SUBHEAD: What we can learn from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Radio interview of Dmitry Orlov on 05 August 2009 in ClubOrlov
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/08/interview-on-kpfaorg.html
"The Collapse Gap" with Dmitry Orlov, author of "Reinventing Collapse - The Soviet Example and American Prospects". Orlov's repeated travels to Russia throughout the early nineties allowed him to observe the aftermath of the Soviet collapse first-hand.
image above: Boris Yeltsin stands on a defeated tank and address not the USSR but Russia
From http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/few-signs-of-grief-among-russians/2007/04/24/1177180648271.html
Being both a Russian and an American, Dmitry was able to appreciate both the differences and the similarities between the two superpowers. Eventually he came to the conclusion that the United States is going the way of the Soviet Union. His emphasis is on all the things that can still be made to work, and he advocates simply ignoring all that will fall by the wayside.
"Guns & Butter" investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, "Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics" reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state.
You can listen to it here. http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/52976
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