21-06-2009, 08:15 AM
Apropos the 'Charting Stocks' piece and Richard Welser's observations, it seems to me that the term 'Democracy' has become just another of those knee-jerk buzz-words designed to enforce compliance with the official western narrative of events - 'NAZI', 'Anti-Semite', 'Holocaust-denier', 'Conspiracy-theorist', 'Terrorist', 'Militant' 'Taliban', 'Al-Qaeda' all have similar utility on the opposite side. A bit like shouting 'Atten-SHUN' to a parade of troops. There's no argument, let alone discussion or debate. You just fall in line or else.
As for western 'democratic standards'. Are we really in any position to lecture others? Rhetorical question that, since I'm sure nobody on this forum needs any lessons in just how phoney western 'Democracy' actually is - as in, for example, Reagan's 'National Endowment for Democracy'. Personally I cannot hear mention of that blood-soaked institution without cringing in shame and yet smiling faux-sincere western politicians invoke it with faux-pride time and time again in a sort of Orwellian parallel universe where in reality almost everything has the exact opposite meaning to that actually implied.
As for western 'democratic standards'. Are we really in any position to lecture others? Rhetorical question that, since I'm sure nobody on this forum needs any lessons in just how phoney western 'Democracy' actually is - as in, for example, Reagan's 'National Endowment for Democracy'. Personally I cannot hear mention of that blood-soaked institution without cringing in shame and yet smiling faux-sincere western politicians invoke it with faux-pride time and time again in a sort of Orwellian parallel universe where in reality almost everything has the exact opposite meaning to that actually implied.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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