War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis
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Excerpt from "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century"
By Prof Peter Dale Scott
Global Research
The following text is an excerpt of a chapter by Peter Dale Scott from the book, “The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century“ Global Research Publishers, 2010.
The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Bailout
The bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced at the time into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
The excuse for bypassing normal legislative procedures was the existence of an emergency. But one of the most reprehensible feature...