Somebody has managed to produce a scientific study to confirm the obvious. Which is fine, because most people need to see a scientific study before they will believe the obvious. So America is an oligarchy and a tool of the elite? And about as far away from having a system of representative government as, say, a shitty little tin-pot regime in South America.
Oh wait. South Americans in fact had genuinely democratic elected governments until recently. The Americans destroyed them though, for the benefit of oligarchs. Nothing if not consistent. Same as they are doing in the Ukraine. Of course in the UK we are above all this sort of shit. We have a monarchy that has no power to do anything except control the establishment class that in turn controls absolutely everything else. It's still an -archy, but classier.
It's Princeton and all so it's safe and approved to read:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gi...s%203-7-14.pdf
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You used to be everything to me
Now you're tired of fighting
In a similar vein: a bit long, but worth muddling through the terrible audio quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DrL...M-zA-6Vwx754Sj
You used to be everything to me
Now you're tired of fighting
By a real journalist who refuses to whore for the western propaganda machine. I wonder what percentage of people are interested or even aware of this escalating crisis and who is responsible for bringing it about? Ever since the west (a collective term for the USA and its lap dogs) broke assurances to Russia that NATO (the NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organisation) would not expand into ex-Soviet states, this crisis has been inevitable. It's all well and good cheering for the fall of the Berlin Wall and liberation from the "Evil Empire", but the irony as the "Good Empire" rolls into the vacuum is always lost. When "they" do it they are evil, when we do it we are on a humanitarian crusade. Seriously though, is there anyone dumb enough to believe it?
Why do we tolerate it? Why don't we do something about the criminal state? Why do we listen to the shit they spout? Why do we tolerate their vile excuses for murder and mayhem? Why do we give them comfort and refuge? We should be hounding these cunts to the ends of the earth and stringing the bastards up. Them and every last cunt who has collaborated with them. And if violence doesn't suit you then ask yourself this - Who claims violence is not the answer? It's the same bastards who use it as a matter of routine. And when was the last time the state granted anything to the people without being threatened by force? We can all sit here and let these bastards get on and start a new war, which we will be expected to fight on their behalf of course. Or as an alternative to using "good" violence to kill their rivals, we could instead use just violence to wipe these warmongering cocksuckers off the face the earth once and for all. Let's not kill Germans or Muslims or Iraqis or Afghans or anyone else the criminal state volunteers us to exterminate. Let's instead focus a righteous fury and genuine humanitarian war on the greedy cowards who start and profit from death and always have done. Before they kill us. They won't have any qualms, we shouldn't either. Not if we want to survive. That really could be a war to end all wars.
In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia
Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world.
Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".
Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.
In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven".
The name of "our" enemy has changed over the years, from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any society independent of western power and occupying strategically useful or resource-rich territory, or merely offering an alternative to US domination. The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All are subjected to a western media campaign of vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...ia-john-pilger
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The latest from the Nazis:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-trial.html
Astonishing. I guess the tireless work to expose paedophiles and other deviants in the upper tiers of the British establishment is ruffling feathers.
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