The dark side of Dubai - Middle East, World - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

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Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history.