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Saturday, July 21, 2007

still reading

Planet of Slums by Mike Davis.

Possibly the most depressing book evah.

The most depressing sentence so far?

p. 132
"International developement agencies encourage destructive transport policies by their preference for financing roads rather than rails, as well as by encouraging the privatization of local transportation."

Next up on the suicide watch reading list? Perkins' latest, of course, The Secret History of the American Empire. I'm actually halfway through "..Slums" and I started "...Empire" a while ago, but put it down for a while. There are some disturbing similarities and some organizations that are mentioned in both books, namely, the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank.

refers back to this one

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