Saudi Arabia Operates According To The Belief

The Prevailing Ideology Of The Modern West - Which Is Political Economy - Is In The Doghouse. Having Failed To Notice Atmospheric Pollution, The Economists Then Frightened Themselves With The Sort Of Financial Crisis They Said They Had Abolished.

For All Their Current Prestige, Osama Bin Laden And The Suicide Bombers Are Still Regarded In All But The Most Desperate Districts Of Gaza Or Peshawar As Romantics With Little Chance Of More Than Symbolic Victories, However Bloody And Brutal. That Gives Both The Middle East And The West A Small And Distant Hope Of Security.

Because Bankers Measure Their Self-worth In Money, And Pay Themselves A Lot Of It, They Think They're Fine Fellows And Don't Need To Explain Themselves.

The Year 2008 Was A Reminder To Those Who Had Forgotten That There Is Such A Thing As History And That The Cycle Of Famine And Feast In Commerce, First Identified In Antiquity And Well Understood In The Middle Ages, Was Not Suddenly Abolished In Modern Times.

For 50 Years, Nuclear Power Stations Have Produced Three Products Which Only A Lunatic Could Want: Bomb-explosive Plutonium, Lethal Radioactive Waste And Electricity So Dear It Has To Be Heavily Subsidised. They Leave To Future Generations The Task, And Most Of The Cost, Of Making Safe Sites That Have Been Polluted Half-way To Eternity.