Ruin Reader

A great article/big picture look at recent disasters. A redefining of "apocalypse". Says neoliberal economics led to current "rapacious" state of capitalism, in which the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer by the former strangling the latter. Treats Haiti as a microcosm-like example of what is to come if we continue in this vein. And hey, the author quotes Walt Whitman!