The Real News Network has the interview Black Report: Craziness on Three Continents.  Here is an anti-spoiler alert – the Middle East does not figure in the craziness.

BLACK: Second continent is that President Correa of Ecuador wasn’t available to weigh in on this because he was in Spain dealing with their craziness. So this is the Ibero-Americas conference, in which the prime ministers of Spain and Portugal and the heads of state of Latin American nations get together. And Correa and a number of other of his counterparts tried to convince the Spanish prime minister that the austerity provisions that he’s imposed that have led to Great Depression levels of unemployment were catastrophic disasters.

Here’s the kicker. The prime minister of Spain responded, no, you’re wrong; you don’t understand; we’re following the policies that were so successful in Latin America—austerity. Now, this is hilarious, of course, because, first, he’s telling the Latin Americans they don’t know their own history and he does, and second, of course, the Latin America leaders have so many very strong progressives precisely because they were elected on the promise to fight the Washington consensus, which is the austerity program that was imposed on Latin America and caused so much harm there. So we have an effort by the colonies to try to save the mother country, and instead, the mother country is responding with fictions about the histories of Latin America and telling the Latin American presidents they don’t understand their own histories.

If I didn’t know better, I think I know better, maybe my sister’s claims that the end of the world is coming might be true.