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New Texts Out Now: Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail

March 13, 2015

 

Tadween Publishing is proud to announce the release of Too Big ot Fail by Khalil Bendib.

Book Description

Whatever happened to the United States’ much-vaunted post-Cold War “unipolar moment,” when it was not only supposed to be the only superpower left standing, but also one in a position to impose its every whim on the rest of the planet?

  • The economic meltdown of 2008, during which US citizens discovered that they were not too big to fail, but their banks were.
  • The Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, in which the nuclear industry was also too big to fail--let the nuclear chips fall where they may.
  • The melting of the icebergs: the planet is not too big to fail but oil, coal, and automobile corporations are.
  • The so-called “Arab Spring,” in which Arab dictators--most of them vassals of the United States--realized, to their utter consternation, that they were not too big to fail after all, falling like dominoes.


A collection of cartoons by Algerian-American political cartoonist, Khalil Bendib, Too Big To Fail celebrates the epochal paradigm shift that has unfolded over the past few years--beginning with the US economic meltdown of 2008 and ending with the current instability in the Middle East and beyond since the 2011 uprisings--pointing out the absurdity of it all and heralding the light at the end of the tunnel for the oppressed 99% worldwide.