Says Mr. Chomsky:

"The war against working people should be understood to be a real war. It's a new war, it's an old one. Furthermore, it's a perfectly conscious war everywhere, but specifically in the U.S., a very free country, but one which has a highly class-conscious business class, so you have a lot information about it. They talk; you have their record. They have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don't want anybody else to know it."

Besides that the other day forest industry told to slash 3,600 jobs over the next two years - 2,950 of these are in Finland. This should not come as surprise, for the tone is the same everywhere. But surely business-class knows what it's doing - and yes, it's all for the workers' benefit, of course. And all we wanna be right wingers agree that the course is right.

"The growing power of capital explains many of the economic stories of our day: why Wall Street has the whip hand over corporate performance; why the gap between executive and worker pay has widened to record levels; why even incompetent executives enjoy golden parachutes while high-performing employees can be laid off without apology," writes Michael Hirsh in The New York Times Book Review article "Dollars Without Borders" March 5, p. 6.