Neoliberalism's Other, Asiazilla-sized Shoe Finally Drops

[Insert extended geopolitical cackle.]

I've said it before: Tahrir-Zucotti wasn't even the beginning, it was just the overture to the beginning. The overture continued in the form of Gezi, Rio de Janeiro, the Euromaidan, and Jokowi. Nobody could know when, where or how the last act of the overture would transpire But it has come at last, in Hong Kong.

Be afraid, plutocrats. Be very, very afraid. The 7 billion of us who have to work for a living on this planet are using digital tools to unmask you: Wall Street greedocrats, EU bankstercrats, Russian petrocrats, Chinese prince-o-crats, Indian industrocrats. We don't care what national flags you wave at us, we're tired of working harder and harder to make you richer and richer, while we get poorer and poorer.

%!#$ your prisons, pay us.

@$^% your flags, pay us.

 %$#* your excuses, pay us.

Pay us.

Or pay.

Game Shows We'd Like To See

The world needs a game show. Not just any game show, but a game show which properly expresses the admixture of toxic greed, lunatic power-mongering, and generalized fear and loathing typical of dying 21st century empires.

We can call this new game show "Culling The Herd". Its host will be a made-for-video star called MC Overstretch. Its tagline: "Watch dying empires do increasingly stupid things leading to their self-destruction... all in 1080P!"

The outline for Season 1: 

Episode 1. US tries to swallow Iraq. Watch $3 trillion and thousands of lives go up in smoke, generating nothing but civil war and Daesh serial killer scum. Co-hosted by a spokesperson from the YPG and a representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Episode 2. Wall Street tries to swallow the global banking system. Bankstering: the only crime business where failure is punished with lucrative Federal bailouts. Co-hosted by Joseph Stiglitz and William K. Black.

Episode 3. Euroliberalism tries to swallow Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Every failed liberal-era financial idea ever invented... reinvented by neoliberals. Co-hosted by Yanis Varoufakis and James Galbraith.

Episode 4. Russia tries to swallow Ukraine. Watch for the entertaining interviews with Russo-imperialists, proving that all empires in human history have been equally bad: "Uh, NATO CIA same-sex Ukro-fascist purple dragons from Arcturus shot down MH-17, yeah, that's it! What, those 5,000 Russian troops occupying Donbass? That's an elvish lie spread by filthy hobbitses! Gollum... gollum... Er... is this microphone on? ...Bueller...?" Co-hosted by Mustafa Nayem and Myroslava Petsa.

And now, latest of all:

Episode 5. Microsoft tries to swallow Minecraft. Co-hosted by the Minecraft community. Watch everyone's least-favorite fading desktop monopolist find yet another billion-sized money pit to stumble into! Boo and hiss when legions of corporate lawyers start suing 10-year-old modmakers! Cheer wildly when the digital commons transforms Minecraft into a free-to-play codebase!

We've got our popcorn ready. Let the games begin!