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Uncle Sam

Image: TheDigitalArtist, Pixabay, CC0, caption added

How does the West get away with its pretense of being an alliance of great democracies in which government is the servant of the people? Nowhere in the West, except possibly Hungary and Austria, does government serve the people. Who do the Western governments serve? Washington serves Israel, the military/security complex, Wall Street, the big banks, and the fossil fuel corporations. The entirety of the rest of the West serves Washington.  Read More