The Secret History of Monopoly
by Christopher Ketcham
In Harper’s: a piece about the secret history of Monopoly,
the most popular board game on planet Earth. The intention of its
original inventor was to teach that land monopoly is a great evil. Hey
you geniuses who invest in land: If you wish to succeed in America,
please don’t do any work. Instead you need to speculate in real
estate, wait for society to make your speculation worth something, then
leap about like a clown claiming you’ve worked for a living!
In the American Prospect: http://prospect.org/article/us-out-vermont...as
the Green Mountain fools relate to the rest of the country the facts of
the matter: the Empire is corrupt and insane, the global
corporatocracy is a propaganda network, and someone should stand up.
In
CounterPunch: a new column, Desert Post, in the monthly magazine format
that editor Jeff St. Clair is now putting out. Yes, it comes in the
mail, you can hold it and smell it, it’s made of paper, you can burn it –
thoroughly useful, unlike, say, an iPad app. You’ll have to
subscribe: http://www.easycartsecure.com/CounterPunch/Annual_Subscriptions.html
And in case you wilderness freaks missed it last year, my piece on the decimation of wolf packs in Idaho, “Wolves to the Slaughter,” , also in the American Prospect.
Cheers,
Christopher Ketcham
www.christopherketcham.com
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