Even democracy, enshrined in the charter of the UN, is not an absolute good, in the Chinese view. Sure democracy can be good when a polity works for the common good of the people. But democracy – as in “votocracy” – can also mean lawlessness, mob rule, special interests power grab, and government capture. Democracy can check on governance, but it can also be a façade for criminal leaders to evade their ultimate responsibility.
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CYNTHIA CHUNG—today’s modern Americans have been induced to think of politics like a game of left vs right polarization. This view has successfully blinded the majority of its victims from any understanding of the principal forces of history shaping our present crises and additionally has obscured the role of the oligarchical hereditary power structures which the founding fathers understood to be a source of evil shaping the entire human experience.
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JIMMY DORE SHOW—Samantha Power has had a long, storied and blood-soaked career pushing the United States into wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen. And now the Biden-appointed USAID Director has set her sights on Hungary, a country she believes is just itching for US assistance in propping up the “independent” press and civil society. Which is all just shorthand for laying the groundwork for regime change. Guest host Aaron Maté and America’s Comedian Kurt Metzger note that Hungary under President Victor Orban has not gone along with the Western consensus on the Ukraine War and that no doubt has spurred Power to apply her unique set of skills to the task of bringing Hungary back into the fold.
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NOTE: As a genuinely left-independent blog, we disagree with Craig Murray’s typically liberal “equivalency…
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BRUCE LERRO—The truth was that it was British and Americans who were best at propaganda. It was Bernays who first called propaganda by its real name. He then wisely switched it to “public relations” when he realized propaganda had some nasty political implications which would expose what he was actually doing. Americans disguised their propaganda efforts under euphemistic organizations such as the Committee of Public Information in World War I. In World War II there was The Office of Wartime Information.
