a lot of people to re-evaluate capitalism. And Dubai seems to have embraced the worst aspects of it.
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