Later, I found that this incompetent and unimaginative leadership was not the monopoly of Saskatchewan, but it was spread all over the world because of the globalization of our economies under what I have called the BIG LIE of the Free Market.

Economist Paul Krugman explained Friday in the New York Times the mendacity of President George Bush in pushing his private war against Iraq as well as his economic directions on behalf of the few and privileged.

In Italy, the economic matters are not better than elsewhere. A few days after I arrived in Rome on September 24, I had a telephone conversation with my brother Nino and he asked me about my first impressions of the country. I responded that my first impressions of Italy were summarized by two experiences.

The first experience reflected the explicit resurgence of Fascism as I noticed posters of dictator Benito Mussolini splashed on buildings. The second experience occurred when while walking on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, in Rome, I noticed an helicopter in the sky and a motorcade of policemen. I asked a municipal policeman what was going on and he replied that a demonstration was taking place. I then asked this same policeman what these demonstrators wanted, and he replied that the demonstrators wanted more money. When I finally saw a flood of demonstrators I realized they were demonstrating against about anything, including wars and injustice.

References

The Saskatchewan Government and SAHO: Mismanaging Health Care and Blackmailing SUN Nurses, by Mario deSantis, May 9, 1999 file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MARIO%20DESANTIS/My%20Documents/Ensign/desantis51/blackmail.html

The Big Lie of the Free Market is Against the Environment, by Mario deSantis, December 13, 2001 file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/MARIO%20DESANTIS/My%20Documents/Ensign/2001_500/desantis510/biglie.html

Dead Parrot Society, by Paul Krugman, Originally published in The New York Times, 10.25.02 http://www.pkarchive.org/column/102502.html