The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.
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Tariq Ali: Obama and Empire
Video of a lecture by Tariq Ali at the Marxism 2009 festival in London, “The American Empire in Crisis: Obama at Home and Abroad.” Filmed by Ady Cousins. The video can also be viewed at the Counterfire website.
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