I’m back…

I have not forgotten about my blog, I just have had an immense amount of work these past months and little access to internet outside of my office. So even though I wrote some texts in early January, I haven’t gotten around to post them until now.

Right now, I am in the middle of reading John Perkins “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” and even though I have only gotten through half the book, so far it is by far the best book I have read in a long, long time and probably the scariest one ever. Coming back to consumerism that I wrote about below, I should have added its impacts on international relations and domestic politics in addition to my concerns about environmental and human rights impacts. “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” is a scary, scary book about how Western corporate interests have shaped the history of too many countries and hence the lives of far too many individuals throughout the world. If you read only one book this year, read this one!