The Mandate of Hell: How Not to Change the World

(Before It's News)

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

The United States is slowly hollowing out. The global economy is up for grabs. And the planet’s average temperature rise could mean an almost unimaginable disaster for humanity. But not a single one of these matters came up in any meaningful way in the election campaign. In other words, election 2012 boiled down to little more than a massive and dangerous case of Washington-style denial.

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